Quantum of Solace is bad in a whole new way.

[Goldeneye]

Thanks to James for the original post.

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James Bond and the many inadequacies of “Quantum of Solace”

By Scott Eyman

There was a lot of public resistance to the title “Quantum of Solace” and it turns out that the resistance was correct. What they should have called it was “Generic Action Thriller.”

Really, if the main character of the film wasn’t called “James Bond,” the movie around him could feature Jason Stathan, or Vin Diesel, or any other actor whose musculature is more important than their dramatic chops. Bond in this film is merely a heat-seeking missile of revenge. They’ve gone out of their way to studiously remove everything that makes James Bond James Bond and of all these things the thing I miss the most is simple charm, which is, of course, no simple thing. (Lack of charm was Timothy Dalton’s greatest failing.)

It’s a strange picture in many ways, full of what seems to be great stuntwork that’s hyper-edited in such a way that you can’t really appreciate it. When it calms down for dialogue scenes, it’s generally dull. (Why did Marc Forster direct this picture? What in his generally moribund corpus gave the Broccoli clan the idea he had the wherewithal to direct a Bond film? Did nobody appreciate the classy framings that Martin Campbell gave “Goldeneye” and “Casino Royale”? And if Campbell didn’t want to come back, why couldn’t they get someone to do a slavish imitation of Campbell?)

In many respects, it’s the sort of ham-handed, 180 degree, over-compensatory re-imagining that would have been more understandable coming as the first film with a new James Bond rather than the follow-up to the almost completely successful “Casino Royale.”

There have been bad Bond films before, but they’ve generally been slack and slovenly. “Quantum of Solace” is bad in a whole new way. Repetitive and uninteresting, it’s one of the few Bond’s I have absolutely no interest in watching again. Ever.

[X3C]

There have been bad Bond films before, but they’ve generally been slack and slovenly. “Quantum of Solace” is bad in a whole new way. Repetitive and uninteresting, it’s one of the few Bond’s I have absolutely no interest in watching again. Ever.

Someone could make a spy movie where the person interrogated / tortured is being forced to watch QOS in High definition over and over. That makes it more torturous than the one shown in Casino Royale or any other visually obvious torture scene.