The film's brief glimpses of Mexico City suggest a dusky, haunted urban landscape full of mystery and death.īut the investment certainly paid off for moviegoers. I’m not entirely sure that city officials got what they paid for.
It's a scene that pulls double duty as a high-octane opener and a backdoor fundraiser for this $300 million spy extravaganza: It was reportedly reworked in order to qualify for as much as $20 million in tax credits from the Mexican government, which wanted Spectre’s producers to feature the city in a positive light. Set during Mexico City’s Day of the Dead festival, the sequence introduces a longer pre-credits action set piece, complete with crashing buildings and a vertiginous hand-to-hand encounter in an out-of-control helicopter. It makes for a gorgeous, foreboding, and incredibly tense sequence, staged and paced with Hitchcockian wit and precision - and that’s before stuff starts blowing up.
The jaw-dropping single shot is an incredible technical accomplishment.
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