theresamgill To understand this film, think of it as a trigger-happy Bourne film. And I mean that in one of the worst ways possible. The editing is atrocious. The film takes a Matrix Reloaded approach and stacks action on action; however, it's not even as successful as that film. The opening action sequence has one decent moment, but anyone able to follow the rapid edits deserves an award. What such rapid editing tends to correlate with is weak content to begin with. Some well thought out long shots could've worked effectively, but the truth is that there just isn't anything special about the action set-pieces besides perhaps locale. And don't even mention the parachute opening 10 feet above the ground. You can't walk away from that without an injury.Although I can appreciate some of what Jack White accomplished with "Another Way to Die," Alicia Keys only takes away from the song-- making it and the corresponding animation the worst theme as well. The Bond Girls are the worst as well. Let's see, what other worsts does it have... Oh yeah! The villain is so uninteresting. And it's so obvious during the climax that there's no way he could even put up a fight against Bond.Despite going for the darker, remorseless tone, I actually felt that Daniel Craig brought some of his greatest charm in this film. Even though there really isn't any cool dialogue to accompany him, I feel that after already having one round as the famous Brit, Craig was tailored in his approach to the character, and it's one of the aspects that pays off for the film.But enough praise. The film has annoying characters, and even when trying to fit elements from the previous film, the plot is so basic and not memorable in any way. But when you have an action flick, almost all can be forgiven with quality action. And the film just falls flat. Not only is this the worst Craig Bond film, it just isn't a quality picture. It's a misstep, and that probably contributed to the gap between this film and the next one. You can find this review and dozens of others at gillipediamoviereviews.blogspot.com

cinemajesty Movie Review: "007: Quantum Of Solace"Since Columbia Pictures supported Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer in distributing "Casino Royale" from November 2006, here comes the first back-to-back sequel in James Bond history in which actor Daniel Craig gives his second performance as 007 by bringing the world-famous character in another state of hard-boiled female-drop-off manners after Sean Connery in "Diamonds Are Forever" (1971) and Timothy Dalton in "Licence To Kill" (1989).Producers Barbara Broccoli and Michael G. Wilson land major deals with product placement companies from car manufacturer Aston Martin to Omega Swiss watches in order to raise an over-paid 200 Million Dollar budget for director Marc Forster, at age 37, who together with long-term collaborators Roberto Schaefer for cinematography and Matt Chesse in the editorial department are unable to deliver an exceeding successor for a calmly-received over intensely thrilling to throughout suspenseful "Casino Royale" directed by Martin Campbell. The first-look editorial of "Quantum of Solace" became a vast machine of high-class action coverage with the most innovative camera movements and shot angles, which even in this suspenseless high-speed, less then 1.5 second shot-paced editorial of a minot hundred minutes, polished by second-hand editor Richard Pearson leaving the audience in a fair state of action-movie splendor, which could have been a Bond movie for the ages under stricter direction.The original screenplay by Eon Productions staff-writers Robert Wade & Neal Purvis, which needed the support of superior-screenwriter Paul Haggis in order to come to terms concerning the producers approval. Director Marc Forster shows his strong suit in some single scenes of directing a fine supporting cast featuring 22-year-old newcomer Gemma Aterton as uplifting character Strawberry Fields, Jeffrey Wright as reprising character Felix Leiter, sitting with 007 at a bar counter with just 30 seconds left to make a major decision and always-professional actress Dame Judi Dench as "M", who cannot convince James Bond to leave the past behind after Vesper Lynd's death in Venice before a pale-appearing character close-to-be a larger organizations' henchman character of Dominic Greene, portrayed with nevertheless French-charms and some sophistations by actor Mathieu Almaric, who has the looks, but does hardly put 007 into any life-threatening danger, when Bond meets the character of villain-deserting Camille, given face by actress Olga Kurylenko, who again is no match for the car over to foot-chasing and then getting-chased into plane crashing constant-striving Bond portrayal ingnited by relentless Daniel Craig.Why "Quantum of Solace" stays watchable after 10 years on the market lies with the beyond-belief job executions in the 2nd unit department directed by Dan Bradley and torch-receiving production designer Dennis Gassner, who continues in best tradition the work of nine times collaborating production designer Peter Lamont, when the music composed by David Arnold elivates the overly-done soundscape of Bond 22 with another classic-enough main theme sung by Alicia Keys and Jack White.© 2017 Felix Alexander Dausend (Cinemajesty Entertainments LLC)

bpilato-08111 Seen this movie (4) times, still dont know what its about. Casino royale was better.

zkonedog 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.