by XvGojira » Thu Dec 05, 2019 8:31 pm
Casino Royale is amazing. I felt like Quantum was more set up for future installments than a good Bond story, and the shaky cam made the action scenes suck. Skyfall was great. Specter was a tad underwhelming. Especially since Mission Impossible Rouge Nation basically and their big bad, Solomon Lane, came off better even though Christoph Waltz should have killed it as Blofeld.
While I enjoyed most of Craig's tenure as Bond, I really wish that they didn't have him retire/quit/need to be reinstated/some how not be an agent for a portion of every movie. Even Casino Royale had him retire after recuperating from being tortured by Le Chiffre, admittedly he came back 10 minutes later after Vesper backstabbed him but none of his movies has him as an official 00-agent from start to end. He goes rouge in Quantum. Is "killed" and has to pass physical test to get reinstated (and does even though he actually failed the test but M still trust in him) in Skyfall. The opening mission in Mexico was unsanctioned, so he's suspended at the beginning of Spectre.