Spectre (2015)

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	Year of first release: 2015
	Director: Sam Mendes (American Beauty, Skyfall)
	Actors: Daniel Craig (Layer Cake, Cowboys and Aliens), Christoph Waltz (Inglorious Basterds, Django Unchained), Léa Seydoux (Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol, The Grand Budapest Hotel), Andrew Scott (Sherlock TV-series)
	Country: USA, GB
	Genre: Action
	Conditions of visioning: 05.11.2015, Costanera Center Cineplanet, Santiago
Synopsis: Disavowed by his superiors, James Bond goes alone on the hunt of a mysterious organization called Spectre that could be behind several terrorist attacks across the world.
Review: The ten-minute sequence-shot introducing this new Bond adventure in the middle of the Day of the Dead in Mexico City held some good promises: nice atmosphere, good-looking images, fluid motion of Bond and his girl in the midst of a city-wide party... During this scene and the rest of the movie the colors and the tone are in line with the previous Skyfall by the same director (which makes it the first movie in the franchise I think that doesn't fully stand alone but is part of a story arc). We are far from the more classic and actually rather bland Bond of Quantum of Solace for example (I have just decreased its rating in light of the comparison). So we finally see Bond facing the omnipotent criminal organization Spectre and its leader Blofeld, a recurrent enemy in many old Bonds (the introduction of the organization reminded me of a similar story in Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation), everything is more Grim'n'Gritty, Bond doesn't have it as easy as he used to and we get to learn more and more about his dark back-story. All-in-all not so bad but for some reason I didn't manage to get fully involved in the movie in spite of an apparently interesting story. But the worst in Spectre is definitely the relationship of the secret agent with his Bond-girls played by Monica Belluci and Léa Seydoux. It is all too obvious that those two characters are here to satisfy the minimum requirements for a movie in that franchise although it seems like the director could have easily done without, when you see the lack of conviction with which he depicts those relationships. The way Bond takes them to his bed is even ridiculous: one just after the burial of her husband (then she completely disappears from the movie) and the second after an energetic chase ("What do we do now?", the obvious answer lies in bed...). On a more positive note, I have to mention that I like the actors playing M (Fiennes), Q (Ben Whishaw), C (Scott) and MoneyPenny (Naomie Harris).
Rating: 5 /10