Quantum of Solace & Happy Christmas!
Bond and his Qantums of Solace
We went to see the new James Bond film, Quantum of Solace, this afternoon. I should have realized that a film with such a ridiculous name wasn’t going to be any good. I have always been a James Bond film fan and have thoroughly enjoyed them all, this one was awful. I found it impossible to identify any kind of story line and very difficult to follow what was happening. As ever there were lots of characters who were clearly bad guys and one good guy who had been M’s bodyguard for 5 years who turned out to be one of the bad guys, but it wasn’t clear to me as to who they were working for or why except that they were going to make a fortune selling water! Which makes a change I suppose from oil or nuclear bombs!
There was a very exciting boat chase in which several ribs were destroyed by James Bond who was driving a metal dory.
If I had been the manufacturers of Aston Martin I would have been very upset that their car could not loose an Alfa Romeo which throughout the car chase was just feet behind. There was a lot of action which was made dramatic by the fact that the action shots were far too close up which no doubt reduced the amount of stunts that actually had to be done.
To be more positive, the acting was brilliant. But even with good acting I was so bored by the interval that I nearly went home, the very weak story began to hang together a bit in the second half and there were some spectacular explosions, a couple of the girls were quite good looking and sexy but not nearly as attractive as Ursula Andres in Dr No or Pussy Galore in which ever one she was in.
James Bond used to be funny and had some interesting characters such as Q, Miss Moneypenny, Jaws etc. This film wasn’t funny at all and had no interesting, amusing and eccentric characters. When we came out of the film I really felt that we had wasted 11 euros, arriving in the underground car park my slight depression caused by the really pathetic film plunged to an even deeper low as a result of Christmas carols being played over the loud speakers, yes b….y Christmas carols on November 15th!
November 30th, 2008 at 7:38 pm
I totally agree with your impression on the James Bond film their was no storyline. After i had watched it i was puzzled to think what was missing from the film and it was John Cleese with all his gadgets. I didn’t think that Aston Martin was advertised very well in the film also. The only good thing about it was the Sunseeker 37M Tri-deck and if you looked carefully when the girl went on the smaller sunseeker, i later found out by one of my friends Dads that has a sunseeker that it was the MD of Sunseeker.
Kind Regards
Ben
November 30th, 2008 at 9:32 pm
Thanks Ben, I’m pleased that you agree with me, interesting about the MD of Sunseeker, as I don’t know what he looks like I didn’t know who he was. Frankly I think that the poeple who made this latest Bond film have totally lost the plot - in fact there was no plot! Martin.
October 17th, 2009 at 12:21 pm
i havenot seen this film Martin, I doubt if I will, but I was not aware that any Bond films ever had a story line, anyway as far as I am concerned you would have mad a perfect Bond. Or maybe Mike Gouch ?
regards Mike.
October 18th, 2009 at 10:13 am
Thanks Mike, your quite right not to see it. I think that I have now seen my last Bond movie, but I still like the older ones some of which I have on video and will watch them occasionally. Martin.