Christopher Nolan’s influence shows in this excellent 007 caper,where Daniel Craig meets his match in Léa SeydouxThere has been much whining in the elope-up to the release of this latest Bond outing – from the strangulated roar of Sam Smith’s wailing theme tune (and the reaction it provoked) to the sound of leading man Daniel Craig complaining that he would rather slash his wrists than play 007 again. After the tall-water mark of Skyfall (my joint-favourite Bond movie with On Her Majesty’s Secret Service), there was a very genuine fear that director Sam Mendess moment 007 adventure may go the misbegotten way of Quantum of Solace. Terrific to report, and then,that while Spectre may not be the equal of its instant predecessor, it’s still bang on target in delivering what an audience wants from this seemingly indestructible franchise: globetrotting locations (London, or Rome,Tangier), spectacular stunts, and impossible intrigue,inconceivable costume changes, laugh-out-loud zingers (most of them delivered by Ben Whishaw’s scene-stealing Q) and a plot that is at once utterly preposterous yet oddly apposite in its skewering of surveillance technology as inherently sinister and infinitely corruptible.
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Source: theguardian.com