![]() ![]() This is an extremely chaste Bond movie, reminiscent of the two Timothy Dalton outings. The only skin in this movie is during the opening credits. We see the start of the sexy times and then we zoom ahead to the hour or the morning after. Ben Whishaw and Daniel Craig - SPECTRE © 2015 Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios Inc.ĭon’t expect to see any skin (crushing for those of us looking forward to Daniel Craig being naked or close to again) or really any sex. There are a lot less gadgets for Bond in this one, though there are some humorous nods to former stunts from the Bonds Who Came Before. I particularly liked the opening scene in Mexico City during the Day of the Dead festival. The acting is all good, and I must say that I’m becoming a huge Dave Bautista fangirl, because he’s great in this movie, just like he’s been in all his movies. Along the way to discovering just what SPECTRE is (sort of) and identifying the Big Bad (Christoph Waltz), Bond also finds yet another woman to fall in love with and have to save and protect, Madeleine Swann (Lea Seydoux). Because Bond, as we’ve learned, is never wrong. Bond is grounded but of course he still gets Q (Ben Whishaw) and Moneypenny (Naomie Harris) to help him out, and even M (Ralph Fiennes) comes around after a while. ![]() We don’t find out why Bond is breaking these particular rules until the movie is well underway and after he’s romanced Lucia (Monica Bellucci, severely deglamorized and portraying the first age-appropriate pairing for Bond in, possibly, ever – but sadly, she’s not in the movie long), whose husband he killed for “reasons”. Daniel Craig - SPECTRE © 2015 Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios Inc. SPECTRE takes place shortly after the events of Skyfall, with MI6 in shambles, a new money cruncher type, Max aka C (Andrew Scott), taking over and looking to get rid of the 00’s, and Bond off doing Bond things – breaking the rules to save the day. In SPECTRE, Daniel Craig’s fourth outing as Bond and the fourth film of the “new” Bond, we’re seeing what appears to be a final act story arc for the character. We started with Bond in the beginning, as if all the Bonds before were in an alternate universe, not just the same characters in different skin. Starting with Casino Royale, the franchise was rebooted in a way it hadn’t been before. Bond was sexist, and then he was funny, and then he was soulful, and then he was smooth. Bond got long in the tooth often and then was replaced with a younger man who still had gone through all that his predecessors had (with a startling ability to forget just who and what the Big Bad was). ![]() Bond is all that kept MGM afloat for a long time. As a character he’s been around a long time and been played by a variety of actors. The Bond franchise is one of the most recognized worldwide movie brands. As long as the spy movie entertains, we’re willing to believe that the best spy in the world shares his real name 24/7 with good guys and bad buys alike. And therefore, we go into spy movies with our disbelief fully suspended. However, barring a few exceptions, watching dull people do not much isn’t exciting. They also can’t be blowing up cities and monuments and such in their regular day-to-day jobs. Spies have to be dull and blend in, be the people you don’t even realize you see. No real spy is so gorgeous that every woman he sees will rip her clothes off to be with him. True Confession 2: Spy movies are, at their cores, ridiculous. And James Bond is “the” spy – it’s easy to look at almost any spy story or character of the past 50 years and connect their dots easily back to Bond. I like them when they follow the typical formula, and I like them when they subvert their formula. ![]()
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