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Rating: 7.5 stars

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Quantum of Solace (2008)

Directed by Marc Forster

Action | Adventure

Most recently watched by CaptainBigTime, sensoria, jeneot33, vivalaserdisc, elisabethwithns, jenerator, seanCduregger

Overview

Betrayed by Vesper, the woman he loved, 007 fights the urge to make his latest mission personal. Pursuing his determination to uncover the truth, Bond and M interrogate Mr. White, who reveals that the organization that blackmailed Vesper is far more complex and dangerous than anyone had imagined.

Rated PG-13 | Length 106 minutes

Actors

Daniel Craig | Olga Kurylenko | Mathieu Amalric | Judi Dench | Giancarlo Giannini | Gemma Arterton | Jeffrey Wright | David Harbour | Jesper Christensen | Anatole Taubman | Rory Kinnear | Tim Pigott-Smith | Joaquín Cosio | Fernando Guillén Cuervo | Jesús Ochoa | Lucrezia Lante della Rovere | Glenn Foster | Paul Ritter | Simon Kassianides | Stana Katic | Neil Jackson | Oona Chaplin | Brendan O'Hea | Rufus Wright | Kari Patrice Coley | Sarah Hadland | Jake Seal | Peñarandam Felix | Emiliano Valdés | Daniel da Silva | Elizabeth Arciniega | Alessio Sossas | Mark Wakeling | Susana Albornoz | Jacques Duckins | Anthony Hansell | Karin Lanz | Christian Heller | Dante Concha | Diego Fernández de Córdoba | Edwin Cedeño | Mike Pérez | Juan Carlos Avendaño | Rachel McDowall | Rodrigo Farrugia | Carl Von Malaisé | Robert Braithwaite | Raffaello Degruttola | Santos Varas Ramos | Antonio Gil | Luis Antonio Gotti | Jaime Newball | Guillermo del Toro | Alfonso Cuarón | Kamil Krejcí | Gustavo Nanez | Erosi Margiani | Uygar Tamer | Alexandra Prusa | Muhamed Gandura | Shamel El-Salhy | Tsedor Gyalzur | Daniel Stüssi | Karine Babajanyan | Sebastien Soules | Brandon Jovanovich | Martin Busen | Alexandre Krawetz | Dale Albright | Katia Velletaz | Emilia Pountney | Derek Lea | Tatiana Lavrentieva | Laila Alina Reischer

Viewing History (seen 2 times)

Viewing Notes

Before seeing NO TIME TO DIE I really wanted to revisit all the Daniel Craig films starting w/this one since I watched CASINO ROYALE last year in anticipation of NTTD getting released in 2020. Due to my move and whatnot I couldn’t get to QoS but decided it was now or never now that FF@Home is pretty much done (for new films). What’s really wild is that I haven’t seen this movie since its release and I wasn’t keen on it then. Time has been kind to this one plus my attitude toward film has changed.

I really like this movie now. It still has some issues like the hyper editing and the weak finale but the rest of this movie is aces. Mathieu Amalric makes for a rather sinister big bad just in his expressions. Just wish it hadn’t come down to a fist fight w/Bond in the end b/c there’s no way he wins that. But I love him just being this cold-hearted bastard. The low stakes / no world ending threat bothered me when I first saw the movie. Now I quite like that it isn’t some grand world ending plot. Not that it needs to be but I like the more strange angle of the water monopoly plot being the driver for the villain.

Also like Olga Kurylenko and wondered why she was so tan until we learn that she’s meant to be a latin descent which is so weird b/c she doesn’t have a good Spanish accent nor looks latin. Why hire a Ukrainian actor for that? Should’ve just made her from the old Soviet Block and worked it into the same story w/her family being killed by the general. The general! That’s Joaquin Cosio, the general from THE SUICIDE SQUAD and many other things now. Neat to see him here and oddly he looks older in this than in more recent films.

Of course I wouldn’t have known David Harbour back in 2008 but the real surprise was seeing Gemma Arterton! Definitely another thing that made this revisit so fun. Speaking of THE SUICIDE SQUAD I immediately recognized the location in Panama City that’s subbing for Bolivia here. They actually shot a lot of stuff in Panama City (the Haiti sequence for example). Again, made this viewing more entertaining.

Something that really stood out is how much action is crammed into this movie. There are three major action sequences in the first 19 minutes: the opening car chase, the rooftop foot chase and the first scene in Haiti. But it just keeps stacking them on like the boat chase etc. Had me wondering when the 007 films really went full-on action over the more paced approach for the majority of the film with the big setpiece at the end (ex. You Only Live Twice, the bulk of Roger Moore’s films).

I didn’t recognize the opening theme song at all and it is so weird that it’s called “Another Way to Die” but maybe that was the original title and they changed it for some reason… perhaps too familiar to the Die Another Day film title?

Overall this was a super fun revisit and I just love Dame Judi Dench so much in that role. She just gives no fucks.

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