Well, that was a load of lies it seems. Now, the movie picks-up right after the end of Spectre, where James and Madeleine ride off to the sunset after the Blofield is captured by MI6. James and Madeleine, for some time, are enjoying their "honey-moon", but their ideal tranquillity is quickly destroyed in Italy, wherein James wanting to visit Vesper's grave and say his goodbies for one last time, find himself facing a bomb, which was put there by Spectre agents. This event leads him to believe that Madeleine may have tricked him, but then they are both chased by Spectre agents, and wanting to save her life, even though, he does not quite trust her, he puts her on the train leaving Italy. And he, himself, is alone again.
Flash forward a couple of years in to the future and we see another organization breaking-and-entering in to a top secret British hazardous chemical substances facility to steal what is called Project Heracles - a chemical DNA targeting substance. This event causes even CIA interest and one of its operatives, Felix, reaches-out to James Bond, who is now living as a recluse in some tropical island. He convinces Bond try to help them, because Spectre may be involved, and their search leads them to Cuba, wherein, in one of fancier clubs, there is a meeting of Spectre agents hosted by Blofield (from prison of all places).
Afterwards, things really get way out of hand when Bond finds-out that this was a trap set by Blofield to kill him. Blofield orders to use the chemical substance stolen to kill Bond, stating that it will not affect any Spectre agents, only Bond; but reverse thing happens and all of Spectre agents die.
This event sets off the entire movie. While, on paper, it may seem interesting, but on screen all of the movie simply felt too boring, wherein even the action-scenes were lacklustre. Bond (or Bond with company) mowing down hundreds of bad-guys, who are barely struggling to hold their ground, in order to get to the man responsible... who, isn't even Blofield. Hell, actually, Blofield unceremoniously dies in this movie; James touches him (well, okey, in anger tries to strangle him), but because he was not aware that now that chemical substance is on him, he kills Blofield.
The real bad-guy is some guy named Safin, who is out for revenge on all of the Spectre, because many years ago, Blofield ordered Madeleine's father to kill Safin's parents. Now, Safin is in possession of not only Project Heracles, but also a wad of poisonous materials for some reason... and he's boring as watching paint dry. While in the start of the movie, in Madeleine's flash-back, we see him shooting Madeleine's mother, but he does not do anything afterwards. He just talks and talks, and talks (with some sort of mental disability, I wager), and then, in the end, gets unceremoniously tripple-tapped by James.
The only more or less impactful part was when Felix died in line of duty, but everything else was just plane and simply too boring for a James Bond movie.
That part where all of interwebs was up in arms with James being replaced by another operative, I mean, it was good. God knows, that for the major part of Craig's Bondiana, Jame's character was more or less working outside MI6. So, nothing's changed there, surprised that M only now decided to replace Bond with another operative.
All in all, I would say that the movie was simply anticlimactic and an anticlimactic way to say farewell to James Bond in general.
Flash forward a couple of years in to the future and we see another organization breaking-and-entering in to a top secret British hazardous chemical substances facility to steal what is called Project Heracles - a chemical DNA targeting substance. This event causes even CIA interest and one of its operatives, Felix, reaches-out to James Bond, who is now living as a recluse in some tropical island. He convinces Bond try to help them, because Spectre may be involved, and their search leads them to Cuba, wherein, in one of fancier clubs, there is a meeting of Spectre agents hosted by Blofield (from prison of all places).
Afterwards, things really get way out of hand when Bond finds-out that this was a trap set by Blofield to kill him. Blofield orders to use the chemical substance stolen to kill Bond, stating that it will not affect any Spectre agents, only Bond; but reverse thing happens and all of Spectre agents die.
This event sets off the entire movie. While, on paper, it may seem interesting, but on screen all of the movie simply felt too boring, wherein even the action-scenes were lacklustre. Bond (or Bond with company) mowing down hundreds of bad-guys, who are barely struggling to hold their ground, in order to get to the man responsible... who, isn't even Blofield. Hell, actually, Blofield unceremoniously dies in this movie; James touches him (well, okey, in anger tries to strangle him), but because he was not aware that now that chemical substance is on him, he kills Blofield.
The real bad-guy is some guy named Safin, who is out for revenge on all of the Spectre, because many years ago, Blofield ordered Madeleine's father to kill Safin's parents. Now, Safin is in possession of not only Project Heracles, but also a wad of poisonous materials for some reason... and he's boring as watching paint dry. While in the start of the movie, in Madeleine's flash-back, we see him shooting Madeleine's mother, but he does not do anything afterwards. He just talks and talks, and talks (with some sort of mental disability, I wager), and then, in the end, gets unceremoniously tripple-tapped by James.
The only more or less impactful part was when Felix died in line of duty, but everything else was just plane and simply too boring for a James Bond movie.
That part where all of interwebs was up in arms with James being replaced by another operative, I mean, it was good. God knows, that for the major part of Craig's Bondiana, Jame's character was more or less working outside MI6. So, nothing's changed there, surprised that M only now decided to replace Bond with another operative.
All in all, I would say that the movie was simply anticlimactic and an anticlimactic way to say farewell to James Bond in general.
