SPOILERS BELOW
At this point, James Bond is about as unkillable as a cockroach. And I don't mean just in the movies themselves, but here in the real world as well. With every new movie since the end of the Cold War, there seem to be dozens of people ready to point out the super spy's irrelevance and oncoming demise. And yet, Bond keeps on chugging. But he has been adrift since the fall of the Soviet Union and each new film has tried to help the character find his place in the new political world, to varying degrees of success. The previous film, Skyfall, tackled this problem on headfirst and seemed to set up a new status quo for Bond in the new millennium. As such, Director Sam Mendes and Daniel Craig have returned to see Bond off and wrap up a few more loose ends.
Picking up directly after Skyfall, Bond (Daniel Craig, once more) is officially on leave from his spy duties and is supposed to be staying out of trouble. Unofficially, he's been jetting across the world tracking a mysterious criminal organization whose reach could be incalculable. Bond's search brings into contact with Dr. Madeleine Swann (Lea Seydoux), the daughter of an old adversary who could lead him to the heart of the organization and finds himself stalked by an almost literal ghost from his past. But Bond's extracurricular activities are causing trouble back home, as M (Ralph Fiennes) finds himself and MI6 under fire from a new defense minister seeking to shut the spy program down. As the film goes on and Bond draws closer to the heart of the beast, these two things appear less disconnected than they did and an even grander scheme comes into focus...
