Reviews of Quantum of Solace

Most disappointing film of all time

Posted : 5 days, 3 hours ago on 1 January 2010 05:59 (A review of Quantum of Solace)

What the hell is this?!?!?! I was dreadfully disappointed with Quantum Of Solace because it didn't have any Bond originality to it whatsoever. It didn't feel like a Bond film at all. This film has a story that is an incredible mess that doesn't even explain the title of the film. I think the main flaw that this film had which really annoyed me was that there was no "Bond, James Bond" or "vodka martini, shaken not stirred". Also, where the hell is a cool Bond car? A bit of black-comedy from "Bond" and Moneypenny and R? I wasn't expecting it in Casino Royale because Bond wasn't officially 007 whereas at the end of Casino Royale and the start of Quantum Of Solace. Also, the stupid Goldfinger rip-off too is something that really annoyed me. Instead of gold paint it was black oil and it was a naked woman on a bed. That is pathetic and pointless because it rips off a film from it's own series. Quantum is apparently the organization which we don't know enough about even after watching this and also what the hell does "solace" mean anyway? The action scenes were the only decent things in this film but I admit that most of those scenes were a bit too explosive for a Bond film. I mean it's a Bond film not a gory Crank/Rambo film that has very fast pased action. I think the biggest flaw was that when you see the big running time of Casino Royale (longest Bond ever: 144 minutes long) and the very gripping dialogue that it has and then you see its sequel Quantum Of Solace which is only 1 hour 40 minutes which is the shortest Bond film yet. In some of those scenes when one shot on the screen came up it suddenly changed to something else. I think the best impactful action scene was the boat chase.


Daniel Craig's acting is absolutely brilliant but he wasn't portraying James Bond. He was portraying a different character. The way Daniel Craig portrayed "James Bond" was good as far as the action is concerned and the ways with the women but the story and the script made it a rather embarassing film to the James Bond series. Olga Kurylenko made a pretty lame Bond girl because I was almost laughing at her awful performance. She didn't show any seriousness to her character in any way whatsoever. Mathieu Amalric was an average villain. He seemed like that slimy type of actor to play that kind of character but if the villain in Quantum Of Solace was more powerful, threatening and fearful he would have given a better performance.


Marc Forster had no clue in this film and that's final. I think he must have watched the Bourne trilogy over and over again to get an idea of how to create an action film which is probably why Quantum Of Solace and particularly The Bourne Supremacy are very much alike. Also, seeing "Bond's" moments of revenge for Vesper was like Bourne with his girlfriend Marie. Forster sort of rushed the action sequences in this film. It felt like he was forced into making it. I think he was copying other directors with action films like Michael Bay, Paul Greengrass and Martin Campbell. I heard rumours that Danny Boyle was going to do the 23rd James Bond film and it is a damn shame he rejected it because I think he would have definitely shown a true James Bond film.


I am now going to pretend that Quantum Of Solace was never made and there was only Casino Royale and no sequel to it. The only connection Quantum Of Solace had with Casino Royale regarding the story was only the few mentions about Vesper. Other than that, it was like Craig was in a different action film playing a Bourne-like character. Despite there was action scenes involved, I was bored within the first 20 minutes and wanted it to just finish. I am speaking for most Bond fans here and for most people who have seen this film: Quantum Of Solace has killed James Bond. The 23rd James Bond film better not be as bad as this one. It's a coincidence because Casino Royale is my favourite James Bond film and Quantum Of Solace its sequel is the worst James Bond film. If it is I shall never watch Bond films again. I want Mr. Bond back!

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Quantum of boring

Posted : 8 months ago on 10 May 2009 01:57 (A review of Quantum of Solace)

Boring as hell, worst bond ever.... just another shoot them up movie....
where has the british humor gone?

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Only good for a rent

Posted : 1 year ago on 12 December 2008 10:47 (A review of Quantum of Solace)

While still better than the sleazy DOM-ness of any of Pierce Brosnan's James Bond, this one was boring, chaotic and generally pointless. James was jumping from place to place on a whim, his motives not quite explained or logical.

Still watchable but not great.

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The Bond Ultimatum

Posted : 1 year, 1 month ago on 20 November 2008 01:46 (A review of Quantum of Solace)

"I think you're so blinded by inconsolable rage that you don't care who you hurt. When you can't tell your friends from your enemies, it's time to go."

