Spectre is sloppier than other recent Bonds, but it also feels like it's exhausted the idea that fueled the franchise's relaunch -- darker and more realistic can only last so long when it's paired with a rotating cast of Bond girls and supervillains.
Spectre
The Dead Are Alive.
2015 · 2h 28m · PG-13
Action, Adventure, Thriller
Directed by
Sam Mendes
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Spectre
Overview
A cryptic message from Bond’s past sends him on a trail to uncover a sinister organization. While M battles political forces to keep the secret service alive, Bond peels back the layers of deceit to reveal the terrible truth behind SPECTRE.
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Top critics, in their words
I regard it as a ravishing exercise in near-despair, with Bond beset by the suspicion that, were he to desist, both his character and his cause would be unmasked as a void. Killing is his living, and his proof of life.
Dazzles early and fizzles late...Bond is not Batman; he does not need an origin story.
There are signs of Bond bloat within many of the action sequences - it must be hard to trim such extravagant footage - but they are at least partly overcome by an increase in levity.
If one of the most successful and long-running franchises in movie history wants to keep pumping, it's once again time to change the formula.
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