Spectre

Saw Spectre on Monday, it was fun, but not as good as the other entries in the series, Spectre attempts to tie evens from the rest of the movies together as a sort of overarching plot to show how skilled and influential the villain is, but it just didn't succeed in making me believe it. I wasn't intimidated or charmed by him, and since I couldn't be overwhelmed by the actors personality, I didn't have a lot distracting me from how utterly ridiculous every action he takes in the movie is.

The rest of the cast does perfectly fine, I like Daniel Craig's take on Bond, it's basically the same Bond we've seen for fifty years or whatever now, the drinking, the womanizing, the life of murder, but played perfectly straight and, and this is the important part, not treated like a good thing. Bond is an utterly broken human being and he knows it, amazingly competent but completely aware that his every action takes him farther away from being a functioning member of society, which shouldn't be a problem but one theme that has held up over Craig's run in these movies is Bond's slow realization that he actually wants to stop, to learn how to be human and to trust, or even love, possibly for the first time.
He keeps failing of course, his sense of duty and the paranoia of a lifetime have made it nearly impossible to get out of the life, so much so that even when he tries, I get the sense that he isn't trying very hard.

Of course, this is a lot of inference, these new films are grittier and more realistic in tone than the previous entries, but they are still Bond films, with all the silly action, witty dialogue and impressive set pieces that implies, but I like the subtext even so.

On that note Specter delivers, but only partially, like I said a fun movie, but a villain that didn't quite sit right with me, and an ending I am not sure the film earned.