Quantum of Solace was intended to be the sweet dessert to compliment the main course preceding it (i.e. 2006's Casino Royale). By this I mean Casino Royale developed the characters and established the plot (all the vegetables, so to speak) with very minimal amounts of action (the sweet portions of the meal, in a manner of speaking). Quantum of Solace therefore establishes a reason for itself to offer nothing more than pure action. And therein lies the unforgivable, lethal flaw of this film: it's all action and style without an ounce of soul or substance. Even with the "sweet dessert" philosophy applied, Quantum of Solace is only marginally redeemed.

Usually there's no problem with an overabundance of action, but it's crucial for action to be two things to make it work - comprehensible and exciting. The action in this particular Bond outing fails to adequately adhere to these aforementioned necessities. But the film's predominant fatality is its over-reliance on its predecessor. Casino Royale established the story; however CR's story hopelessly lost momentum into its final third. The story was milked until the milk began turning sour, thus there was virtually no interesting story remaining for Quantum of Solace to continue. Consequently the story is stilted and convoluted to the point of non-existence. Bond dashes around an action arena shooting every individual he can aim for. He shoots first, asks questions later. He is grilled by his superiors for this, but the film's self-awareness of Bond's new killing policy doesn't redeem this flaw.
Quantum of Solace tries to do something unimaginable: it endeavours to compete with the Jason Bourne films. It jettisons a solid story in favour of continuing a story which seemingly felt already complete. The result? Fundamentally an extended trailer (that at the same time feels tragically underwritten) featuring our beloved Agent 007 in name only form.

"I am motivated by my duty."

The film kicks off almost exactly where Casino Royale ended. In the timeline, the first scene in Quantum of Solace occurs merely one hour after the end of CR, hence the first Bond adventure in history to establish chronological obligations to its forerunner.
James Bond (Craig) becomes obsessed with revealing the mystery behind a top-secret organisation known as QUANTUM (a modern-day SPECTRE). Bond desires to exact revenge for the death of his girlfriend Vesper (played by Eva Green in Casino Royale) who was blackmailed by the enigmatic organisation. His off-the-grid investigation leads 007 to Austria, Italy and Bolivia, along the way crossing paths with the nefarious Dominic Greene (Amalric, keeping both eyes open after 2007's The Diving Bell and the Butterfly). Bond soon uncovers a plot to control the world via the water supply. (Yes, the movie is about water. Why not make the next Bond villain intent on eliminating a breed of moose in Alaska?)

The principal flaw with the story of Quantum of Solace is simple: it doesn't have one. A conventional Sylvester Stallone affair offers a more intricate plot. In Fleming's Casino Royale novel, Vesper dies and Bond moves on. The truth behind Vesper's enforced betrayal is so clearly set up during the last film, but it becomes hopelessly lost in a welter of unnecessary distraction and abandoned threads. This film acts as a bridge to complete Bond's origins tale before allowing the series to proceed to more conventional Bond canon entries. In all honesty, every blundering frame of Quantum of Solace seems every bit as useless as the one preceding it. If the screenwriters didn't make Casino Royale so despondently long-winded, they could have summarised a fairly adequate Bond origins tale in the space of just one movie.

Marc Forster (the genius behind Finding Neverland, Stranger than Fiction and Monster's Ball, just to name a few) has adequate skill to tackle different genres with each new film on his résumé. Alas, action/adventure isn't a genre Forster is capable of handling. Director Martin Campbell offered exhilarating action scenes in Casino Royale as they were competently handled. But for this sequel Forster succumbs to the baffling technique of each shot lasting a nanosecond. When it comes to an action scene it's crucial to offer an opportunity for a viewer to confidently distinguish what is happening and, critically, why it's happening. A sequence intercutting an opera house shoot-out with a performance of Tosca is virtually impossible to follow. Veteran Bond directors have been capable of orchestrating action with confidence. Martin Campbell's sweeping action scenes in both Casino Royale and 1995's GoldenEye are simple to follow and enjoyable to watch. In this case Forster generates zero tension. As guns are fired and things explode, a viewer can't discern who's been killed.

70% of the film's 100-minute duration is action. The prevailing philosophy appears to be "when in doubt, cut to the chase". Every time an intriguing dialogue scene is established a gun is commonly pulled out and bullets begin to fly. Each scene develops into an excuse for action. The film tears, rips, bangs and shatters but says zilch. No pop. No fizz. No story. When the action scenes aren't handled well (and quality of action in a Bond film is essential), there's something gravely wrong.

