Spectre (IMAX)

Let me start off this review by saying that I'm a huge fan of Daniel Craig as Bond and of the last movie Skyfall. Hell, Skyfall was in my top ten favorite movies of that year. So I was very excited for Spectre, despite the not so great reviews. I'm sorry to say that as I was leaving the theater, I couldn't help but feel disappointed. Some of the movie was very good. But some of it was terrible. 

The movie takes place not long after the events of Skyfall. By the way, I wouldn't say you have to see Skyfall in order to see this. You might be a little confused at times but here they do a decent job of recapping things. This time around, Bond uncovers a cryptic message that leads him to discover the sinister organization known as Spectre. Meanwhile M (Ralph Fiennes) is struggling to keep MI-6 going despite political forces wanting to shut it down. 

The first maybe two thirds of the movie were actually pretty good. If you go into this expecting another Skyfall then you'll be disappointed. It's more of a funny, dumb (but still bad ass) action type of Bond but I was completely okay with that. However, the last third was such a mess. At least it was laughably bad though so I had a good time making fun of it. 

What really pissed me off was what they did with Christoph Waltz as Oberhausen. As usual, he does an amazing job. But I feel like he was wasted here. He was the perfect choice to play a Bond villain and when it's revealed what his motives are I was like, Are you kidding me?? That's it?

And don't even get me started on th theme song by Sam Smith. I have nothing against him but that song fucking sucked. It pales in comparison to the powerful song Adele did for Skyfall. I still get chills whenever I hear it. 

I would normally say wait til this comes to Netflix but the movies looks gorgeous on an IMAX screen and worth paying the extra money for. 

I really can only recommend this movie if you're a fan of James Bond and are curious to see how this plays out. This was Daniel Craig's last time as Bond. It's kind of sad that this is how it ends. 

My Rating: 6/10