Hi friends this is an experiment to review
the 24th BOND movie from my point of view.
Being a hard core fan of Bond movies I was literally
waiting for the release of this, after having the disappointment of watching
the SKYFALL (even though it was a hit worldwide and gave the calibre to EON Productions
to do SPECTRE) I was pretty hopeful about SPECTRE. But I realised that soul of
James bond cannot be reinvented without Ian Fleming, the movie horribly lags
from the story point of view. The Movie SPECTRE has all the elements Ian
Fleming created for James Bond including SPECTRE (SPecial Executive for
Counter-intelligence, Terrorism, Revenge, and Extortion) but miss the soul somewhere,
I can say that it has Milk, water, tea powder and sugar but it's not tea.
The movie is based on the final command
James received from ex- M (Judi Dench) which leads him to the existence of SPECTRE
organization and its roots.
From my point of view it’s a quiet
convincing movie and entertainer but it lags the bond element but has some
extra element which is borrowed from spy series like Mission Impossible, Jack
Bourn etc. The problem is these elements are not there in the DNA of character
James bond.
I should consider this movie as a mix of many
Bond movies, Mission Impossible movies and Jason Bourne Movies, and NDTV
reports that Pierce Brosnan ("SPECTRE is neither fish nor fowl. It's neither Bond nor
Bourne. Am I in a Bond movie? Not in a Bond movie? But Daniel, in the fourth
go-round, has ownership of it. He had a nice looseness to him,"). The movie has some fight scenes exactly copied from earlier bond
movie - live and let die the only thing which we missed is the mechanical arm
of tee hee. It has either been a fashion now a day that Spy agencies are facing
shutdown orders from the government and an agent recovering the name and fame
of the department and has already seen many movies like MI-ghost protocol. The personal
connection of the villain with James also surprised me as I don’t remember any
such thing in previous bond movies. As far as I understand SPECTRE is conceived
as different entity and James has to confront SPECTRE as a part of mission. The
movie lags in terms of the fancy futuristic technologies as well, for which the
JB movies are well known. The only thing we go to see is some minor
modifications in AM DB10 and the Omega watch.
Now I should say what did like about the
movie SPECTRE. First of all I personally like SPCTURE as it is the right enemy
for Mi6, secondly my personal favourites of bonds are Roger Moore, Pierce
Brosnan and Sean Connery, like my favourite villains is Donald Pleasence and Adolfo
Celi guess what the new Villain resembles him too much and the third thing is
Daniel Criag as James Bond, I should this the first movie of Daniel Criag succeeded
as He had that oo7 feel in this movie unlike Sky fall or predecessors. I also liked
the way they have handled the female counter part (Dr. Madeleine Swann - Léa
Seydoux) of Bond and she is absolutely stunning in the silver outfit on the
train, sorry in the train - we have different meaning for "On a
train" in Bond movies :P . BTW being a fan of SHERLOCK it will be
injustice if I don't mention Mr. Andew Scott who did a nice role in SPECTRE but
I doubt it his best.
Bottom line: All together SPECTRE is a
quite Convincing SPY movie and worth watch I, should say. But Bond fans I am
sorry you may get disappointed except the performance of Daniel Craig, because
we have already had many BOND feasts like You only live twice, World is not enough,
Live and let die, Die another day, Doctor No, etc. However I recommend watching
this movie as its worth watching.
Rating: -
My rating as a movie 8.5/10 My rating as a
oo7 movie 6/10
IMDB :- 7.2
Rotten tomatoes :- 6.4 Average audience score
3.6/5
Bookmyshow:- 8.7
