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10 Reasons Why Spectre Doesn’t Top Skyfall

Sam Mendes' Spectre, the 24th entry in the James Bond franchise, is not a bad film. Critical consensus indicates it's flawed, but still basically enjoyable and artfully made by a director who's proven surprisingly adept at blockbuster filmmaking. Nevertheless, Spectre has the misfortune of following one of the greatest Bond movies of all-time: Mendes' own Skyfall. A Bond film made to simultaneously bring 007 up-to-date and celebrate 50 years of the character, Skyfall is comfortably the best of the Daniel Craig Bonds. Spectre comes in at a respectable third.

7) Bond Is Once Again A Heartless, Mindless Killer

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This one’s a matter of taste, probably, but Skyfall‘s depiction of 007 as a conflicted man out of time, an almost tragic figure lost in the modern day, helped audiences to invest in Sam Mendes’ first Bond.

In Spectre, though there’s an attempt to replicate the personal stakes of Skyfall by revealing Bond was raised along with Christoph Waltz’s villain Franz Oberhauser, the film feels comparatively hollow.

Part of the reason for this is that Craig’s Bond, once a complex, relatable fellow, is now once again the heartless, mindless killer with commitment issues that Connery, Moore et al played. Feeling much sympathy for this guy is near-impossible, and you sense Craig feels the same way, delivering as he does his most stale Bond performance.

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