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  Review by demi adejuyigbe 13

  imagine christoph waltz mumbling in anger after getting his ass kicked, printing off black and white photos of people bond knows and taping them up like "oh he's gonna be sooo scared about this." fucking dork. i'm not scared of any man who can work an officejet

  james bond undresses a grieving widow and has sex with her and then after the sex she puts some lingerie on

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  Review by Evan ★★ 29

  Uninteresting. Uneventful. Uninspiring. Under-used Villain. Seriously, Christoph Waltz was completely wasted in this role. Wooden Acting. Boring as shit. Horrible Script. These were just a few of my thoughts after Spectre ended. Dave Bautista was the best part of the movie and he literally says one single word. I mostly enjoyed the set pieces, although they were still underwhelming. The fight between Craig and Bautista was the highlight.

  The theme song "Writings on the Wall" was better than the movie and that song was okay at best.

  Spectre is 2015's biggest disappointment thus far. I really wanted to like this movie, but it was an absolute mess!

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  Review by Matt Singer ★★½ 3

  This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

  If I live to (00)700 years old I will never understand why Sam Mendes et al. decided the right move after Skyfall, a film about whether James Bond deserves a place in the modern world, was to make Spectre, a film about ... whether James Bond deserves a place in the modern world. I’ve loved the Bond franchise my whole life, and Craig is a terrific 007 when he’s allowed to be. But at a certain point, if the creators of these movies feel so uncertain why this guy continues to exist — and in any other franchise the conclusion of this movie would essentially mean he doesn’t exist anymore — doesn’t that, like, say something?

  Stray Thoughts:
  -Building up Moneypenny into…

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  Review by DirkH ★★★★ 15

  So how do you top Skyfalll?

  Well, you don't, nor should you try to, a thing Mendes and his team seem to understand really well.

  I've always been a fan of Craig as Bond, as he (and perhaps Timothy Dalton) comes so very close to the Bond of the novels. Skyfall seemed to be the start of the amalgamation of book Bond and movie Bond, clearly setting a break off point. The result of that budding symbiosis is Spectre, Craig is still Flemming's Bond, but he now walks the halls of the Bond Universe created for the movies. And in the hands of the fantastic Mr. Mendes it has turned out rather well.

  Spectre holds every single aspect a classic…

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  Review by davidehrlich ★★★½ 7

  so many thoughts. so few hours of sleep.

  will dive in next week, but 1st half = yesssss. 2nd half = …that's it?

  all told, it's hard to imagine that we'll ever get another run of Bond movies this good, warts and all.

  all hail Mendes.

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  Review by ScreeningNotes ★★★ 34

  "You are a kite dancing in a hurricane, Mr. Bond."

  The trilogy of Casino Royale, Quantum of Solace, and Skyfall formed a thematic arc for James Bond as a character. Casino Royale finally built him up with both his strengths and his weaknesses; Quantum of Solace broke him down after taking away the one thing he loved; and Skyfall built him up again by directly confronting him with his real weakness (not his fear of loss, but his age). Spectre essentially abandons this development in favor of going all-in on the Bond mythology: not only does it resurrect the famous shadow organization of the film's title, it desperately crams every Bond trope into its padded run time, from women, cars…

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  Review by Will Steele ★★½

  C may stand for careless, but now we also know, 
  Q stands for queer 🏳️‍🌈

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  Review by Josh Lewis ★★★★ 9

  "To liars... and killers... everywhere."
  THE DEAD ARE ALIVE

  Bond's Mad Max movie. Espionage as a dry, hazy (extremely flammable) wasteland—Bond a mutilated, regretful husk wandering the trail of carnage he's left behind. Psychological isolation, questionable impulsiveness and efficient brutalizing of state-sanctioned killing have resulted in a literal haunted house of corpses and repressed feelings; and still, nothing is scarier than forgetting a loved one's face.

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  Review by Den_of_geeks ★★★ 3

  “I’m Mickey Mouse”- James Bond (2015)

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  Review by matt lynch ★★ 8

  JAMES BOND: INTO DARKNESS

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  Review by Will Menaker ★★½ 1

  Bond, Q and M all team up to stop a cabal of human traffickers from creating the "short eyes" global surveillance system which would destroy the democratic freedoms protected by traditional intelligence agencies and their license to execute anyone, anywhere in the world, but do it face to face.

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  Review by SilentDawn ★★★★ 8

  78/100

  The dead are alive in Sam Mendes's Spectre, an ethereal graveyard stroll through James Bond's vast history. Whereas Skyfall was a digital masterpiece setting the past aflame, this Bond installment - the 24th in the series - dives right back into the collective experiences and traumas of Daniel Craig's interpretation, beginning with a cascade of dangling skeletons, walking undead parades, and sensual facades giving way to dazzling spy business. For all the one-take fatigue, Spectre embraces the fragility and spontaneity of the overused idea better than any film in recent memory. Sam Mendes immediately, along with DP Hoyte Van Hoytema, develops a striking visual palette of creamy browns and dusty yellows; evoking a luxurious 35mm throwback instead of furthering…