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Pretty underwhelmed. Firstly, they Star Trek 2'd us with the guy who would obviously be Blofeld being Blofeld. Not a twist to anyone who knows the Bond mythos really. And wouldn't work for someone who didn't anyway. Interesting they gave him that scar though.

The romance plot advanced way too fast. Comically so.

C's death was weak.

The DB11 isn't that nice looking. I preferred the DB9. Okay, that didn't really matter to the film, I just thought I'd mention it.

I felt like they had 50 little bits of plot. Films generally go for 1 or 2 plots for a reason. It just felt disjointed.

If this is Daniel Craig's Bond films done then that's fine. If they do another the ending is a complete waste of time. I didn't care for it, unless they are treating it as these 4 films we are seeing the whole career of 007 then I rather like it. It would be short and brutal. And I guess for a character like Bond it has to kill him or he has to get out. So yeah, my overall opinion is somewhat based on what the next Bond film is.

Was the alcohol consumption to prove a point about Bond being in love or am I reading too much into it? I felt like he drank more in this film than usual, and turned down the champagne when he is worrying about the woman more (I can't recall her name which says a lot about the plot). Bond is a junkie for a rush. Be it alcohol, driving a fast car or putting himself in the way of a terrorist threat etc.

As I complained about in Skyfall, I don't think they should swear at all. Minor gripe, and a bit of an odd thing for me, the sweariest man in most rooms, to dislike.

Title song was awful. That dude sings way too high pitched. One of my least favourite Bond themes.

Don't get me wrong, this isn't an awful film. It's a decent film. I'd rate it 2.5 or 3 stars if you want a metric. Not as enjoyable as some of the better Bond films, not a train wreck either.

C is the magnificently excellent Moriarty in Sherlock. Can't remember the actors name, but for sure he could have been given a bigger role and more room to display his super-villainy. It wasn't just that his death was a bit mundane, it's that the character was a glorified paper-pusher when it could have been much more.
Blofeld, I reckon, stayed alive and got the scar because (depressingly) there's some future in which he escapes and generates a sequel. If they were going the 'seed the sequel' route, they might as well have gone the whole 'classic Bond' in which Blofeld gets away even though his projects and henchmen go 'kaboom'.

What I AM happy with is that they raised the issue of constant government surveillance, which is really a worrisome and topical issue. (If only the real-life spy agencies were as 'hands-on' instead of being over-reliant on intercepting everyone's communications.) However it's something where tension / urgency completely fails. Why worry about the system going online at a given time? If you can take it down, you can do that whether it's already gone live or not, there's no big "lives are at stake" scenario, if Q fails to do this on time it's no big deal.
Overall, OK film, but I'd rate it as only the 3rd best of Craig's films

Oh, yes, the Bond girl character was shallow even by Bond girl standards (I also instantly forgot her name) and the title song really was awful.

Great film. I really enjoyed it.

Biggest criticisms for me is I do not think they played heavily enough on how big an issue Bats has with his parents. In order to make the Martha scene work with Supes, this needed to be more heavily emphasized. That's based off my reaction and the reaction of the friend I was watching with who really didn't think it made sense.

Actually, wait, a bigger criticism really came up. They kill off a core character in heroic fashion then within 10 minutes they are implying he'll be back. Now, we all know Superman wouldn't stay dead but movies seem to be doing this with increasing regularity. Heroic sacrafice then hero pops back up 10 minutes later. I know it's a comic book movie but death has to matter at least for a while. I wouldn't even mind if they revived him in Justice League. While these movies all play together in the grand scheme, I think they should also be considered individually and hinting at Supes reviving so soon after his death just removes the impact.


They did Doomsday better than most interpretations. The Death of Superman comic was the first graphic novel I ever read (got it from the local library) and it's always held a bit of a special place as a result. I still recall Smallville doing Doomsday and it being 21 episodes of build up to a fight that lasted 10 seconds. This was a lot better. I think I'd have liked Doomsday to get more offense in. I also think I'd have preferred Doomsday in a Justice League Movie so we could have had Doomsday destroy half the league before Supes sacrifices himself. However, the choices made here weren't bad, they were just not my ideal. I did like Doomsday overall.

Lex went from annoying to actually pretty decent. Guy has a weird shaped head now we see it shaved.

The Justice League lineup isn't my favourite. I'd like to have seen Green Lantern and Martian Manhunter. I respect the decision not to have GL there as I don't think Lantern worked as a live action hero. Martian Manhunter is perhaps a little silly and would need to look substantially different from his comic books style so I guess that's fair. Just glad Flash made the cut. I had expected that the TV show would mean we wouldn't see Flash in the movies.


Overall a big thumbs up from me. Not as good as Avengers Assemble or Guardians but a pretty good film overall I thought. I'm a little bias as I have a bit of a man-crush on Affleck but I thought he was a great Batman. Cavill is excellent as Supes. I thought so after Man of Steel and I still think so. He looks like what I think a real life version of Supes would look like. Gadot pulled off WW better than expected.