having CONTROL of the intelligence of multiple countries would be a fucking godsend for most criminal organizations. In that regard it works.
I kinda liked it, but I dunno why they didnt just reintroduce Blofeld as.... Blofeld. No long wait for them to "reveal" him as Bofeld, just.... "this is blofeld and hes the head of spectre"
just because they havent met yet in universe doesnt mean you need to hide it drom the viewers.
Oh and they forced a personal connection with Bond in there which happens way too often nowadays. Heroes and villains have to be linked in backstory and set up as arch enemies before they even meet, instead of naturally progressing into that relationship (the joker wasn't designed to be an arch enemy, he was just good and over time fell into the role naturally)
I'm curious- did you also dislike main villain of Goldeneye? Spectre had an unprecedented amount of continuity with its predecessors, but giving Bond a previously nonexistent personal connection to the antagonist for the sake of raising the dramatic stakes is nothing new.
It wasn't a good thing in Goldeneye either, however Goldeneye at least didn't pretend there was a franchise continuity leading towards it, and didn't shamelessly reiterate the villain from just the previous movie.
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Boring, Despite Having 100% More Tentacle Hentai Than Expected
Spectre means well, trying to give us the same as the billion dollar earning spectacle that was Skyfall, but that is probably the cause of its biggest flaws. The critic Movie Bob has (annoyingly) already said most of what I wanted to say about how Spectre tries too hard to ape the other blockbusters of the last few years, so I can't really make the exact same criticism without sounding like a copycat.
But he's right, goddamnit.
Spectre opens with a well shot but forgettable opening scene. By forgettable, I mean I couldn't remember within five minutes of walking out of the film. Then there is a rubbishy theme song, spiced up only by the fore mentioned octopus fun. From then on, it's a disproportionate number of expository scenes in shiny looking rooms. The action is surprisingly infrequent and unthrilling, save for one good punch up on a train that hearkens back to From Russia with Love.
I mentioned the similarities with Sky Fall. It's all there, from the weird rapey scene with a vulnerable woman Bond's just met, to the two hour bloody wait for the damn villain to show up (who then does the whole Freudian upbringing, angsty, "you and me are just alike" routine - again). This is supposed to be a finale to all the previous Daniel Craig films, with the villain alluding to the previous Bond girls and villains, how they were all on his paycheck, and how he'd been planning a personal get together with Bond for a long time, just to reveal the big twist...a big twist that has no emotional impact whatsover and acts as a weak retcon to the Bond franchise.
It also raises a lot of plot holes, like why he waited for Bond to wipe out a few of his most senior operators before getting together to discuss his big scheme, or how all the villains of the World can meet in one huge board room in Rome and no Intelligence agency know about it, or how the big scheme is for a criminal organisation to have access to the first World's secret intelligence...but not have any real need for it seeing as how they aren't a country and have no aims beyond making money.
I could go on all day about how much the story annoyed me, but instead I'll get to the real problem. It's boring. It's probably worse than Quantum Of Solace in terms of how little impression it leaves. Skip it.