Daniel Craig returns as James Bond in this thrilling, action-packed adventure that picks up where Casino Royale left off. Betrayed by the woman he loved, 007 fights the urge to make his latest mission personal. On a nonstop quest for justice that crisscrosses the globe, Bond meets the beautiful but feisty Camille (Olga Kurylenko), who leads him to Dominic Greene (Mathieu Amalric), a ruthless businessman and major force within the mysterious Quantum organization. When Bond uncovers a conspiracy to take control of one of the world’s most important natural resources, he must navigate a minefield of treachery, deception and murder to neutralize Greene before it’s too late!
- Audio: English: 5.1 DTS, 5.1 Dolby Digital, SDH / Spanish & French: 5.1 Dolby Digital
- Language: Dubbed: English, French & Spanish / Subtitled: English & Spanish
- Aspect Ratio: Widescreen 2.40:1
Daniel 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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March 16, 2008
#1
About 45 minutes into this film I realized that this was not about cute dancing penguins and chimney sweeps. Yowza, was that a surprise or what?!
About that time my wife came downstairs and said, “Why the **** are you eating ice cream directly from the container again?”
So I called her over and said, “Hey, come here. Do you see any dancing penguins in this?”
She then told me that I was an idiot and that the movie I was expecting was “Mary Poppins.”
So then where’s Bruce Willis?
This was totally not what I expected.
March 16, 2008
#2
I too went to see this film because of the free tickets received with our classic Bond blu-rays. Thank the lord the tickets were free otherwise we would have demanded our money back.
Nothing against Daniel Craig, he is a talented actor in some areas, but not as Bond. As one of the other reviews stated he is the most un-Fleming like Bond. Which makes him good, how? Bond should be Bond and in this movie he is a low level Jason Bourne action movie ripoff.
But that is not the problem with the movie. The problem with Quantum of Solace surprisingly isn’t the title and isn’t the non Bond worthy star, it is the director and the guys from the Bourne movies that were hired to film it.
The action scenes are a confusing mess. A really bad mess, there are times it is hard to tell who is doing what to whom, and even better yet WHY.
To that point the plot makes little to no sense at all. Beyond the brooding, charmless Bond going after revenge for his suicided girlfriend. (a foot note: she killed herself,it is nothing like when Blofeld murdered Bond’s wife.)
Holding a bankrupt 3rd world nation ransom is a good move. That is what Blofeld and SPECTRE would do right? Oh. That’s right he wouldn’t.. Why would anyone try to pass this plot off to the movie going public is the biggest mystery surrounding Quantum of Soalce.
As it turns out the biggest insult was yet to come, the extras included in this Blu-ray are almost non existent. Where is the alternate ending the director talked about? Where are the cut scenes? Could there possibly be a directors cut of this film that has makes sense of the movie.
No. Not on this edition which is ashame.
If you (are among the few who) saw Quantum of Solace and liked it you should pick it up on Blu-ray, it will never look or sound better. If you thought it was Okay then wait for the inevitable second release which will contain the extras which will make it worth while.
As for me I’m skipping this one and ordering the next wave of Classic Bond Blu-rays and if I want to see Daniel Craig in halfway decent movie I’ll watch Casino Royale, on Blu-ray of course.
March 16, 2008
#3
I bought this for my son’s birthday, you’ll have to get a review from him.
March 16, 2008
#4
I never was a Bond movie fan. When Casino Royale came out a few years ago, I went and saw it and thought it was great. This one was a big crappy follow up.
March 16, 2008
#5
I still don’t understand it. This is the same production team that had resurrected the Bond franchise, rescuing it from the Moore/Dalton/Brosnan era of self-parody, mediocrity, irrelevance and decay. Casino Royale was one of the best, if not THE best, Bond films ever, and Daniel Craig was the best thing to happen to the character since Sean Connery. And then…this, this garbage, this travesty, this lazy insult. Sorry, but we want Q back again, we want the gadgets (nothing unrealistic, mind you, just the latest techno). And M is a minor character, we don’t need her (or, preferably, him) gumming up the works with feelings. If the cost of retaining Judi Dench is giving her a major part with all those feelings, then I say give her the old heave-ho. And where’s Moneypenny? And we need a GREAT villain with a realistic plot (jacking up the price of South American drinking water? PUH-lease!). Get a competent semi-unknown to play that minor character, M, and spend the money on GREAT actors to play the principal villains. Oh, and another thing, the music was crap without a GREAT theme song. So, here’s the list for next time. 1. Great story line. 2. Great dialogue. 3. Dump Dench and cut “M”‘s part. 4. Bring back “Q.” 5. GREAT villain with plausible evil scheme. 6. Great music with memorable title song. 7. Oh, and action scenes you can watch without getting a headache from all the gritty and jittery camera-work. 7. Beautiful girls. And they don’t have to all have “attitude” without anyone having given them a reason to be cranky and ticked-off at the world. Finally, regarding Quantum of Solace, I would say to the film’s producers and director in the classic words of Roger Ebert, “Your movie sucks!”