They said that it is absolutely tremendous that the Guinness World Records have recognized his work in the latest Bond film.
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In a role that will go down as one of the best Bond villains, Christoph Waltz knocks it out of the park.
If that is true, he goes out in spectacular fashion and while this film doesn’t reach the near-perfect heights of “Skyfall”, it still remains an enjoyable effort most of the time.
“Spectre”, the 24th James Bond film, looks expensive enough. Daniel Craig continues to show why he is such a great James Bond. Despite this, there are more jokes than there have been in the other recent films, with more cheesiness and old-school Bond, but in the misogynistic jerk kind of way opposed to good-natured humor.
The writers do this by tapping into Bond’s past, going as far as into his childhood, something that isn’t done too often in most of the previous films.
Daniel Craig was still a decent Bond, as he portrayed him as a tougher and livelier individual in this film.
Bond, it appears, was not supposed to be in Mexico City disobeying orders from M, now played by Ralph Fiennes.
All the familiar tropes of a James Bond film are present, meet with Q, get a toy, ignore your boss’ orders, get the girls, have a martini, etc. Seydoux’s character, while being the love interest for Bond, also is competent in fighting, and is able to hold her own, even saving Bond at one point. There was a lot of potential for this character to have greater depth and interest, especially considering the complexity of “Skyfall’s” villain Silva (Javier Bardem).
By the time someone starts a clock (and yes, director Sam Mendes makes sure there are a couple of them), he’s in a few form of transportation trying to get to the mastermind behind a secret network determined to control everything on earth. They said, ‘This is what I do.’ I admire that, as it takes real strength.
However, despite clocking in at only five minutes longer than the superior Skyfall, it feels like it drags on longer than Gone With The Wind.
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The steadying force in the storm takes the form of Madeleine Swann (Lea Seydoux), who proves herself to be anything but a damsel in distress as she helps Bond pursue their common enemy – a sinister, global organisation helmed by Waltz as Oberhauser.
