Spectre

Live and Let Die?

So I saw the latest Bond-film yesterday at the cinemas and I thought it was okay for a Bond-film or even an action movie. Apparently the reviewers are on another side, but then again, it's not perfect. Some complains about the chase scenes, some about the call-backs to the pre-Craig films. My complaints lie in that the film was pretty blurry at times, not the chase scenes, but perspective shots with a character in the foreground or background. To often and obscured some scenes. And then the standard intro song was bleh, I can't now recall it and that is a problem with a lot of the modern Bond movies, they don't have great songs or even great music at all. Of the Craig-songs I must say Quantum of Solace have a great track, but apparently I'm alone on that, it like the Eurovision all over. Really miss John Barry's score for the films since he knew how to use the main themes and tracks to really push a scene to the limit.

Other problem with the movie is a plot hole to me. So it begins in Mexico as 007 are hunting an assassin for Judy Dench dying wish. He goes to the funeral in Rome and the widow tells him about this meeting with the biggest villains in the world. There we find out about a scheme to take global control of all the worlds intelligence agencies and MI6 are one target as it is joined together with MI5 and are pushed to be a part of the 9 Eyes organisation including members of South Africa and... China? Heres the problem. I gather it's a collect information and share information collectively. Now why would western democracies join together with the Chinese? Apparently someone mentioned G8 and South Africa which would include Russia? Why? It doesn't make sense, we have enough problems and mistrust with sharing information and spying on democracies between EU and USA and why then would we give our information (which includes who oppose the autocratic regimes of Russia and China), why give away our intelligence network? The film tries to establish terrorists forcing the governments hands, but I don't buy it.

That's my main complaints about the movie. For Bond-lovers out there you can always quiz yourself if you can get the call-backs. Heres some of those I found so potential spoilers. Mexico felt like a Live and Let Die segment. Bond was gonna be replaced by 009 although the other movies seemed to push for 008. 009 was the clown in the Octopussy opening and the agent shooting Renard, but not killing him in The World Is Not Enough. The clinic in the Alps is clearly a reference to Blofelds clinic in Her Majesties Secret Service. They travel to Tengir which was the location for several scenes in Living Daylights. The train scene felt like the Orient Express from Istanbul in From Russia with Love. The compound in the desert was at a place looking like a volcano reminding of of Blofelds lair in You Only Live Twice and big spoilers Ernst Stavro Blofeld is in this movie with his white cat... the film is called SPECTRA so what did you expect? To me the torture chair just at the beginning reminded me of the speed tester in Moonraker. As they escaped the blown up MI6 complex they took a boat looking like the one Pierce Brosnan hunted the assassins in the World is Not Enough. These I found, I didn't mention other Craig movies and Blofeld is technically all Spectre movies, but what's the point pointing that out? 

I'm guessing next movie I will see at the cinema will be the new Star Wars movie. Just one and a half month left.