Quantum of Solace
by Marc Forster
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Actor: Daniel Craig, Jesper Christensen, Judi Dench, Lucrezia Lante Della Rovere, Tim Pigott-SmithDirector: Marc Forster
Brand: TCFHE/MGM
Cinematographer: Roberto Schaefer
Composer: David Arnold
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); French (Unknown); Spanish (Unknown); English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); French (Dubbed); Spanish (Dubbed)
Format: AC-3, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 2.40:1
Running Time: 106 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2009-03-24
Audience Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Studio: MGM (Video & DVD)
Movie Reviews of Quantum of Solace
Movie Review: It's Not Good But It's Not Bad
Summary: 3 Stars
Casino Royale was great and of course there was going to be a sequel. Unfortunately, we got this. It just doesn't feel like a Bond film. Sure there's a guy named James Bond who drives an Aston Martin and just happens to work for the British government and a woman named M but its just not the same. Whereas Casino Royale did feel like a Bond film, just not as much since they were exploring how Bond began. For the first part of the film, all Craig does is kill people left and right and there are action sequences one right after the other, which doesn't help much. About halfway through though the story does start to take shape with the introduction of the mysterious Quantum organization (reminiscent of SPECTRE) and Mr. White appears in the beginning and in the middle (a possible recurring villain like Blofeld?). I just don't think the producers put that much effort into this one, probably just thought people would see it because of how successful the previous film was. The acting though is excellent. Daniel Craig adds more emotional depth to Bond as recovers from the loss of Vesper. Olga Kurylenko is also an emotionally scarred character and will probably the one Bond girl 007 doesn't sleep with. Mathieu Almeric is pretty bad as the villain but that's not his fault as the Greene really isn't that interesting of a character. Dench continues to be the definitive M, conveying that she wants to trust Bond but wants him to control his emotions. This is David Arnold's worst score out of his five (I think its time for the producers to look elsewhere), sounding listless for the softer scenes and obnoxious for the action. And again, no James Bond Theme in this. Jack White and Alicia Keyes sing THE worst (yes, Madonna's is slightly better) Bond song, though the backing music sounds good, should've been an instrumental. Hopefully, with the traditional gun barrel used at the end, it will herald the return of a more traditional Bond film.
Summary of Quantum of Solace
Studio: Tcfhe/mgm Release Date: 03/24/2009 Run time: 107 minutes Rating: Pg13Daniel Craig hasn't lost a step since Casino Royale--this James Bond remains dangerous, a man who could earn that license to kill in brutal hand-to-hand combat. but still look sharp in a tailored suit. And Quantum of Solance itself carries on from the previous film like no other 007 movie, with Bond nursing his anger from the Casino Royale storyline and vowing blood revenge on those responsible. For the new plot, we have villain Mathieu Amalric (The Diving Bell and the Butterfly), intent on controlling the water rights in impoverished Third World nations and happy to overthrow a dictator or two to get his way. Olga Kurylenko is very much in the "Bond girl" tradition, but in the Ursula Andress way, not the Denise Richards way. And Judi Dench, Jeffrey Wright, and Giancarlo Giannini are welcome holdovers. If director Marc Forster and the longtime Bond production team seem a little too eager to embrace the continuity-shredding style of the Bourne pictures (especially in a nearly incomprehensible opening car chase), they nevertheless quiet down and get into a dark, concentrated groove soon enough. And the theme song, "Another Way to Die," penned by Jack White and performed by him and Alicia Keys, is actually good (at times Keys seems to be channeling Shirley Bassey--nice). Of course it all comes down to Craig. And he kills. --Robert Horton
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