8/4/2023 0 Comments Spectre film cat![]() MPs aligned to the wing are angry at sharp increases in immigration figures that are due to be announced on Thursday and also the handling of a separate ethics row involving Suella Braverman, the home secretary and right-wing standard bearer. The whiff of scandal attached to Mr Johnson has returned at a particularly bad time for the current prime minister, Rishi Sunak, as he tries to smooth over relations with the restless right wing of his party. A fresh row has broken out in the Conservative Party over new allegations of Covid lockdown breaches by the former prime minister, while the government has also been threatened with legal action by its own official Covid inquiry for withholding Mr Johnson’s WhatsApp messages and diaries. Whereas the Merovingian was obsessed with cause and effect, Franz Oberhauser is obsessed with another kind of cause and effect when he tortures Bond.Boris Johnson may be in the US this week, but his shadow has been cast long over Westminster. But the calm composure of Franz Oberhauser reminds me exactly of the Merovingian from The Matrix Reloaded. Earlier in the movie, Lucia Sciarra warns Bond that the members of Spectre are extremely dangerous and have no mercy. How do the villains rate? Well some scenes involving Mr Hinx and Franz Oberhauser border on horror and are difficult to watch without excessive grimacing. Another out-of-character scene? Yes, and completely unsatisfying. Instead, James says he has better things to do and runs off with Madeleine into the night. At the end of the film, James has the opportunity to kill his life-long enemy (Franz Oberhauser) but chooses not to do so. ![]() We are told that James has a licence to kill but that he also chooses who not to kill. There are a couple of quirky humourous scenes but they don't last long enough. Maybe that's why the mood of the film is always so serious. In Spectre, Bond is represented more as an assassin. There's no passion, romance, or pleasure depicted in the sex scenes. Perhaps she's tired of the fantasy? These are just some of the scenes that are so out of character. When Bond rings Moneypenny and hears there's someone else in her bed, he gets a bit jealous! Moneypenny literally tells Bond to get a life. Ultimately one gets the feeling that women are just an adjunct in this film. She lies down on the bed and says "where are you going?" as he walks straight past her on his way to spy on some bad guys in another building. Bond is quick to tell the barman to "skip the middleman" and throw it down the toilet.ĭuring the opening scenes Bond walks into the bedroom of a hotel with a dark-haired beauty. Instead the barman at the medical clinic tells him they don't serve alcohol and offers him a large probotic health drink instead. The writers of the film even deny their hero his obligatory martini. ![]() Sure, Daniel Craig looks oh so dapper in his stylish suits and fancy cars, but where is the charm and sexiness that Bond typically exudes? Where is the suave, sophisicated Bond? Not here! Instead we see Bond swig vodka straight from a bottle, while his enemy's well-mannered henchmen offer Bond and Madeleine champagne in an oasis in the desert. Just when we realise that this cat and mouse action movie is losing the plot completely, James Bond points a gun to a mouse and asks "Who sent you? Who do you work for?" (Sigh of disappointment) Whereas the bad guys use the latest technology to obtain all the information they need, Bond is left to find the information he needs the old-fashioned way - through seduction risking his life and relying on Q and Moneypenny's computer/research skills. I also found the plot to be convoluted as Bond races around the world to find one bad guy after another. For example: Austin Powers (the scene with the boardroom of evil villians), Divergent (the scene with the long fall to a trampoline in a derelict building), attire reminiscent of Casablanca in the train scene, etc. ![]() Honestly it felt like I was watching a mishmash of so many other films. Spectre (2015) is the twenty-fourth James Bond film starring Daniel Craig (in his fourth performance) as James Bond, Even with a budget of around $245 million, the film only won awards for best original song "Writing's on the Wall" (Sam Smith & Jimmy Napes), which was supposedly written in less than half an hour! The lack of awards hints that the movie itself is lacking in so many areas. ![]()
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