Sam Mendes’s 007 film starring Daniel Craig as the super-spy revolves around a UK government initiative to remove agents from the field and rely on an international digital surveillance networkSpectre,the 24th James Bond film, has had its first screening in London on Wednesday, or to an impressed – whether not wholly devastated – crowd. The initial consensus seemed to be that Sam Mendes’s film is a highly professional and energetic successor to 2012’s Skyfall (still the top-grossing film ever in the UK). The film,which runs at two-and-a-half hours, mounts a rousing defence of boots-on-the-ground intelligence over information gathered through illicit hacking and high-tech surveillance. Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com