Quantum of Solace opens with a frenetic car chase. There's a great deal ruckus occurring on the roads, but it's so perplexingly filmed, hence impossible to decipher what's happening and why. Cameras are placed at awkward angles, shots are too tight and it's outright jarring. Unfortunately, these poor filming techniques mar action sequences throughout the film. The narrative fights a losing battle with Forster's cinematic style and in the end it's the audience that loses. Valuable information is barely discernable in a jumble of dissonant images. No sequence of shots ever grips the attention of a viewer. There isn't a sufficient spine to hold the fast moving elements together. The opening car chase is breakneck (albeit jarring, as I said before), but the film's other action set-pieces are a decidedly mixed bag. There are a few crisp footraces, some semi-coherent punch-outs and an awful boat pileup that evokes agonising memories of the invisible car Pierce Brosnan tooled around in a few movies ago. After the opening car chase, the film moves onto the traditional opening credits sequence. The title song (performed by Jack White and Alicia Keys) is an abysmal cacophony of indecipherable lyrics and mismatched musical idioms. The title sequence over which those idioms do squalling battle is likewise disharmonious: conceptually clever yet visually grating. It's a pleasure to witness the return of silhouettes of naked women in the opening title sequence, but as a whole it's tragically unremarkable.

James Bond is supposed to be a spy. Yet the definition of a spy is one who employs convert methods while remaining underneath the radar. Here Bond is swinging, shooting, punching, diving and flying...yep, just like Jason Bourne. Being depressed about losing a loved one isn't an acceptable reason for Bond to abandon his orders. Bond is also transformed into more of a superhuman in this instalment. Towards the end Bond battles in an exploding building. Looks like game over for anyone human...but Bond utters cringe-worthy dialogue before miraculously escaping without even appearing threatened. The stylish, brainy secret service agent created by Ian Fleming (and established quite well in Casino Royale) is dead. He's been reincarnated in the form of a PlayStation game character. In fact, the abundance of stupid action scenes probably allows more of a compelling video game spin-off. But that's the thing - Quantum of Solace feels like a video game with all action and little substance.

The relatively smart character exploration of Casino Royale has been jettisoned. There is also a distinct lack of classy dialogue. All the explication confuses matters - from inaudible exposition (the dialogue is subdued in the sound mix which seems ruled by gunshots and explosions) to a Minority Report-style briefing sequence (it's so visually overripe that one's attention constantly shifts from the unclear dialogue to fussy imagery with little chance to extract meaning from either). For over forty years, Bond films have been standalone features with few recurring characters and few references to previous escapades. Quantum of Solace is a direct follow-up to Casino Royale, yet there is no recap of anything. If an audience hasn't seen CR for a while, how are they supposed to remember the Bond/Vesper romance? The Mr. White character would also appear pretty puzzling. But continuing the story where the last film ended probably seems so contemporary and the producers probably feel smart for doing so. After all, the Bourne series are one large chunk of connected happenings split into three films. This marks another example of evidence that Bond has become a clone of Bourne. That's the problem: it desperately tries to be something it clearly is not, nor was ever designed to be.

It's not a total disaster, though. The action is occasionally visceral, invigorating and hard-hitting when director Forster gets it right. And the colourful globe-trotting (while occasionally unnecessary) is marvellous. As much as it pains me to admit, it did pass the time and it wasn't boring. To an extent I did enjoy it. The stunt-work is to be admired, and the delightful mayhem (while not captured particularly well) is somewhat intense. The ending is also to be lauded. The film effectively wraps up the Vesper tale with a neat ribbon, and the scene is set for classic Bond to return (the gun-barrel sequence is even right at the end, signifying that Bond is now the Bond we remember).

Quantum of Solace is a bitter, incoherent, unclear, messy action film without any soul or substance. Poor Marc Forster doesn't adapt well to the action genre, with several quick cuts in the space of one second detracting from the film's excitement. The Bond origins story didn't need to be stretched into two movies. This film is just pure silly action. In the Bond canon it isn't the worst (Moonraker receives that honour), but it's sitting towards the bottom. Heck, I even enjoyed Die Another Day far more than this dreary film! As a continuation of Casino Royale, Bond 22 is unspeakably lacklustre. As a standalone movie it's even worse. Only die-hard Bond purists will have any reason to check this one out. The Bond Ultimatum is a more appropriate title.

On that note, an ultimatum for EON: return Bond to the smart stories with menacing villains. Also give him the charm, the trademark one-liners and womanising. And for the love of God hire a director who knows how to direct action scenes!

