Licence To Post: The Official James Bond Thread

Bond dies

It's definitely got a more restrained feel to it. Bond doesn't go out and conquer any other female other than Swann (and even then, their sex is blink and miss)

Swann is an interesting character let down by an annoying actress. For some reason, she takes Bond back but is content to let him think he isn't the child's father until Safin tells him the girl is his.

Speaking of the villain... he's barely in it. The first half teases a much more interesting plot with Safin vs Spectre...but then does nothing with it, nerfing one of Bond's biggest bads in the process with considerable ease, though at the very least Bond gets the final say on Blofeld's fate, the nanobots do their business, but they only do so because Bond is emotionally compromised and wrings his neck

Safin gets his licks in with a few shots and is the one to poison Bond, but is pretty much a pushover. His men are all wiped out because they happen to be lousy shots and Bond's got plot armour enabled

I will say one thing, Bond's female agent contact in Cuba is someone he should have banged. She's lovable, kickass, draws a fine line between intelligent and somewhat ditzy, she'd have been a perfect female 007, and she had a lot more quirks and range. And she's only in it for ten minutes

I thought for sure that Bond would see a vision of Vesper drowning when he saw Felix's corpse floating in the water, just to draw parallels

Overall judgment is that it's a fun, if predictable, Bond adventure that ties up all the loose ends of Craig's era, Bond is still the lead and gets the lion's share of the action...but even with the ending in mind, it feels very safe because you know, regardless of where we are in the world, Bond keeps us safe, and here he once again does that.