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While Casino Royale was the best of his run, and No Time to Die was a fitting closure for Daniel Craig’s James Bond, FlixPatrol reveals that it is SPECTRE that is a surprising streaming success on Netflix. At the moment, No Way Home to Die is ranked as the third most-watched movie on Netflix, which is no surprise since that is the film that ended Craig’s run on the character. However, SPECTRE is ranked sixth, above every other James Bond movie.
SPECTRE remains a highly underrated James Bond film. It is the fourth movie in the franchise, following the highly praised Skyfall. SPECTRE brought in Christoph Waltz as Ernst Blofeld and introduced a new twist in their relationship that didn’t exist in previous movies. It was also Sam Mendes’s second Bond movie, which he directed after Skyfall, the only time a director returned to the franchise since Martin Campbell returned to direct Casino Royale after previously directing GoldenEye.
However, while it was a great chapter in James Bond’s story, it received a lukewarm reception from critics, who only awarded it a 63% Rotten Tomatoes score. Fans were also not all sold on the film, awarding it a 61% score, but many complaints went toward SPECTRE changing the relationship between Bond and Blofeld rather than the actual quality of the film itself, which was pure Bond in the end. Now, thanks to Netflix, people are getting a chance to give the film another look, and a possible reappraisal.