M: "It'd be a pretty cold bastard who didn't want revenge for the death of someone he loved."
James Bond:" I don't think the dead care about vengeance."

5.2/10

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very good, everything comes full circle

Posted : 1 year, 1 month ago on 17 November 2008 10:33 (A review of Quantum of Solace)

Despite what the crittics say about the latest installment in the James bond series Quantum of solace. this is actually what should have been expteced. With Casino Royale leaving on a high note(Daniel craig finally saying "the names Bond James Bond" and followed by the monty norman Theme song for bond). Quantum opens with a bang in which bond is in a car chase follwed by Mr. White's(Jesper Christiansen) Henchmen/bodyguards. the very opening scenes make you think that it might be a silent scene but this is not the case. the engines of both bonds Aston Martin Dbs roar to life with flare as well as the henchmen's. this is one of the various scenes thoughout the movie that does this. However, with brilliant Direction by Marc Forster(Finding Neverland) the scenes help add to bonds mood and current thoughts which is really pure genius in film making but nothing really new. Quantum is one movie that has many firsts for bond. including. the first Direct continuation between films,the first time bond doesnt say "the names bond james bond", and the first time the movie wasn't at least two hours long.(running at an 1 hour and 45 minutes). as far as things coming full circle we see that the death of vesper has truly affected bond in a big way, a way we have never seen before. and that bond does forgive people for there mistakes. Quantum of solace is no doubt a very different bond film but easily one of the best (just not on a standalone basis).

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Excellent Follow-up to Casino Royale

Posted : 1 year, 1 month ago on 8 November 2008 08:33 (A review of Quantum of Solace)

Quantum of Solace picks up where Casino Royale with James Bond seeking vengeance for Vespa's death. It's a quest that takes him from Italy to Haiti as well as Austria and Bolivia.
This Bond is less charming and more of a relentless machine, willing to do whatever it takes to get his answers.

The action is all out - sometimes over-the-top but there's a grittiness that prevents it from becoming cheesy. Marc Forster also puts in some slower and more human moments that form the heart of the film.

My only fault with the acting is Gemma Arterton - her character, Fields, doesn't really do much and seems out of place. Olga Kurylenko is pretty good - she does a much better job than in Max Payne. I have no complaints with how Daniel Craig plays Bond and Judi Dench as M is always excellent. Mathieu Amalric as Dominic Greene is a decent enough villain but sadly as a foil for James Bond, he seems to fade into the background when compared to Bond's presence. I was hoping for a bigger role for the guy who plays Mr. White because he seems like a better Bond villain.

My other quibbles with the movie are that some of the action relies to much on the shaky cam principle and that it isn't really explained who/what Quantum is. Perhaps they will delve into this in the next movie.

Even though is a more serious action movie, there are moments of humor - perhaps not the kind of humor people expect of a typical Bond film but I don't think that's a bad thing.

Thoughts on the theme song "Another Way To Die": loved the verses, hate the chorus.

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I haven't seen it and I'm not sure if I should...

Posted : 1 year, 2 months ago on 6 November 2008 09:01 (A review of Quantum of Solace)

There is always one film prospect a year that winds me up for no apparent reason and on this particular occasion it is Quantum of Solace: I can't quite put my finger on it but reinventing the Bond series just feels wrong. I haven't seen the film yet which, I know, makes this assumption inexcusably flawed but a fairly tepid response from the press and public alike only adds to my perturbation. Fair enough, Die Another Day and The World is Not Enough were poor at best, and sure the performance from Denise Richards was so unconvincing that even QVC Presenters exude more authenticity, and of course Halle Berry's spell as a bond girl was as interesting as a card board box but on the other hand they had great action sequences (for the most part) and some Stellar lines, I am sure that the future of the Bond saga was easily salvageable without this huge makeover.

I personally loved the swashbuckling - savestheday - overthetop - pompous British Bond. In my eyes it should be the aspiration of every young British male to indulge and liken themselves to this charismatic, quick talking action hero. Unlike his alter ego however, his new darker un-hinged persona just fails to capture my imagination in the same way. The character mutation is much truer to the Books may I say, so I understand why the writers decided to turn the Jolly James into the new Beastly Bond. But, is it wise or in fact too late to change such a well known and loved character into the merciless and understandably unlikeable character he becomes in the book?

