Quantum Of Solace: MSN Review

The answer, in Marc Forster’s stylish contribution to the long-running franchise, is all over the shop. 007’s pursuit of the mysterious organisation who turned the late Vesper Lynd into a traitor sees him travel from the sewers and rooftops of Sienna to an arid desert in Bolivia to the busy straits of the Panama Canal and an elegant opera house in Austria. What we wouldn’t give for his frequent flyer miles, even if they would entail using Virgin Atlantic – one of several promotional partners whose goods and services get an ostentatious name-check.

 

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All this to-ing and fro-ing, however, does little to conceal the central weakness in this 22nd official Bond movie – a convoluted plot even a criminal mastermind would have trouble unravelling. Okay, we know that it has something to do with Dominic Greene (French actor Mathieu Amalric), a nefarious entrepreneur who plans to take control of South America’s dwindling water supply. What we’re not so sure about is why James should waste his time on such an unworthy adversary, or what it has to do with a still-baffling title no one even bothers explaining.

 

Matters are further complicated by Camille (Olga Kurylenko), a beautiful sexpot who repeatedly crosses Bond’s path and has her own reasons for following Greene around the globe. Glamorous, resourceful and more than capable of looking after herself in a scrap, this revenge-seeking cutie would appear to be 007’s equal in every department. Why, then, do they not end up in the sack? That is one of many niggling questions we are left with at the end of a peculiarly joyless entry in the Eon canon.

This polished follow-up ticks all the right boxes mayhem-wise. Shame the film as a whole is such a downer.

 

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