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| SPECTRE movie poster |
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| Daniel Craig James Bond 007 |
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| Christoph Waltz Oberhauser bad guy |
The newest James Bond film starts a bit after the last one "Skyfall". Bond, travels to Mexico City to finish the job left undone. He takes out Marco Sciarra (the bad guy from Skyfall) and snatches his ring. It has a symbol emblazoned on it, an octopus. When James returns to London, his boss M (Ralph Fiennes) suspends him. There is intrigue afoot at MI 5 as M is struggling with C to prevent the merger of MI 5 and MI 6 along with a global surveillance company made up of 9 member entities, which will be called Nine Eyes. Further C decides that the 00 program is obsolete and closes it. (will 007 apply for unemployment benefits?)
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| Ralph Fiennes M |
Meanwhile 007 goes to Rome to attend the funeral of Sciarra and finds out from his widow, that he was a member of a secret organization called Spectre. Bond infiltrates a meeting of Spectre but the leader, Franz Oberhauser, calls him out by name. Bond makes a run for it and is pursued by one of Spectre's henchmen. From Rome, 007 travels to Austria to try to find an informant from Quantum. When Bond finds White, he is dying of thallium poisoning and tells 007 that Quantum is a part of Spectre. Additionally the previous 3 bad dudes who pursued Bond were part of the Spectre organization. White requests that 007 protect his daughter Dr. Madeline Swann. After White dies, Swann and Bond travel to Morocco and there find information about Oberhauser's facility in the desert. The two of them take a train to the nearest coordinates they found in White's hidey-hole. They are captured and taken to Oberhauser. He then tells them the real truth about Spectre and the Nine Eyes program. By creating terrorist attacks all around the world, he has made his program indispensable to countries for protection and then from that type of control he will be able to spy on anyone and everyone. A sinister plot indeed. Come to found out that Oberhauser, goes by the name Ernst Blofeld because as a young man he killed his father and pretended to kill himself. There is a sorted reason why that includes James. Eventually Swann and Bond escape and on their way out of town destroy the facility. Kaboom!
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| Lea Seydoux Madeleine Swann |
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| Ben Whishaw Q |
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| Naomie Harris Moneypenny |
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| Andrew Scott C bad dude |
Well, Dear Readers, do the merry band of spies save the world and take down Spectre?. Sorry to say The Travelling Toe will not reveal all. But after all this is a James Bond movie!
Christoph Waltz made a wonderful bad guy - as he has done before. The Travelling Toe is of the opinion that the "designated" bad guy of the Bond movie is what makes this franchise so entertaining. The bad guy does not always win but they provide a lot of moxie for the picture!
Side Note: Just be aware this movie is 148 minutes long so once again plan your liquid consumption accordingly
The Travelling Toe gives this movie 1 big toe up and 1 middle toe up with a Walther PPK for protection.
Disclaimer: The Travelling Toe is not a professional critic and any opinions expressed are for entertainment purposes only.
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