I do not have a problem with Daniel Craig as Bond: Obscure enough not to be known by the mainstream audience while the only film to contradict this statement is a gritty and violent gangster movie, perfectly personifying the 'new' James Bond's character traits and aligning the star with the role. Audience buy in before the film has even rolled………...clever casting.

Still, I am having such trouble accepting this new character and with the exception of the first half an hour, the fact that Casino Royale was effectively a game of cards did not entice me into giving my endorsement at all. As you can probably tell from this very review my emotions are completely mixed about this particular set of films and I cannot justify it, I just don't feel that the new Bond ethos is right for the character we know and love. Maybe I'm just long in the tooth but some of the thinking behind the new Bond echoes the mindset that drives the new and unquestionably mesmeric Batman films. This reinvention has proved that a metephorical "mitosis" works and who is to say that Bond could not follow 'The Batman' down the same path to success, but this is what leaves the bad taste in my mouth, this is all it will be…..following.

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Nobody Does It Better

Posted : 1 year, 2 months ago on 5 November 2008 02:59 (A review of Quantum of Solace)

I have always felt that Casino Royale was the best book in Ian Fleming's 007 series, it featured a Bond who was noticeably different to that in the films that followed, a more human Bond. Daniel Craig captures the essence of Fleming's Bond better than any, including Connery for my money.

In Quantum of Solace agent 007 goes renegade in a raw story of revenge to find out who is behind the funding of the terrorist activities which caused his lover Vesper to take her own life. I'm ecstatic that the producers decided to make Quantum Of Solace the first direct sequel of a Bond film by picking up the action only a matter of hours after Casino Royale ended. And hope the series continues on this route.

I found the action engaging but over-edited in some sections of the film. QoS runs at a breakneck pace and is the shortest Bond at only 106 minutes. The strength of character Daniel Craig brings to the film, and extended screen-time given to Judi Dench made me want to stay with them long after the credits.

I especially enjoyed watching Bond and Camille (Olga Kurylenko) and their contrasting motivations of revenge. Bond struggling between a sense honour and duty too his employers and a desire to avenge Vesper's death, and Camille who is 100% hell-bent on revenge on the man who slayed her family.

I viewed the film with six friends and many opinions were thrown into the ring following the films climax. Amongst them... “The villains were weak”. This I can agree with. Environmentalist Dominic Greene (Mathieu Almaric) is less fearsome than the grim reality of his intended plans, but the Bond villains of old no longer have a place in this franchise. Mike Myers and Dr Evil put pay to that. 007's main enemy here is himself and his struggle to control his own actions.

“What happened to all the gadgetry?”. I won't deny that I would like to see more gadgetry. The producers seem to be more interested in product placement, on convincing you to buy the latest Sony Ericsson cellphone, than keeping the fanatics updated with the latest in the modern day spy's toolbox.

“I miss the cheesy one-liners of the Bond of old”. Daniel Craig is not Roger Moore, thank god. This is not the seventies or eighties. Bond is now a man of the naughties, there is no room for cheese in his fridge. Read Casino Royale and get back to me.

Quantum of Solace confirmed to me that 'Nobody Does It Better' than Daniel Craig. Secure a director for the next film who is equally talented and we'll have a winning combination.


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Quantum Of Slop

Posted : 1 year, 2 months ago on 2 November 2008 02:51 (A review of Quantum of Solace)

''Have you ever lost someone you loved?''

Seeking revenge for the death of his love, secret agent James Bond sets out to stop an environmentalist from taking control of a country's water supply.

Daniel Craig: James Bond

Casino Royale was a reboot of the Bond Franchise. Reinventing Bond and making 007 a more believable, grittier, cold Agent of MI6, breathing life into Bond again like GoldenEye did. So why do the film's creators give us this offering of disappointment?
Quantum Of Solace barely has the authenticity to actually be a Bond movie, with all the equations of previous older installments stripped away, to make this a realistic venture.

So we have no gadgets, no memorable villains, no Q and no Money Penny again like Casino. The result is a violent and sour affair, and 007 has become a uncharismatic charmless thug of sorts.
As for action, it is fast and extremely realistic but alot of proceedings are too close, too in your face, too dizzyingly incompetent. Like the makers again are trying to make a Bourne film. Let them remember this is BOND not BOURNE, we need a more Gentleman Agent not a lifeless copy visage of another franchise.

