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It is truly unfortunate that the movie '"Toma'' received more praise on Imdb so far than ''Nedelja'', hence the need for writing this review, since the movie - as a whole - is indeed a work of art when compared to the other one. Scholarly and masterfully directed, with beautiful post-production and photography, stellar cast and an emotional subject for many of us, with mesmerizing blend of Oliver Mandic's music accenting the story of the last ''good spirit of Belgrade'' touched the hearts of the whole theater. Serbia didn't have such a sincere (coming of age) movie in a long, long time. Thank you.

Let me start by saying that even though I am a huge Bond fan, for some reason, I was not impressed by Craig being cast, and almost gave up on Bond after Royale.

(Silly me.)

But! Thanks to pandemic, I decided to binge these movies and see what this ''new'' Bond is truly all about.

I was so wrong, wrong like Bond never is. Even though the movies put a new spin on the series by introducing a serialized and sequelish narrative that was not seen before - that particular escapade actually gave these movies so much power.

And that power culminates and explodes in Spectre.

Rebooting a franchise is usually done instantly after the opening credits. But for a franchise that lasts this long, and that is beloved by many across the world, it had to be handled with great care and over a course of a handful of films.

From the first Bond's mission after he gets promoted to OO, through scars earned in Quantum of Solace and his death and redemption in Skyfall, OO7 in Spectre is finally all grown in his true and unstoppable form that we all know and love.

While viewers and reviewers of Spectre usually address his true form as simple love letters or nods to previous films, they fail to see the whole point and character development that we had on screen before our very eyes, and that was done masterfully by mr. Craig.

In Skyfall, the classic M was slowly rebooted and brought back to old office as well as Miss Moneypenny (not to mention Q, Aston Martin DB5, etc), and in Spectre, our Sean Connery era Bond, is finally ready to steal the show.

However, this time around, he makes so much more sense, because we had a chance to see all that slowly-built and shaken-with-a-thin-lemon-peel-slice character development in previous (Craig-era) instalments.

Daniel Craig's savageness and confidence is now matured and has a fine coat of absolute charm that allows him to steal a true and intoxicating B(L)ond Girl who apparently is not in a dire need of hand-to-hand combat lessons.

Spectre is like a box of pralines in a lavishly redesigned package sent with care to all fans of all Bond eras, just to be stolen and eaten - by the second half of the movie - by a classic Bond villain. (Thank you mr. Waltz for doing what you do the best.)

And, just like that, all that I have concluded above has been shown in first seconds after the MGM logo sequence, when we finally and for the first time, get to see the full classic intro with the classic Bond theme. And that alone gave me the chills.

Just don't tell me it was put in Spectre for the first time for no apparent reason. :) It's because both we, and our Bond were finally ready for it.

So, should you watch it? Let me see:

Aston Martin, white tuxedo, Monica Bellucci, a train, a crater in the desert, menacing Dave Bautista, and a white cat...

I'll let you think about it while I go and make myself a Martini... But this time, dirty.