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For me it was a total lack of character development for the villains

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The biggest flaw in Spectre is that the creators didn't leave the lens caps on for all the cameras.

They had HOW long to come up w/ something better than that boring dreck? Craig looked as motivated as my Grandmother would be to climb atop the Eiffel Tower. The chase scenes were uninspired and the fight scenes were quite stupid and unconvincing.

Blofeld was as intimidating in this as Bardem was as a simpering "Mama's Boy" in Skyfall. I forget the actress who plays the Bond girl in this, but everything I've seen her in she conveys as much warmth and emotion as a snow-covered cinder block.

The beginning sequence heralds the bland awfulness to follow. "Let's have this one begin in...(throws dart at wall map)...Mexico, yeah sounds good. We'll have Bond topple a building thanks to a single bullet." "Perfect. Let's dangle him from a helicopter above a crowd, that's only been done a thousand times in countless forgettable action films so far." "Drive a wingless plane like a Land Rover."

And on and on and on to a plodding end, whence Bond shoots down another helicopter w/ his last bullet from a distance of just under one Time Zone. The world's most accurate pistol vs. the world's slowest moving helicopter. Who will win? I'm on pins and needles.

Everyone seems bored in this, as bored as I felt fairly quickly. The Quantum group (one arm of SPECTRE) seemed a LOT more formidable and calculating and downright evil compared to the faceless, nodding heads around that SPECTRE table. Like a bunch of politicians wondering if Michael Scott went to Alfredo's Pizza Cafe or Pizza by Alfredo...sadly we all know "Spectre" is a hot circle of boredom.

There are so many things wrong with Spectre but as you asked for one and it hasn't been mentioned yet.

The score.

I really like Thomas Newman's score for Skyfall and think it really suited the film. I didn't like it enough to want to hear it a second time though.

At times in the middle of a scene, especially actions scenes it really felt like they just pressed play on the Skyfall CD. I can only guess that they temped the film to the Skyfall score and then Newman and Mendes felt like it didn't need changing.

John Barry managed to write a dozen or so different Bond scores and David Arnold did 5 so I'd have hoped Newman could have done 2.

Just saw this for the first time since I saw it in theaters and wasn't thrilled with it, my feelings haven't changed.

The villains are the biggest problem. Waltz is a great actor but he's a very uninteresting Blofeld. Someone suggested Dave Bautista should have been Blofeld, THAT would have been far more interesting, this smart intelligent leader of a crime organization being a huge bruiser like him and Waltz was just a decoy. Also having Blofeld be Bond's long lost adopted brother or whatever was incredibly dumb. Also Bond falling in love with Mr. White's daughter, also dumb, especially since she wasn't even that interesting.

This was all around just a very meh Bond movie. And that title song, Jes-zus, such a step backward from Skyfall.

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