Perhaps it's my own fatigue with the Bond franchise and the knowledge of exactly where it will go and how things will turn out that makes the old-fashioned and nicely campy Spectre not as gripping a ride as I would have wanted it to be.

It is a tired retread that offers little new or original, taking 007 to the one place he's arguably never been before: irrelevance.

Daniel Craig recently said that he'd rather "kill himself" than do another Bond film -- and in Spectre, his misery shows.

Overly long, terribly scripted and largely devoid of engaging action set pieces, 'Spectre' represents a definitive low point for the Daniel Craig era.