12 Things You Learn Rewatching Spectre

2. It's Too Bloody Long

Holy moly, this is a long film. Clocking in at a wildly excessive 148 minutes, Spectre is the lengthiest Bond film to date, and it sure makes you feel a good deal of that length.

The second half of the movie feels especially sluggish, and it's all the more frustrating as the film could've easily been re-worked into more concise shape with some pretty simple trimmings.

Sure, neither Casino Royale nor Skyfall were short movies, but they kept up a consistent pace and ultimately justified their meaty run-times. Spectre meanwhile feels like an overbaked attempt to one-up Skyfall's success, but the result is a bloated, agonisingly slow-moving Bond flick in sore need of a more ruthless edit.