Film Illiterate, wherein the proprietor records movies seen, and sporadic progress through assorted lists of the "best". Originally started after regretfully renting something forgettable for the third time. I've forgotten what, but never again! A tedious endeavour since 2005. Hello. 🙂
Easily the best Bond film of the Daniel Craig era and perhaps the best ever, primarily because it's almost the opposite of one: an excellent action adventure, yes, but also an elegy, concerned with love, family and legacy. It's the end of an age. At almost three hours it seems excessively long, but the only parts I'd cut are Rami Malek's uncanny-valley make-up and what seems like a confused attempt in post-production to avoid comparisons with COVID-19 by changing a bio-weapon into nanotech.
The character beats are wonderful -- like the confused rejection by closest-there-is-to-a-Bond-girl Ana de Armas, or Ralph Fiennes' sad old M -- and the action between them works. Cary Joji Fukunaga has already had a varied career but this is his first real blockbuster; unlike with so many others, money well spent.