The end of "Skyfall" promised a Bond ready to finally become James Bond. One capable of being the gritty assassin born in "Casino Royale" and also the spy we love from the Connery and Moore era. Instead, the Bond of "Spectre" surprisingly, sadly, literally, turns his back on that promise — saddled with a crisis of conscience never established in the previous Daniel Craig entries. It also features a classic villain that’s wasted due to soap opera-level plot twists and bad monologuing. "Spectre" would have you believe that 007 somehow found his way on the path to being a super spy because the father of his adopted brother/future arch-nemesis (Christoph Waltz) liked Bond better.
Yep, Franz Oberhauer became the leader of a super terrorist organization because daddy issues. And became Bond’s secret adversary for years and years, implausibly sending disparate threats to attack Bond in movie after movie — with Bond never once realizing he is in the center of the longest long game ever. Say what you will about "QoS," but at least it didn’t put a bullet in the heart of all the goodwill earned by previous outings. Let’s hope this isn’t Craig’s last mission. He, and us, deserve better.
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