If Skyfall was another gritty reinvention of Bond, Spectre feels like an attempt to place the character firmly in-between grit and the silliness of the Roger Moore days, because there's a ton of ridiculousness here, much of which wouldn't feel amiss in a Moore-era film. For example, during the Rome car chase sequence against Dave Bautista's Mr. Hinx, he accidentally switches on some cheesy music in the new prototype Aston Martin car he's using, and gets trapped behind an old man slowly driving a Fiat 500. He gets behind the car and slowly accelerates, nudging the car out of the way and into a parking space, where it hits a metal bollard and explodes the air-bag in the driver's face. Bond follows this up by using his car's ejector seat to escape Hinx later. Then there's the awkward episode where Q gets stuck on a ski-lift in Austria, all while Bond rides a plane with no wings down a snowy hilltop, crashing into enemy vehicles on the way down. Some of it works, some of it doesn't, but it all alters the film's tone significantly in comparison to Skyfall, which may be a shock to some.
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