A few months after its release, I finally got a chance to check out the new James Bond movie...dubbed "The Quantum of Solace".
I loved the series reboot with Daniel Craig in "Casino Royale", so I went into QoS with some pretty lofty expectations. I expected to see Craig brooding over his dead lover, and I wanted to see some completely impractical bad-guy schemes that will somehow end the world. QoS only delivered on my first expecation.
I felt the plot was a bit odd and haphazard. It was like the writer of QoS wanted to continue the completely awesome story of Casino Royale..but for only half the movie. The first half seemed like a continuation of Royale, and kicked butt. Once we get into the heart of the bad-guy scheme, the movie sucked. We have this huge lead-in and buildup to some new bad guy group called Quantum, only to learn absolutely nothign about them.
Bond kicks a lot of butt....gets at least 1 girl (did he ever score the "bond girl"? my brother and I couldn't decide if they hooked up or not).....but doesn't get to play with any fancy gadgets. He has a cool iphone-wanna-be, but other than that, nothing completely awesome like Pierce Brossnan's invisible car.
oh yeah...he also saves the Water supply for the Bolivians.. truly what british secret agents are trained to do......
btw - I just realized that I need to add 2 more books to "read in 2008" list - Casino Royale and Goldfinger. They both rocked...read them. seriously, save the 2 hours from Quantum of Solace, and read those 2 books instead. you'll thank me afterwards
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