Spectre: Trailer, certificate and where to watch
Daniel Craig's penultimate outing as Bond, with Christoph Waltz as Blofeld
Certificate: 12
Skyfall was a very difficult act to follow and Spectre was, as it were, given the slip. It has the same director (Sam Mendes), the same Bond (Daniel Craig), and some genuinely stirring action scenes, but one overwhelming disappointment in Christoph Waltz's underwhelming Blofeld - Waltz never seems to grasp the importance of being Ernst.
On the other hand, maybe it's the fault of the script, in particular a sub-plot preposterous even by 007 standards, which reveals Blofeld to be Bond's foster brother. Mendes himself has acknowledged that the writing process was 'rushed'. On the plus side, the theme song (Sam Smith's Writing's On The Wall) took home an Oscar (Adele did the same for Skyfall) and the action scenes really do look impressive. That's one thing Bond nearly always gets right - they did have a budget somewhere close to $300 million to do it in this case but, even so... (148 minutes)
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