Critics have given the new James Bond film an enthusiastic welcome, with one saluting it as “pure action mayhem”.<\/p>\n
Spectre, The Guardian’s Peter Bradshaw continued in his five-star review, is “terrifically exciting, spectacular [and] uproariously entertaining”.<\/p>\n
The Times said Sam Mendes’ film was “achingly cool”, while The Independent said it was “every bit the equal of its predecessor”, 2012 release Skyfall.<\/p>\n
Critics were shown Spectre on Wednesday ahead of its release next week.<\/p>\n
The film sees Daniel Craig return as British spy James Bond, aka 007, in a globe-trotting blockbuster named after a sinister criminal syndicate.<\/p>\n
Two-time Oscar winner Christoph Waltz, French actress Lea Seydoux and Italy’s Monica Bellucci also appear in the 24th official entry in the long-running series.<\/p>\n
‘Jaw-dropping’<\/strong><\/p>\n According to the Daily Mirror, Spectre is “an adventure right up there with the superspy’s best” featuring “moments of jaw-dropping stuntwork”.<\/p>\n The Sun’s reviewer concurred, saying the film contains “all the classic elements fans expect”, including a “jaw-dropping opening sequence”.<\/p>\n Variety also singled out this “expensively ludicrous opening sequence, set in Mexico City on the Day of the Dead,” saying it “ranks among the great 007 intros”.<\/p>\n Other industry papers were less effusive, though, with the Hollywood Reportersaying it “ultimately feels like a lesser film than Skyfall, falling back on cliche and convention.”<\/p>\n Screen International, meanwhile, said the film “falls back on the formula to deliver a slightly flat, old-fashioned 007 by the numbers”.<\/p>\n –<\/p>\n Source: BBC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Critics have given the new James Bond film an enthusiastic welcome, with one saluting it as “pure action mayhem”. Spectre, The Guardian’s Peter Bradshaw continued in his five-star review, is “terrifically exciting, spectacular [and] uproariously entertaining”. The Times said Sam Mendes’ film was “achingly cool”, while The Independent said it was “every bit the equal […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":161511,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[6],"class_list":["post-161510","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-togbe-afede"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161510","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=161510"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161510\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/161511"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=161510"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=161510"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=161510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}