So the story of Quantum Of Solace consists of what, I wonder? What was the plot or Story here? It's hard to make heads or tails of the mess that I've witnessed. The scenarios, villains, and threatening action that resided over Casino Royale are curiously absent from this strange sequel.
The motivation of Quantum appears to be revenge, to be a look into his dark side and his few redeeming ways. He's a shadow of his former self, and this goes for the idea of Bond. It's no longer Bond when you change everything that makes Bond what he is.
Quite frankly all characters in this installment are 2 Dimensional cut outs that are never fully explored or explained in detail.

''I am motivated by my duty.''

The so called Story in the light here seems to be mainly concerned in covering Bond's private life, and the romance he had with Vesper from Casino. Did she betray him or not? Well there I was thinking at the end of Casino that she didn't, but Quantum draws the whole affair and plot thread line out even further. Much to my dismay, this unnecessary procedure only succeeds in giving us the audience the answer we had to begin with, feeling like we are going round in a huge circle.

So the new Bond Girls that enter the lime light on this Bond adventure, Gemma Aterton, is completely miscast in a brief, still born role, as an MI6 Junior Agent who comes to get Bond. Perhaps that was a joke I missed in the film.
A bedroom scene with the pair is not convincing at all and abit awkward. This film needs to be higher than a 12A or push the boundaries, because Bond needs a decent Love Making Scene to make it a Bond.
Camille(Olga) a Bolivian with her own revenge plot. Is extremely beautiful, has more action scenes than Bond, but the Romance between her and Bond seems to go stale before it even begins, resulting in an unconvincing snooze fest. Even the kiss they share doesn't have resonance or chemistry involved.

The real engine and star of the show is M who shows us a character who seems to know what they are doing. Although I do admit over-using M lessens her power and ranking. A sure sign that the director is clutching at straws.
Daniel Craig does the same thing he did in Casino Royale minus the one-liners and charm he seemed to send out with Campbell at the helm.
No smiles, no jokes and a very serious man makes for a very wide miss of the target as far as capturing Bond. It's almost as if I would beg on my knees for Martin Campbell to come back and fix all the wrongs Solace has committed by giving us this dire offering.
Marc Foster who's done The Kite Runner just doesn't seem like an ideal candidate for a Bond film, and it shows.
An attempt at political sophistication and debatable questions raised, are shots at cleverness. American and British Governments collaborating with Greene really is the icing on the cake. Not to mention having the names and characters ''Fields'' and ''Greene'' in the same movie. The whole Political side of things are done better in Bourne and it's depressingly apparent when you see this.

The villain Dominic Greene played by legend Mathieu Amalric, the star of Diving Bell & The Butterfly, but on this with all due respect, is the weakest excuse for a villain I've seen in a Bond film for an age. He's short, he's not menacing and has no charm or level of danger like Lechiffre did in Casino. Granted he's a human foe but he has no qualities to make him memorable or even interesting.

Overall Quantum Of Solace leaves alot of questions, no respective answers and gaping holes concerning what actually happens. If anyone can tell me what this ''Quantum'' was meant to be, I'd like that. Or the fact there seemed to be a shroud over the leak ending, and the shoddy song at the beginning sandwiching the whole affair together.
Bond kills indiscriminately, Bond is cold, and Bond's reputation has been tarnished and ruined slightly by Forster. Hopefully the next one will redeem matters, or we wait for the day Campbell comes back to reignite our beloved James Bond. And for Gods sake bring back some gadgets, charm and gentile ways while you're at it, otherwise I may as well be watching a Bourne...

''I think you're so blinded by inconsolable rage that you don't care who you hurt. When you can't tell your friends from your enemies, it's time to go.''

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I'm sure it would have been better if...

Posted : 1 year, 2 months ago on 30 October 2008 08:12 (A review of Quantum of Solace)

One note, Don't watch Quantum of Solance if you don't remember Casino Royale.

At least I'm sure that would have made it a lot better. I didn't remember much about Casino Royale and Vesper, and since this really felt like a 2nd part of a trilogy, it didn't make much sense to me. I think this is the first James Bond movie that doesn't work on its own. They talked about Vesper a lot, and I sat there trying to remember how she died, or anything about how the last one ended, and I know I won't remember how this one ended either. The last "big" fight was a disappointment and all of the sudden the movie was over. I kinda miss the cool tech from the old bonds, the coolest thing they had was a few flashy graphic user interfaces.

Lots of cool action, as usual.
Fewer naked girls than ever.
Quite liked the Bond song by Jack White.

And that's a quick review of a meh James Bond movie. 6/10.

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