"SPECTRE" Trailer Review and Breakdown

Well, I said in my last post that a trailer roundup was coming, and that is still happening. But this is a special case as I am about to talk about the first teaser trailer for one of the most anticipated movies of the year: Spectre. Check it out below:

Link for mobile users: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ashLaclKCik

Yes, that's right guys, 007 is back and....talking in the first trailer for the 24th Bond movie, Spectre. It would be unfair to use the word "kicking" as this trailer seems to focus less on action and more on the emotional and personal aspects of this latest venture. Skyfall took a first step in revealing the mysterious origins of the famous agent and this movie looks set to continue the story, introducing a potentially damaging concept, which I'll dive into in a minute. The tone seems considerably darker than anything else we've seen before in a Bond movie, with the overarching threat of this new, sinister organisation. The trailer does not showcase the full range of talent in this movie with Andrew Scott, Dave Bautista, Ralph Fiennes, and Lea Seydoux noticeably absent, but we do at least get our first look at the plot, which has me simply intrigued so far. So, let's take a look at what was revealed in this first, exciting look:

So it's clear that this movie carries straight on from Skyfall, with the opening shot showing the aftermath of the bombing of MI6 by Silva.

Next we have another appearance from Naomie Harris' Eve, otherwise known as Miss Moneypenny, who is delivering everything that the Forensics team recovered from the ruins of Skyfall. Apparently it took them 3 years to sort through it all. Anyway, the contents of the box include this:

This shows a picture of Bond as a child with a man who is not his father, and who I am presuming is Hannes Oberhauser. For those of you not familiar with the lore or background of Bond, Hannes Oberhauser was Bond's skiing instructor from when he was a young man, before he mysteriously went missing. It's an interesting enough concept to link this disappearance to the SPECTRE organisation. But when you take a closer look, it's immediately put in jeopardy when you look at the paper and it looks like the burnt out face is some sort relation to Bond. This is dangerously close to clichéd, if this is indeed Bond's half-brother or the like and it is the same character glimpsed later, then we are going to be seeing yet another evil brother who the hero is forced to go toe to toe with. 

Next, we get shots of the snow-covered slopes of Austria, presumably, where the crew of the movie have been filming recently, where Bond has come in search of a familiar face.

Looking here and especially at the later scenes of the trailer, Bond is well into his search here and believes that the key to uncovering the truth of SPECTRE lies in this little Austrian cabin.

Then we move onto a funeral scene, which features Monica Bellucci, who plays Lucia Sciarra. In a script leak, Bond apparently kills her husband, an assassin only called Sciarra, and then manipulates her into giving him information on her husband's actions. That sounds great but unfortunately that script, and in particular the ending, was not well received by Sony executives or people online who got to read it in time. At all. Mind you, it was said that time was taken during filming to rewrite the ending and hopefully they have done that.

Well, it just wouldn't be a Bond movie without Aston Martin product placement now would it? In this case, we get our first look at Bond's new Aston Martin DB10, specially made for the movie.

Here, we see that Bond has infiltrated a large meeting of what is presumably SPECTRE, while posing as the man he is seeking out in Austria. This scene also displays the huge ranks of SPECTRE. And this does not seem to include the thugs and henchman and is only the high-up members of the group. 

Bond seems to have evidence to incriminate whoever this man is in being a member of SPECTRE. Maybe its some documents that he has stolen from the meeting that we see a few times in the trailer, or that he has been tracking him across the globe for years, or he can tell by......a ring?

It is nice to see that the old SPECTRE logo is still being used over a redesign or only being hinted at in the octopus-like shatter in the logo released. A bit clumsy though isn't it? Through these branded rings, MI6, the CIA, and the like could easily identify members of the organisation if they are all carrying them or simply if the government suspect them, raid their home and find this piece of quite clear evidence.

"You are a kite, dancing in a hurricane, Mr. Bond." This is the warning given by the rather shabby looking Mr White, once again played by Jesper Christensen. You might be saying, what do you mean "once again?" Well, Mr. White last appeared in Casino Royale and Quantum of Solace, where he was a high-ranking member of the Quantum organisation. Now, if he is not a member of SPECTRE, that is interesting. I originally speculated that Quantum and SPECTRE were the same group and Quantum would eventually evolve into SPECTRE. If not, it looks like the members of Quantum are slowly being hunted down by this new threat, hence why White is hiding out in a cabin in Austria.

Bond does not seem too phased by this ambiguous warning. Maybe he should be, especially going by the enormous numbers in these meeting scenes!

Back to the meeting scene as we see Bond looking over the head executives of SPECTRE before the reveal of the new head of the terrorist group.

The trailer concludes with our first look at Christoph Waltz who plays the villain of the movie, reportedly called Franz Oberhauser. Notice that he has the same name as the aforementioned Hannes Oberhauser from the books. Is he the missing face from the burnt picture? Quite possibly.

So that's all for now. Overall, I'm really excited for this movie, as it did make #3 on my most anticipated movies list. Stay tuned for more content soon!