A weak version of what its trailer had set it out to be - **1/2

Spectre is an organization that had appeared in Diamonds Are Forever and is also the twenty-fourth James Bond film.  It is Sam Mendes' second James Bond movie following Skyfall and is also co-produced by Daniel Craig himself.  With a total budget of USD 250 million, and gross sales marked at USD 310 million as of November 11, 2015 the film is one of the most expensive James Bond movie ever made.

The story picks up from where Skyfall left off, acting on a mission upon the unofficial order of the former M, James Bond finds himself in Mexico killing an assassin whose death led him to discover an organization called Spectre that had been somehow responsible for James Bond's past challenges.  Behind this caper, the 00 organization where James Bond belongs as 007 is also being challenged.  It's existence is being threatened by a new head with a different kind of 'philosophy' and is coincidentally a member of the Spectre organization.

I was really intrigued when I saw the trailer of this movie. I thought there was a major bombshell to be revealed.   Though the revelation did not quite match the amount of excitement that I felt, what the trailer did not tell me is how spectacular the opening scene was in Mexico.  The music set the mood and the scenes played along with the rhythm, it seems like everything was choreographed up to the part where he lands on a sofa after falling from a collapsing building.  Then the helicopter scene looked really expensive and well shot. I was not breathing the whole time. But the excitement ends there.  I was struggling to stay awake the rest of the time.

The story is weak and uninteresting and the action scenes did not quite make up for its inadequacy.  It tries to tie up this film with the old James Bond films by way of highlighting the organization Spectre through whom James can affiliate most of his miseries.  And the reason behind this should be the films biggest mystery, but when that was revealed everything just became so shallow.  Most of all I find it funny when villains try to set up traps for the heroes.  In this case an old building was set up to explode to kill just two people.  This was supposed to be a climactic scene but it just feels too contrived that it felt anti climactic.