Spectre 007

I watched Spectre last Friday, and read the review on Vox on Saturday and basically, everything I want to say is there. Honestly, I think we have seen it all. How much can action movies impress us these days? If you think about it, action movies revolves only around a few things - pendrives, saving girls, defusing bombs or stopping nuclear warfare. The plot of action movies don't run too far from these themes. When there's nothing much to comment on the plot, we focus on other factors in the movie to compliment. 

Firstly, Bond is known for his 'player' attitude. So basically, this has been screwed up since Casino Royale. Craig had a 'real' love and he's still hung up on her. I think his liquor preference has been addressed elsewhere too. Not forgetting his action skills became more 'human' ever since Craig signed the contract. I'm okay with all of these to be honest. Like all Bond movies, the beginning of the movie can be separated into three parts - the gunshot and blood entrance, viewed through a gun barrel, then comes the opening action scene, and then comes the very sexy introduction of names with a theme song. There were goosebumps-inducing octopi this time, coupled with Sam Smith's Writing's On The Wall. I was okay with the song, but not the octopus. At first it felt artistic, but the octopus didn't go away and it started to get annoying. 

The opening action scene was magnificent - the one where there's a death day parade in Mexico. I liked that, and there was less talking, and it was slightly comedic. After that, it just basically went downhill. I didn't really sink into the movie, and felt like the movie didn't actually hold a proper plot and I kept feeling, has the real conflict of the movie kicked in? The plot was rather simple, which is to stop a kind of global surveillance that takes over the double-O program. I think I have to give Christoph Waltz some credit here. 

Christoph Waltz

I loved this guy's acting since Inglorious Basterds, not forgetting Django Unchained. He is just a natural when taking on a villain role. He speaks calmly and it sounds like a badass. Although, if you watched Spectre, the part when Bond's bomb watch exploded near him, worked against his benefit (the whole scene just made him lose his coolness), but I think overall he did well. What else do I remember about Spectre? Car chase! I loved the car chase. These were the cars used in the movie. My favorite car was used by the villain instead HAHA.

Aston Martin DB10 & Jaguar C-X75

Honestly, I think the car chase action in Spectre did much better than Fast & Furious. It was more logical, exciting, cool, fast, and elegant. About the love story in this movie, it was so superficial that I didn't feel anything at all. He just made a promise to a guy to protect his daughter and suddenly shes the love of his life and he starts being all heroic about it. The destruction of the villain base was impressively short. Just took a gigantic blast and the whole place went down. Since this movie is new and I'm blogging about it, I cant really include screenshots.

Anyway, there was a scene, where Mr.Hinx was introducing himself, and he smacked the previous leader's head on the table. Well, seriously? that move is totally owened by Joker in The Dark Knight. Although this scene in Spectre did not involve a disappearing-pen-magic-trick. This head smash move was pulled off so well by The Joker, I don't think anyone should attempt it again, ever.

Joker's Magic Trick

Also, the ultimatum given by the villain (Christoph Waltz) to Bond was so lame. Save the girl or save yourself? Seriously? It's not even a difficult choice to make. It would be difficult, only if you're the most un-gentlemen and cowardly guy on earth. Again, I shall make a reference to The Dark Knight. Joker's ultimatum for Batman was much much better. Harvey or Rachel. Love or Duty. That's more like it - a tough choice. 

The last thing I'm going to mention about Spectre is, how much alike it is with Totally Spies, the cartoon. If you watched Totally Spies, you would know that, for every mission they get, they are given weapons so specific that it will come in handy only for that mission. Its not like a gun, which is multipurpose, and you can shoot anything, irrelevant of the drama you're stuck in. We are talking about some laser lipstick that cut through doors and it so happen, in that mission they (Totally Spies) would get stuck in a really thick metal-door room, where this laser can cut through it. Kinda same thing happened here. He received a watch-bomb. So happened, he got restrained on a futuristic lobotomy machine, where he could remove his watch and pass it to his girlfriend to slide it towards to villain (but not to throw is at his face) before it explodes. How convenient.

Overall I enjoyed the movie, because I was in a good mood I think. You could read the review on Vox to see the full crucifixion of the movie HAHA.