Spectre is one of the most expensive movies ever made. With a budget of $245M, it has brought in approximately $176M over the last 4 weekends here in the US and grossed $750M worldwide. After all is said and done, Spectre needed to gross $640M to break even. A reported $34M was spent just on the destruction of expensive cars during the making of this 24th James Bond movie. Add Daniel’s salary of $24M, making him the highest paid Bond (which doesn’t include endorsements), in the history of the 007 franchise. Now add around $100M for promotions, plus with all the other staff, actors and employee salaries, one can see how the price tag escalated so high.
So with that said, lets talk about the movie. The plot features James Bond’s first encounter with the global criminal organization called Spectre. Also, several characters, including M, Q and Eve Moneypenny return, with the new additions of Léa Seydoux as Dr. Madeleine Swann, Dave Bautista as Mr. Hinx, Andrew Scott as Max Denbigh and Monica Bellucci as Lucia Sciarra. Spectre opens in Mexico City with 007 on an unofficial mission ordered by the former M (Judy Dench). Eventually, Bond ends up in Rome where he learns about Spectre. Things get pretty complicated and very dangerous as Bond finds himself without backup, as his division has been dissolved by the current M’s new boss, C, because he deems “00” section outdated. In the meanwhile, Spectre turns out to be a sinister organization headed up by the ultimate villain, Ernst Stavro Brofeld, played by Christoph Waltz. The story is complex, the action is intense and the cast is brilliant. However, I found Spectre to be quite different from most of the Bond stories. It seemed like something was missing. Somehow I think the absence of Judy Dench and her nurturing personality made Bond seem noticeably alone and a little uncertain of himself — not the overall confident ladies man I’m use to seeing. Pierce Brosnan expressed that this Bond film seemed weak and lack luster. While I thought the story was solid, I have to agree with Pierces’ opinion. Check it out, it’s an endless challenge of surprises, twist and turns. It will keep you entertained all the way to the end.
[SPECTRE is nominated for Original Song]
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Everytime a Bond movie is released I am looking forward to it. I thoroughly enjoyed Spectre and like how the movies have returned to a closer similarity to the original character in the books. I had found that the movies were losing class including characters like jaws in the Live and Let Die era, great song, weak Bond movie. I think many people stay home and upload movies and it takes a big budget movie to draw many people to the theatre now. Spectre is all that plus. Good post, thanks for your analysis. I miss Judy Dench and the original Q as well.
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I agree — Ralph Fiennes doesn’t have the repport that Judy Dench had with Craig Daniels. Oh Well, you know what they about change, it’s inevitable! That doesn’t mean it has to be good! As a matter of fact, this may be Craig’s last or next to last 007. Thanks for stopping by and checking out my critiques. More to come shortly. I’m currently working on Mockingjay Part 2 and Trumbo.
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