Source: MGM/Sony Pictures
While filming continues for the 24th James Bond adventure, EON Productions, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and Sony Pictures Entertainment have released the teaser trailer for Spectre which you can watch below!
Directed by the Academy Award winning Sam Mendes (Skyfall, American Beauty), Spectre stars Daniel Craig (Casino Royale, Munich), Ben Wishaw (Perfume: The Story of a Murderer, I’m Not There), Naomie Harris (Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom, 28 Weeks Later), Ralph Fiennes (The Grand Budapest Hotel, The Invisible Woman), Christoph Waltz (Django Unchained, Inglourious Basterds), Monica Bellucci (Irreversible, Malena), David Bautista (Guardians of the Galaxy, The Man with the Iron Fists), Léa Seydoux (Inglourious Basterds, Blue is the Warmest Color), Stephanie Sigman (Miss Bala, Pioneer), Andrew Scott (Locke, “Sherlock”) and Rory Kinnear (Quantum of Solace, The Imitation Game).
In the movie, a cryptic message from Bond’s past sends him on a trail to uncover a sinister organisation. While M battles political forces to keep the secret service alive, Bond peels back the layers of deceit to reveal the terrible truth behind SPECTRE.
SPECTRE (SPecial Executive for Counter-intelligence, Terrorism, Revenge and Extortion), as Bond fans know, is a fictional global terrorist organization featured in Ian Fleming’s novels, as well as the films and video games based on those novels. The organization was led by the villain Ernst Stavro Blofeld, although the cast is definitely playing it coy about whether or not Blofeld will actually appear in the new film.
Spectre, written by John Logan and Neal Purvis & Robert Wade, hits theaters and IMAX on November 6, 2015.
Truth be told, I wasn’t as huge of a fan of Skyfall as everybody else was. It wasn’t a terrible film or, hell, even the worst James Bond movie, I just didn’t think it was as groundbreaking or revolutionary as the other Bond movies.
Of the faults that I have, the first problem I had was the story. I thought they were trying way too hard to mimic several of the plotlines from The Dark Knight and The Avengers. There are pinpoint areas where you can see what they lifted from both movies from the way Javier Bardem’s character is sitting in his prison cell similar to the way Loki was in The Avengers to the terroristic ways the bad guy does what he does a lot like how the Joker committed the crimes he did in The Dark Knight. There are other scenes that steal from several parts of The Avengers and The Dark Knight, you would expect that these movies would be good on their own to not try to steal from other movies.
Another problem that I had was that the movie’s pacing was off at some points but never to the point where it ruins the film for me. The film does run a little bit too long. At 143 minutes long, it feels way too long for a James Bond movie. Yes, Casino Royale was just as long but that movie had a lot going on that was good that you couldn’t really tell. Here, it does feel a little too long.
But that was Skyfall, this is Spectre and I gotta say, I’m pumped as hell for this.
These newer James Bond movies have done a spectacular job of combining the older elements of the previous films with a newer storyline without making it seem obvious or phoned in and seeing that they will do Spectre next (and more than likely Blofeld), I have no doubt this will be another step in the right direction for the Bond franchise.
This teaser definitely deserves a spot with many of the other great Bond teaser trailers that have been released since the beginning of the franchise, it’s a slick, nicely done teaser that has all the tricklings of what we’re used to seeing in a Bond teaser and gives us a very nice tease for the badassness that will surely follow come this November.
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