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Not a great Bond film
11/19/08
Quantum of Solace
MGM/Columbia
Rating: G
105 minutes
Quantum of Solace isn’t as good as the last Bond, Casino Royale.
But Daniel Craig is becoming the best actor to play Bond, equalling, and maybe even surpassing, Sean Connery.
He plays Bond as a brutal and dangerous killing machine.
He is tracking down the people who killed Vesper (at the end of Casino Royale); turns out they belong to one of those organizations bent on world domination headed by a megalomaniac (Mathieu Amalric).
In Haiti he meets Camille (Olga Kurylenko), also after the bad guys and together they dish out endless mayhem and action.
All the action is the problem. While the action sequences are always good in Bond movies, here they’ve taken over the movie at the expense of character and plot.
From the exciting car chase along the coast of Italy that opens the movie to the endless explosions in the Bolivian desert hotel at the end, it is non-stop.
Action sequences often feature quickly edited, deliberately out of focus shots so you can’t really see what’s going on, but it looks exciting.
Judi Dench as M gets a bigger role, but Moneypenny and Q are gone.
There is little humour or romance. Bond was always a lover as well as a licensed killer, but only has one quick bedroom scene with Gemma Arterton
After reinventing the series with Casino Royale, Quantum of Solace is a step in the wrong direction.
But Craig shines at the box office.
Rating: three deer out of five
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Alf Cryderman is a Red Deer freelance writer and old movie buff.
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