Five things we loved about ‘Spectre’ – and five things we really didn’t
Bond is back, but is he back on form?
It’s hard to recall a time when the world was so fired up, so eager, so damn ready for a new James Bond adventure. ‘Skyfall’ was the franchise’s most successful entry ever (and the biggest film of all time at the UK box office), scoring five-star reviews and even a Bafta win for Best British Film. Three years later, can ‘Spectre’ possibly hope to live up to that level of hype? We've seen it, and it's a case of yes – and no…
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Spectre
Well, this certainly feels like a full stop. Daniel Craig has been slippery and circumspect when asked if ‘Spectre’ will be his final outing as James Bond. From both the tone and content of ‘Spectre’, we’d guess this could be his swansong: this is a film that gathers all the great – and some of the not-so-great – things about the three previous films in the Craig-as-Bond cycle into one rousing, spectacular, scattershot and somewhat overextended victory lap.