After hours of putting up Christmas trees yesterday to reset our stage for the Advent Season I needed a little time relaxing… so quite a few of us from work headed to the theater to see Quantum of Solace. I had heard some people were a little disappointed by this one… and I know why, but I must respectfully disagree with them.
There were no gadgets (Q hasn’t even been in the last 2 movies), there weren’t any really witty one liners… Bond was a man with a purpose and still really rough around the edges (in keeping with this being the beginning of Bond’s 007 career). It was a hard-pounding, rough and gritty movie. Marc Forster (director of Monster’s Ball and Stranger than Fiction) did an amazing job directing… adding some tasteful slow motion and well cut action scenes (something a little more than just the average and mediocre quick-cut all handheld that has become the norm lately). To top it off there’s actual character development of Bond’s character, it’s nice to see him learning and growing instead of the usual – I am the epitome and pinnacle of secret agents everywhere. He has his charm, but he’s volatile and unpredictable. He’s got class when he wants to, but he defaults to brute force if things get too dicey – at least until he learns different.
All in all I found it a rather enjoyable movie and I’m glad it didn’t fit the traditional Bond mold.
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