

He evades his superiors while he chases the villain and romances the daughter of his former adversary Mr. Bond is a rogue agent (isn’t he always) who gets his double O status suspended after he’s criticized for blowing up the building in Mexico City. It uses every plot device that made the franchise famous, but it dresses up the stereotypes with only the kind of flash that a $250 million film allows. Spectre is a great Bond film, but it cannot be called original. He’s so likable that you almost forget he murders dangerous people for the Queen. However, he plays Bond with more humanity than Connery, Bronson, Dalton or Moore. Although Ian Fleming’s novels and previous Bond films never hid 007’s talent for killing and causing mayhem, Spectre highlights Bond as being an assassin, and the word keeps popping up throughout the film.Īssassins are usually associated with the evil side, but Bond is not ashamed of being a hired government killer who defends the crown and saves the world at the same time. Craig is always confident and believable whether he’s examining classified images on a rugged tablet, saving his love interest from psychopaths, or resisting painful torture from his nemesis. In Spectre, Daniel Craig is a killing machine his death count lingers near the Rambo total, but he does it with more style than less talented actors. The helicopter stunt is on a higher level of complexity than previous Bond movies, and it’s more exciting than any scene from the Mission Impossible franchise. Bond tackles him when he tries to escape in a helicopter, and the two wrestle and fight while the helicopter spirals towards the jubilant crowd below. After Bond’s bullet hits the terrorists’ explosives, the building collapses, but the villain gets away. Bond pursues a terrorist, Marco Sciarra, through the crowded streets and eventually follows him to a downtown building. The film opens in Mexico City during the Day of the Dead celebration. Spectre’s stunts are some of the most impressive of the series, and Daniel Craig (Bond) rarely seems able to take a breath after he’s thrown around by Dave Bautista or attacked by twenty black-suited men with submachine guns. Unlike Skyfall, it does not slow down for sadness or melodrama, but it pauses for a second then surges forward with high-energy action scenes. Spectre is a modern take on James Bond’s famous clichés and plot conventions. The follow-up to Skyfall, regarded as one of the finest Bond films ever made, is a much different film than its predecessor.
