Okay the second Bond film for Daniel Craig, here's my review for Quantum of Solace.
Plot: Basically starting right after the end of Casino Royale, Bond takes Mr. White to be questioned by MI6. But during the questioning, White reveals that he's part of an organization that they are completely unaware of; Quantum. This leads to M's bodyguard turning out to be a double agent as he helps White escape by attacking M. After killing the kills the bodyguard, Bond tracks down his contact leading him to Dominic Greene who is helping an exiled Bolivian General to overthrow his government.
This is viewed to very easily be Craig's weakest Bond film so far and is even viewed by a lot of fans - at least according to Jeremy Jahns, as a Bond movie that doesn't even exist. And while I wouldn't completely go as far as treating it like it doesn't exist, I can really understand way. Now first off, it's not completely bad. Craig for the most part is still starting to give us a new kind of Bond, we begin to see the relationship between him and M more, the action was good and we sort of got a little more of the story behind what we learned about Vesper in the end of the previous film. Unfortunately, the villain and the bond girls were bland for the most part, some of the things that Bond does is kind of stupid, and while I do more or less mean it when I say it's a good thing we got a little more about the story behind Vesper, it was unnecessary at the same time. There isn't a whole lot more to say about the villain or the bond girls, but how Bond acted was kind of stupid. He was more reckless because of how he's in total rage about what happened to Vesper. And how he and M keep talking about how he keeps killing his leads without a care because of it kind of made what was happening between them act more like something you'd expect from some TV show or something where they focus on just one episode just on the hero learning one simple lesson, only that it's done in one entire movie. I can understand how some people like this movie because of it with how that shows how he's still learning as he goes, but sadly that doesn't seem to be how everybody feels about this movie. Finally, when I thought more about this film after watching it, I felt that we didn't completely need a story to follow up Casino Royale. I mean granted the previous film left out what officially happened to the boyfriend Vesper had, but that's barely even mentioned. In fact, the guy isn't really seen until around the very end. Most of this film is just getting rid of everyone else in the organization which I kind of felt they didn't need to do that either. I guess personally for me when Bond captured Mr. White in the end of Casino Royale, I thought that there was no need to give up anything else necessarily. The man behind the whole thing and also has the money is captured, and so we didn't really need to focus an hour and 46 minutes on the next film (which makes it the shortest Bond film to date by the way), on just finishing off the remaining bad guys that they just introduced us to this film. So really when you think about it, Quantum of Solace was really a film that was just about wrapping little things up from what remained after Casino Royale, and not really anything else. All of which is not really needed considering the only thing I think they really needed to go into if anything after the previous film was the boyfriend and he's close to never even mentioned in this movie at all.
And that's my review for Quantum of Solace. It has bland bond girls and an even less interesting villain and the story and the motivation to what Bond does was kind of interesting but not entirely necessary. But it otherwise has good action, develops Bond and M a little more making it an okay movie that you're probably not going to remember as well as a lot of the other Bond films.
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