Screenplay: John Logan, Neal Purvis, Robert Wade; Jez Butterworth
Story: John Logan, Neal Purvis; Robert Wade.
Starring: Daniel Craig, Christoph Waltz, Léa Seydoux, Monica Bellucci and Naomie Harris.
An entertaining Bond classic with great acting, brilliant cinematography (Hoyte van Hoytema) and a neat story.
This is the second Bond film directed by Sam Mendes, Skyfall being the first. I found SPECTRE to be the more entertaining.
Bond’s childhood is once again the subject of this movie, his upbringing drawing Bond into the world of SPECTRE and its world domination through Orwell’s nightmare – Big Brother watching us all.
Information is power, and M wasn’t having any of it – indeed! Yes, a classic – Bond battling the hi-tech villain, Oberhauser (Christoph Waltz), the Bond girls, with Monica Bellucci still such an elegant, beautiful woman. And I just loved the car, an Aston Martin DB10, yum, yum.
There was a quiet section where I then noticed the young teen kicking the back of my seat, and then the young guy next to me chewing his fingers off… It’s a long movie for some (2 hours 30 mins), as are all the Bond films. But then it was back to the action and I was absorbed again. ‘You’re like a Kite dancing in a hurricane’, is one piece of dialogue that stuck in mind.
There’s certainly a formula to the Bond films, but a successful formula making SPECTRE an entertaining movie, shown with a wry sense of humour.
And you’ve just gotta love the sincere look of Daniel Craig as Bond.
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With a background in creative writing, photography, psychology and neuroscience, I’ll be focusing on dialogue, what makes a great story, if the film has beautiful creative cinematography, the soundtrack and any movie that successfully scratches the surface of our existence.
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Grad Dip Creative Arts and
Post Grad Dip in Creative Writing.
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2 thoughts on “SPECTRE”
I fell asleep during the first half unfortunately lol.
I fell asleep during the first half unfortunately lol.
Tee hee… That opening scene should have kept you up for at least half the movie!