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So I saw Quantum of Solace on Sunday. The basic idea is that if you even mostly liked Casino Royale, you’ve got to see this film. I feel like I don’t have to tell you that, though, if you were a fan of the Craig Bond. This won’t have spoilers or anything.
The action was mostly non-stop. The movie rarely takes a breather, and when it does it’s mostly just to explain some plot and normally has some interesting things going on in the background anyway to keep your attention. The movie is shot in such a way that you get confused, but not TOO confused. I assume this is to sort of simulate how crazy actually fighting someone can be. Not that I’ve actually fought someone to be able to tell you or anything.
But yeah, Craig’s Bond is an unending badass who gets some laugh out loud badass lines and fucking murders everyone. And yet, somehow, they’ve managed to give him some characterization without it feeling forced, cheesy, or unnecessary. He feels like a real person and not a superhero. Granted, that just makes moments where he impossibly survives without major injury kind of stupid, but you rarely care, because oh shit, here comes yet another fight scene.
That’s something different about Quantum from Casino Royale. There is no downtime. Casino Royale took a little bit of slower time to have Bond do some actually spying. In Quantum, if Bond starts trying to gather information, you know there’s going to be a guy for him to beat to death jumping out from somewhere in moments. It doesn’t get quite to the point where you don’t buy it, either. The movie walks that line really well on a lot of fronts.
The most disappointing thing, by far, was the title sequence. As much as I would have liked to have seen Bond get into a boss battle with four giant naked women, it just doesn’t work nearly as well as Casino Royale’s. I mean, take a look at it. Cool card imagry connected with how much of a murderer this Bond is. Nice. I think part of the problem probably was… what the hell was Quantum of Solace about? If you don’t know that, it’s hard to make a neat sequence that captures the film easily.
I do think it’s odd that I can be half-confused about what the movie was about and still think it was completely awesome, though. I mean, I think I get the plot, mostly, but it’s going to require another viewing (When I get it on DVD. I mean, I probably won’t see it in a theater again. Gods, I have no time for this stuff.) to get it completely. We stood in the parking lot after the film discussing what we didn’t understand, even as we were all going “Damn, that was a great movie.”

And seriously. Damn. That was a great movie.