3) The Dialogue Isn’t Up To Scratch
Another sign of a rushed script: too much saying, not enough doing.
Where Skyfall‘s words felt carefully prepared, Spectre in parts feels heavily stodgy thanks to all the expositionary dialogue that John Logan, Neal Purvis, Robert Wade and Jez Butterworth left in there. When it’s time for action, Spectre flies by. When it’s time for talk, the film slows markedly.
[zergpaid]When the movie isn’t busy explaining everything, Spectre makes obvious attempts at iconic dialogue, but mostly the lines just come across as a bit bizarre (“You’re a kite dancing in a hurricane, Mr. Bond,” “I always knew death would wear a familiar face,” etc).
Ultimately, there’s nothing in Spectre that rivals Skyfall‘s rat monologue, and nothing that resonates quite like that final exchange between Bond and Judi Dench’s M.