Just got back from seeing it this afternoon/evening and for the most part it was fantastic, easily better then most of Craig’s films but probably still behind Casino Royal.
The opening sequence was just ‘chef’s kiss’, like I’d probably happily watch that a few times given the chance
In fact the whole film was great till it got to the latter 1/3 which was where I thought it fell off quite a bit. Some of the scenes were amazing to watch, obviously the opening scene, the entire section in Cuba and then the one in the Misty woods were just superb. Loved the call backs to other films as well, in the cars and the musical scores, that Aston Martin V8 Vantage
Anyway, spoilers/questions below,
I get why the main villain wanted to off Blofeld and Mr White at the start, but why did he seemingly want to kill millions of people around the world? He just kind of appears at the start, gets shot, somehow survives, comes back to kill Blofeld, then goes full Dr No and has an entire operation set up ready to go, then decides to off Madeline and her/Bond’s daughter (liked the neat touch when he puts Madeline on the train at the start, when she feels her stomach, gave a small hint which turned out to be right) which leads to Bond’s death/sacrifice on island, once Bond has killed him of course after he comes back just to spite Bond and hopefully kill Madeline. The people rocking up to buy the stuff also vanished into thin air at the end, not even a mention of them once the missiles had been launched. As the film progressed you kind of got the feeling someone wasn’t going to make the end out of Madeline or Bond, it just had a sense of unease, with the villains insurance policy passed over to him earlier you knew that’d either have DNA for one of them inside, there is definitely no coming back from that for this Bond though!The
bionic eye felt very much like the Black Mirror episode ‘entire history of you’.
With a stronger final 1/3 this might have become my favourite Craig era Bond film but sadly it didn’t, still a great film though, thankfully didn’t feel like 2 hours and 43 minutes either! Cant wait to see where they take Bond next, get the feeling it’ll be a mainly new cast for the major recurring roles.