Quantum of Solace
“I did.”
That was what I wanted Quantum of Solace to be about. A man on a mission, dealing with loss.
It’s what the trailer pretends it’s all about, after all. It got me all excited and everything. It’s the kind of proper thematic character stuff that the excellent Casino Royale convinced me they could pull out of the hat. It’s everything the death of Vesper should’ve been leading up to.
In the end however, we get something that is disappointingly superficial all round. A mess of directionless storytelling, drama-deficient action scenes, and possibly the most flaccid villain Bond has ever bothered with. Worst of all, not only did it do nothing to develop the character any further than the good work we saw in CR – it actually took several steps backwards; relegating Daniel Craig’s Bond to little more than the kind of two-dimensional action idiot that should be played by Jason Statham.
Strangely enough, I found myself more satisfied and emotionally engaged by the Bond-themed advert for Sony Bravia TVs that was shown before the film itself:
