James Bond: Quantum of Solace

Daniel Craig's second Bond adventure follows the story on from Casino Royale, and for me it's more of the same. Although I fully understand that Craig's Bond character is yet to pass training to become 007 and therefore he is still an unpolished character he still didn't show the arrogance and playboy-type qualities required to be the smoothest of super spies.

Although now he has finished his initiation and thus the movies from now on will allow more creativity on both the writers' and Craigs' parts, I believe that these two films have missed an opportunity to play on the characters naivity and natural swagger.

However for an action film, this movie has it all, gunfights, car chases, boat chases, aeroplane crashes and big explosions all set against expensive, exotic backdrops.

This, though, has not got the cutting edge that is required to turn a simple action movie into a 'Bond' movie. It's lacking that polish, that certain element. Maybe it's not been shaken or stirred...

6/10

http://www.007.com - Official site

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=59fvri1rfAA - Full length trailer