STARRING: Daniel Craig (Casino Royale), Judi Dench (5 Bond films), Mathieu Amalric (Munich, some French films) DIRECTOR: Marc Forster (Kite Runner, Finding Neverland)
WRITERS: Paul Haggis (Casino Royale, Crash), Neal Purvis & Robert Wade (Casino Royale, Die Another Day)
PLOT: M wants info on a new organization but 007 keeps killing people while avenging the death of Vesper (from Casino Royale).
FIVE OBSERVATIONS
*DISCLAIMER: I did watch Casino Royale the same night as Quantum of Solace so the judgments may seem more harsh due to the inevitable comparisons.
4 Daniel Craig is still the man. I like Connery’s better but Craig is doing an amazing job as James Bond. He has some great lines, some great facial expressions and some great action moments. Great all around. I also enjoyed his scenes with M.
4 I was not a fan of the action sequences in this Bond film. It’s all Jason Bourne-style which doesn’t work well for 007. I like to know where Bond is jumping, how far away the villain is, what are the obstacles. There are too many close-ups. Casino Royale was much better. I did like the scaffolding/pulley sequence near the beginning of the film. That one rocked!
4 You could tell this film was directed by Marc Forster. The studio made a bad choice. Bad MGM. Forster tried to get all artsy with action scenes paralleled with operas and horse races. I like artsy, but not in a James Bond film.
4 The villain was not villainous enough. Whatever happened to supervillains like Goldfinger? Also this Bond film didn’t have a torture scene. Bond needs to get tortured. Slow-moving laser, dipped in something, rope swing to the balls. Something!
4 This seems minor but I hated the fonts that were used to introduce each locale. It was a like a little kid making a poster using twenty different styles of writing. Put the location in one of the corners and leave it at that. I was offended as a video editor.
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