Checked all the boxes but was a HUGE disappointment. Why?

Great and exotic locations? Check. Mexico City, Rome, Austria, London, and north Africa. This was no license to kill or live and let die with a small geographic area

Academy award winner cast as villain? Check

"Big time" plot - check - spectre, blowfeld, mr white,

Bond family suspense? Check. Not only M, but Q and money penny will also be involved

Yet, this was a huge dissapointment in every possible way. Why?

Personally, I think Bond has always been best as the male fantasy. Watch FRWL, Goldfinger, and TSWLM. Then rewatch and write THAT Bond.

Craig started out in casino Royale like a young Connery - arrogant, bold, daring and dangerous. He didn't have connery's boyish charm or good looks, but CR was a great film and performance (one of my top 6 bond films). But in 4 films craig has become gloomy, depressed, obsessed with a former lover (who betrayed/saved him at the same time), tired of his job, and finally, at te end of SPECTRE, ready to give up being Bond....for a woman he met a few days earlier

The key to most of the great Bond movies is that Bond LOVES being Bond and viewers are it up.
Roger Moore understood that. Dalton didn't - trying to act like he was in Hamlet while skiing down a mountain In a cello case.

If bond is now about being shot and removing the bullet himself like a Rambo movie, brooding around and being reminded of his childhood every film like batman, or quitting being a double agent everytime he meets a woman and falls right in love, then the mystique is gone

Bond should like being Bond. Whether as a young playboy (Connery) or a more mature and refined man (Moore). It's good Bond is dangerous, but sad and depresses it is not