Oh dear, this film rather does drop you in at the deep end by expecting you to not only have seen but also to actually remember the last Bond movie Casino Royale and its overly long and stupidly complex plot and therefore manages to ruin your potential enjoyment of this film before its even been running for 5 minutes.
In my opinion the whole point of a good Bond movie is its accessible to everyone even if you've never seen another Bond film before in your entire life, this one completely ruins that notion and fully expects you know all the ins and outs of the last film which in my humble opinion is a very bad idea indeed as it will alienate a large percentage of its potential viewers.
The film starts with the capture of Le Chiffre and revisits the last movie with yet more parkour scenes but almost all of the action sequences are overcranked to hell to achieve quick fire action but resulting in scenes that are too fast to watch or pay attention to easily and that will give most viewers headaches & nausea.
The film has Bond globe trotting from Italy to London to Haiti all in less than 5 minutes, does he not suffer from jet lag then? The main problem with Daniel Craig as Bond seems to be he is too eager to shoot 1st then not bother to ask questions, not a very useful habit for a spy.
Characters seem to be disposable or 1 dimensional, most of them don't seem to be important enough to be explained (Rene Mathis is a great example here getting killed in under 10 minutes after you 1st meet him) but this is at least addressed by M and her extreme annoyance at Bond killing anyone that might be useful.
We have a subplot involving the bad guys dealing with the CIA and the reappearance of Felix from the previous movie (so they really are insisting you watched the previous movie or you won't understand more than half of this one), this also runs parallel to Bond being hung out to dry by MI6 after they pull all his credit cards and passports.
Action goes from sublime to ridiculous (Bonds insanely fast fishing boat with only a 40cc engine is a great example) and after another stupid action scene (the plane chase) Bonds female interest does briefly explain what her issues are (revenge for her family) and it is revealed the bad guy is damming up rivers to create artificial droughts. Basically this is an action movie with an enviromental sub theme, its not a Bond movie at all.
Theres no distinct bad guy (Greene just isn't very bad at all), no actual evil plot to try & thwart and the movie meanders everywhere just to resolve a minor vendetta for someone Bond barely knows and a very crap and not very bad guy involved in destablising a Governement by screwing around with the enviroment.
Theres no real ending as such (well there wouldn't be as there really isn't much of a movie to end) and you never find out what the Quantum Of Solace is or was. You'll probably be left like I was thinking "Is that it, when does the actual film get started then?" only the film never does get started, its just a sequence of vaguely connected glamourous locations visted by Bond. What little plot there actually is can be summed up as obscenely difficult to follow. Personally I'd avoid this as its not worth the effort.
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