Spent the entirety of SPECTRE wondering how Bond movies work

Saw the latest Bond movie, Spectre. Spent the entire thing wondering how it was possible for a movie like this to work. The character development is perfunctory, and the plot is nonsensical. Everyone acts like an idiot: the villains pass up on a dozen opportunities to kill Bond, and why? Just so they can toy with him. The movie shouldn't work, and yet m…