#SPECTRE FILM LOGO MOVIE#

#SPECTRE FILM LOGO MOVIE#

Spectre never reaches that same pinnacle of movie-movie joy again it’s like director Sam Mendes ( Road to Perdition, American Beauty) steps out once the opening has unspooled, and leaves the rest of the movie to his understudy. If this is how Spectre begins, what amazing goodies does it have up its sleeve for the meat of the movie?Īs it turns out, not much at all. There is atmosphere to spare here, and humor, and action-movie grace: the helicopter stunt bit with which the sequence climaxes is breathtaking. However this was crafted, we are powerfully in the moment with Bond as he goes to work. And then it graduates to authentically thrilling, as Bond leaps out the hotel window and across rooftops to do a Secret Agent Thing this is where I started to doubt if this had actually been shot in one take, because now we get camera perspectives that cannot be real (or would at least have been incredibly difficult to pull off). They are dressed for the mock morbid mood, gloomy yet merry, and we catch that fun-ereal contagion: if soaking in this gruesome funk doesn’t make you want to instantly sign up for a Halloween trip to Mexico, you may actually be dead inside. It begins with a long and apparently uncut sequence in which the secret agent and a lady friend wend their way through raucous Day of the Dead revelers in Mexico City, through streets heaving with partiers, into a fancy hotel (where the party continues), up to a room. The opening gambit of Spectre - the fourth outing for the 21st century’s James Bond - is absolutely spectacular.

Spectre film logo