It's been out a few years, I have seen it before, but I Netflixed it just for old times sake. It's a perfectly watchable Bond movie. Daniel Craig plays as good a Bond as any of them, tough, humorless, relentless, and a lady killer. The special effects are good, for openers Bond shoots a couple of bad guys thru an upper floor window. By the time every one's gun runs out of ammunition, the entire multi story Mexico City building collapses. Not bad for some small arms fire. And Bond manages to shoot Blofeld's helicopter out of the air using just a hand gun. Bond's handgun is bigger than the puny Walther PPK that shows up in most of the earlier Bond movies. Looks to be a Smith and Wesson or Sig Saur 9mm automatic.
The script writers have some continuity problems. We have Bond in London, getting chewed out for exceeding his authority in Mexico City by blowing up a couple of bad guys without proper paperwork. Next thing we know, Bond, with a brand new Aston Martin DB10, much sleeker and lower than the DB-6 he drove in back in Goldfinger, is in Rome. How he and the car get from London to Rome is not even hinted at. Did he drive the Chunnel? Or put the car on a Channel ferry? Just a short clip showing Bond and the Aston Martin doing either would have been helpful to us viewers. Apparently Bond does intercontinental travel instantaneously, like magic. He and the Bond Girl get from Rome to North Africa, and then back to London from North Africa all instantaneously, Never a clip of him boarding an airliner. The Bond Girl is cute, as all Bond Girls are. I never picked up on her name watching the movie. I had to look it up on IMDB.
Filming in 2015, three years ago, the annoying "Shake the Camera" style of camera work was gone, but the "Film it in the Dark" style is fully there. Lots of night action, with the lights out, where I could not tell Bond from Blofeld. Not as bad as Game of Thrones, but annoying. The sound man was only fair, I missed some of the more breathy dialog.
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