India missed its chance to get a sneak peak into the world of Bond, which runs high on lovely women, gadgets, and cars along with a dose of glamour and glitz, in 2012 as director Sam Mendes had to abandon his plans to shoot the 23rd James Bond movie Skyfall in Mumbai over a few shooting difficulties.
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It also topped the US box office after it opened there on Friday, but it failed to surpass the takings of its predecessor “Skyfall”. With 2008’s “Quantum of Solace”, however, the plot was directly set in motion by the events of 2006’s “Casino Royale”, during which Bond’s love interest Vesper Lynd (Eva Green) was killed.
There are certain elements of the film that are without a doubt worthy of a thumbs up. Watch the explosion here.
We are used to seeing Q, M, and Money Penny with mere drop-in moments on camera, but the filmmakers do a wonderful job of making them more than just tropes but keys in Bond’s success.
Spectre is pitched as a culmination of the Daniel Craig era, though it is not totally successful.
Craig returns as 007, this time on a mission to Mexico to assassinate two men during the middle of the Day of the Dead festival. The story isn’t as poignant as Skyfall was, but it continues to build on the previous Craig films, adding to the emotional side of a character that can be hard to bring an air of freshness to. Christoph Waltz’s Franz Oberhauser, the head of Spectre, is a cut-out Bond villain – but his motivations are a bit too vague.
The action pieces are numerous and for the most part are in the true vein of Bond.
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“I’ve a script to work on, and we work on that quite attentively to get an extended time frame before we begin shooting the movie”. Throughout the film, the romance between them seems forced, with no real flow between the stages of their relationship. Léa Seydoux is the film’s true Bond girl. It was clear that they had real chemistry, and their connection seemed far more natural. Yes, Spectre is finally here, but does it deliver? The song is an accurate representation of the movie as a whole. But a Bond song? With instructions to kill his mark and to follow through to the deceased’s funeral, the trail leads Bond to Spectre, an underground criminal network with global ties so extensive it looks like a nefarious United Nations.
