Movie of the Week: Spectre

[jacey]

16th December 2015

Another outing for James Bond which I avoided for several weeks because my cinebuddy, H, saw it with her husband and said the overall volume was WAY TOO LOUD and the whole thing wasn't as good as Skyfall. Eventually, however, it was a slack week for new movies, so we went to see it. (H for the second time.) Glad to say that at Wakefield the overall volume was not too loud, so it must have been a quirk of the cinema H saw it in (Sheffield), however she was right about it being not as good as Skyfall, which i think was the best bond movie in years, largely due to the onscreen chemistry between Bond and M, Daniel Craig and Judy Dench.

Dench's M is still running the show in this one, despite her shoes having been filled by Ralph Fiennes, having given Bond a lead to follow which leads him to someone from his childhood who has long had it in for him. Sadly that required a lot of suspension of disbelief to get past the plot holes and I didn't quite make it, but it delivered the usual Bondish action of chases (car and foot) and ingenious escapes. Q and M actually got some protagging to do, which was interesting. But the villain, supposedly a supervillain, was lacking in general onscreen menace.