SPECTRE Irma Bunt, Blofeld's assistant, in his short story "Blast From the Past", which is a sequel to "You Only Live Twice". In the Eon Productions James Bond series, which began in 1962 with "Dr. No", SPECTRE plays a more prominent role. The organisation is first mentioned in "Dr. No" as the organisation for which Dr. No works. This was changed from Fleming's novels, which had Dr. No working for the USSR. In the films, SPECTRE usually replaced SMERSH as the main villains, although there is a brief reference to SMERSH in the second Eon Bond film, "From Russia with Love"
Spectre (2015 film) "come not to bury "Spectre", but to weirdly praise it. Because the final act of the movie is so strange, so willfully obtuse, that it deserves extra attention." Christopher Orr, writing in "The Atlantic", also criticised the film, saying that "Spectre" "backslides on virtually every [aspect]". Lawrence Toppman of "The Charlotte Observer" called Craig's performance "Bored, James Bored." Alyssa Rosenberg, writing for "The Washington Post", stated that the film turned into "a disappointingly conventional "Bond" film." In a positive review published in "Rolling Stone", Peter Travers gave the film 3.5 stars out of 4, describing "Spectre" as "party time for