Time to end Bond
When the Bond franchise got rebooted in 2006 with Daniel Craig as the new Jame Bond in Casino Royal, I really thought it was a great way to start from the beginning and how Bond became 007. However, shortly after "Quantum of Solace" ( which I personally thought was still a great Bond movie) but things started to go south after that with "Skyfall" and hiring Sam Mendes as the director, that was another huge mistake who really turned Bond into a soap opera.
This soap opera theme carried itself into "Spectre", where suddenly Bond's nemesis Blofeld share a childhood history together, can it get any worse?...yes it can and it did with when Bond fell in love with the daughter of one of the member's of Spectre " Madeleine". He already fell in love with Vesper in the first movie "Casino Royale", but this time Bond quits MI6 to go off and and live happily ever after with Madeleine. This movie started with the theme song of the 1969 famous Bond movie "On Her Majesty's Secret Service", with George Lazenby and Diana Rigg, when Bond got married and his wife got killed by Blofeld at the end. I thought the line "we have all the time in the world", that was from "On Her Majesty's Secret Service" was a hint by the director where this story of this Bond film is heading, but instead they reversed it and this time it is Bond who dies at the end?.
There was so many things wrong with this last Bond, first was casting of "Lashana Lynch as "Nomi". Lashana Lynch is utterly a miscast for a Bond film, couldn't they at least find someone more attractive who is in shape like Carmen Ejogo, Freema Agyeman, Marsha Thomason ? Bond movies are known for gorgeous women, but I am sorry to say Lashana Lynch is neither interesting or has any screen charisma. I remember when I saw "Grace Jones" in a Bond movie "View to a Kill", I could not take my eyes off her, she was playing a villain, but she had something that radiated from the screen, but all Lynch made me want to do was to look away. What was even more lame is was they made her into another "007"?.
The second mistake was casting "Ana de Armas" as Paloma, this girl ruins every film she is in, she ruined the sequel to "Blade Runner" as the most annoying character. But here due to whatever friendship she has with Craig from "Knives Out" she gets a part in this film, that entire action scene in the casino was just awful, they really needed to edit that entire scene out all together. The only person that saved this film and what kept my interest was the acting of "Léa Seydoux", whom has real talent and gave this film some life. I think the director Fukunaga was probably the best choice for this Bond movie, I have seen his other work and he is very focused when it comes to telling a story, but he really came into too late and inherited the mess that Sam Mendes and the writers had already created. I must admit I was moved and kind of sad by the ending, when I saw Felix Leiter die, I knew this Bond will not end the same way. I like Craig in this role but even he looked as if he was just walking through this film and couldn't wait for it to end. This Bond Franchise should have really ended with Roger Moore, and all these other people like who played Bond and their stupid premise just ruined what this character was about. Bond was never meant to be an action character; I would suggest to people who think that to go back and watch Dr. No.
I personally think Barbara Broccoli was a big factor in ruining the franchise of Bond, she is not that bright or a visionary like her father was, she is actually clueless about what Bond is really about. What went wrong with this reboot since 2006 is that the writers didn't focus on the key themes of Ian Fleming's work, instead of focusing on what this sinister organization "Spectre" is, who are their members?..what their intention and agendas", the writers focused on making it into a soap opera. I remember in "Quantum of Solace", at the opera scene when Bond was taking pictures of the people who were involved with Quantum, many of them being politicians, they could have been expanded much much further into what made up "Spectre", especially relating it contemporary political issues of our time, with social media, cyber hacking, conspiracy theory groups to be the brainchild of Spectre in order to create cognitive dissonance, etc.
The writers could have really tied "Spectre" into a whole range of corrupt and illegal activities that was affecting regimes, elections, political issues across the world, but the lack of imagination of these writers is why it failed and turned into soapy boring movies, that one was worse than the other. What didn't make sense in this last film is the character "Lyutsifer Safin" to go and kill the entire Spectre, where instead he should have been another member and extension of Spectre.