10 Movies That Got Better YEARS Later
5. Spectre
Spectre released in 2015 to rather underwhelming reviews, many feeling that it was a disappointing follow-up to Skyfall, suffering from a needlessly convoluted narrative while failing to make the most of legacy villain Ernst Stavro Blofeld (Christoph Waltz).
While follow-up No Time to Die could've quite easily left Spectre in its rear-view and moved forward with another standalone story, it actually did the trickier, bolder thing and went about smoothing over Spectre's rough edges.
First and foremost, No Time to Die massively deepens the rather rushed relationship between 007 (Daniel Craig) and Madeleine Swann (Lea Seydoux) from Spectre, paying it off in an unexpectedly emotional manner by way of their child, Mathilde (Lisa-Dorah Sonnet), and Bond's ultimate sacrifice to save them both.
Elsewhere, it also does a much better job with Blofeld, who while only appearing in a supporting capacity casts a far more menacing and unsettling presence, carrying his beef with Bond to a satisfying conclusion.
Make no mistake, Spectre is still a low-point for the Craig era, but No Time to Die made it matter more and feel like a genuienly consequential entry into this run of Bond movies.