Quantum of Solace (2008)

Strong and Moving!

Did you people see the same film I saw?

Bad Acting and worse Bad Screenplay

Easily the biggest piece of Right wing non sense propaganda I ever saw.

I only give it a 4 because of the nice scenes. The movie reminds me of Blair Witch Project, which I could not watch for more than 3 minutes. Every time there is a flight or fight scene, the camera moves up and down, right and left, wobbles, spins, and more, that the viewer feels like there is an actual earthquake, tornado, and cyclone happening at the same time. The other major problem with the movie is in seeing the bruises on the actors that would normally have a person cringe in pain. Instead, the bruised actors show no signs of injury. The last problem is that this feels like the 50th 007 film. Enough, already. Has Hollywood never heard of sequel fatigue?

Seen this movie (4) times, still dont know what its about. Casino royale was better.

Marc Forster's Quantum of Solace has been widely regarded as one of the worst Bond films of the entire franchise upon release. Whether or not expectations were too high after the excellent Casino Royale, Quantum of Solace is mediocre at best and shockingly amateur at it's worst. Daniel Craig as Bond is not the issue here. His performance here is strong, as is most of the other cast's, even if the characters aren't fully fleshed out as the previous films. The issue is the convoluted and overly-complicated plot that lacks the emotional heft and character drama that made Royale so good. The Bond girl is boring, the villain is laughable and the tone is all over the place. From a technical standpoint, everything is how it should be. Sadly, the human aspect that gives a Bond film it's character is lacking, making this entry noticeably more hollow than other films of the franchise.Even the action sequences are hit-or-miss. While the film opens with a rather impressive car chase, the following set-pieces never manage to create even a fraction of suspense or thrills contained in the first 10 minutes. This could be due to the rather shaky direction and overall goofy nature that never quite feels welcome. While Quantum of Solace is certainly watchable and admittedly entertaining at times, the overall lack of substance and memorable drama or thrills makes this entry to the franchise quite hollow. It doesn't have the immense emotional weight of Royale or the spectacular action of Skyfall, and being released between these two excellent films only helps to accentuate the flaws of this one.

For 40+ years, from Dr. No to Die Another Day and Sean Connery to Pierce Brosnan, the James Bond formula remained basically the same: The gun-barrel opening, a lot of action, Bond says a few catchphrases ("Bond, James Bond" and "Shaken, Not Stirred"), Bond gets the girl, and the film ends with the James Bond theme pounding in the background.A few years ago, however, a new Bond (Daniel Craig) brought a new formula (prequel) to the Bond franchise with Casino Royale, a gripping film that satisfies action fans as well as provides all the traditional Bond landmarks (albeit some in their inaugural forms) as described above. As Casino Royale ended, audiences were left feeling as if the "Craig Bond" was well on his way to becoming the Bond we know and love.The trouble is, the ending of Quantum of Solace does the EXACT same thing...with little to no character development to back it up. For a basic plot summary, Bond spends the entire film trying to gain a measure of revenge for the death of Vesper, his girlfriend, in Casino Royale. A lot of fast cars, unbelievable chase scenes, and M-defying later, and supposedly Bond has reconciled his past and now able to move forward.Unfortunately, nothing particularly engaging happened during that time to make me believe as if Bond really is a changed man. I think the problem is that Craig is never really allowed to wildly emote in a vengeful fashion...he harbors the same stoic expression the entire film. I would have loved to have seen a Matthew Fox-esque emotive rant that LOST fans have come to appreciate, but it just never happened. The strange thing is that it wasn't just overshadowed by the crazy action scenes...those were pretty much balanced for a Bond film. Just no emotion whatsoever.Thus, while I appreciate this film's goal of trying to allow Bond to move on from his greatest tragedy, it just doesn't work. I would actually rather see a Bond film such as "Tomorrow Never Dies" or "The World Is Not Enough", installments that were heavy on the schtick and light on the plot, than this heavy film that didn't really get me excited until the Bond theme blared before the end credits.Die-hard Bond fans will watch this film regardless of what I say, but this is a movie that you can skip and really not miss any of the early-Bond character development that was so compelling in Craig's first Bond effort.