Quantum of Solace (Warning Spoilers)

[Curlew]

I must have missed the half-second extreme closeup blurry shot of it.

Of course, that makes perfect sense. Everyone knows Bolivian pilots are incompetent, and will gladly drop to stall speeds to kill a goony.

wouldnt we all

[crazyivan]

LOCK before you give the ending away spoilers.

[rpm]

Haven't seen it yet, but I will. It seems there's a universal thumbs down for the director. All he could do was quick cuts with the wobble cam.

[WWhiskey]

gets better as it goes along i thought , kinda fast paced at first tho!! hope i didnt give it away!!

[Sikboy]

I caught it over the weekend and liked it well enough. The Shaky cam was bugging me in the opening scene, but I guess I got used to it because I didn't notice it so much on the Boat or Plane chases.

I thought that the writing was decent. I didn't notice the mis-mash of sub-plots that were referenced earlier. Sure it wasn't as water-tight as you might want, but everything seemed to come back to the main theme of Bond's coming to grips with 1. Letting himself get too close to Vesper, and 2. Not being able to protect her. It's the same device they used in "On her Majesty's Secret Service" when they killed off his wife.

I was also pleased with what I thought was the modernizing of SPECTRE into Quantum. It gives us a sense of Mystery as each movie hopefully takes us a little deeper into who these people are, and how they operate. I think that in the 2000s, the whole global cabal of conspirators plays really well. I mean, how many people watched that Zeitgeist video and bought it hook, line and sinker?

There were some missed opportunities out there. For example, why spend so much time and energy painting Bond as having gone off the reservation then just let it all drop with M saying "He my agent, I trust him"? That was a long run for a short slide, but I suppose in the over-arching storyline (it seems that these new bond movies will be more serialized than the previous one or two off affairs of the past) it probably works.

It wasn't my favorite Bond flick by any stretch, but I did like it quite a bit, and would easily put it in the upper half.

-Sik

[Bosco123]

I havn't seen it yet, thats why I just scrolled over everything. I did see that the second girl is hot, but idk just yet. But I did like the first one, she gets a 9.5 on my vote.

[CAVPFCDD]

It was ok... pretty darn confusing

I've never seen a bond movie with so much action, there was barely any break from it for a story line to develop, there was just about 30seconds of non action in between the chase scenes, of which there was a chase scene in every mode of transportation (foot, motorcyle, boat, plane, car) lol

not the classic bond that i grew up loving, i know the guy who played Q died but can't they at least get a new guy or have M give him so cool gadgets, would have loved to seen a new "bond car" (stupid stock astin martins lol)

I liked the concept of making it more realistic but if thats going to be the case, bond should have died 20 times in that movie or at least broken some limbs, so if youre going to make it realistic, make it a tad bit more realistic, if not, bring back the gadgets, then i'll be happy with him surving anything.

[Saxman]

The problem is the last few Bond movies before Casino Royale relied TOO much on gadgets. It's not just that the two Craig movies are more realistic, they're also much closer to Flemming's original Bond.