It made zero sense to put the gun barrel at the end of the film in the last two Craig movies. At least in Casino Royale, it was his "origin" story about how he became a 00 agent, so incorporating the gun barrel as a lead-in to the credits (rather than have it after the MGM logo) was a cool idea that made sense.
I finally saw this, Saturday night. Spoiler alert if you haven’t and don’t want to be spoiled
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mu4kFqmv3RM
Honest trailer pretty well nails it
Gun Barrel at the front but it was crappy compared to the Bronson era, looked half-a**ed.
The song was ok but I already don’t remember it. Previous 3 Craig films had good catchy songs.
This was just dull....I don’t know if it’s objectively the worst Bond film but given the choice right now I would watch any other one rather than rematch it. Even QOS which didn’t even feel like a Bond movie. I didn’t really loathe it so much while watching it, it held my interest and was better than watching the Cubs lose but thinking about it after and how much money they spent making it and how little rewatchability it has...
The action was good and I liked Dave Bautista, first notable henchman since that blond German a-hole and his mentor in TND.
The plot was just...asinine, all set in motion by a cryptic video tape left behind by Dench. The attempt to tie it into the previous Craig movies was stupid. If this is Spectre looming over everything then what the hell was “Quantum”, a subsidiary evil organization, the JV league?
Blowsfeld, terrible, give me that creepy young Soros from QOS. What’s the point? It’s twice as dumb as making Benedict Cucumberpatch “Kahn”. So he’s Bond’s quasi-step brother and has it in for him cause he was jealous his daddy liked him better, seriously?
The torture scene was.....”these needles will make you forgot the faces of everyone you know” WTF?
The ending was very stupid, and this Blowsfeld dude is so OCD wacko when it comes to “torturing” Bond (to the point of printing out cut outs of bonds face and sticking them on those target practice sheets) that I question how the hell he was able to found this super powerful organization.
The whole “intelligence” tie-in/subplot and the evil British dude was really stupid. Ralph Finesses disappointed as M. I liked Black Moneypenny in this but since she banged Bond last time there was no sexual tension.
This new Q seems ambiguously gay, but the rest of the movie was so lousy he was actually one of the better parts of it.
The French chick was hot, but had no chemistry with Bond, Olga had more and he didn’t even bang her. And she was underdeveloped to point that it felt weird that they decided that they love each other.
Monica B is sadly over the hill, and her scene with Bond seemed like a rape about to happen right up until she kissed him back. Creepy.
Craig looked bored as hell throughout. Blame the director for that? Oddly enough he’s been in role now for such a period of time that it finally at least feels like I’m watching James Bond.
All in all, lame, if you’re going to the trouble of making a movie, do better than this.
I question the future of the franchise.