Sooo I watched Quantum of Solace last weekend with a few friends. Overall, I liked it a lot, but the ending was rushed and kinda underwhelming.
The story picks up quite literally minutes after Casino Royale, with Bond driving to Siena, Italy with a captured Quantum agent, in an epic car chase scene (rated 10th best car chase scene in history). When he gets to M, it's revealed that even MI6 has been infiltrated by the Quantum organization, and they didn't even know about the group.
The first three fourths of the movie are excellent, but then the story slowly degrades and becomes confusing. The Quantum organization is played up to be some massive, yet unknown, organization that has people all over the world, everywhere. But in the ending it seems like it has 3 people running it. The movie does a good job at making you root for Bond, when all sorts of things happen that he wrongly gets blamed for, as well as MI6 and even the CIA trying to capture him at one point. It makes it get pretty intense when the viewer doesn't know whats going to happen to him.
Overall it was good, but like I said earlier the ending was meh (yes, "meh" is indeed a word and has been added to the dictionary). It seems very rushed and doesn't really offer much closure (not many movies do, nowadays) The building where most of the ending took place was kinda stupid. Who would build a multi-million dollar building in the middle of the desert, that is laced with so many volatile fuel cells that lighting a match could cause the whole thing to explode? The movie was certainly entertaining, but I don't think its story was very high quality.
2 comments:
Jared-
I'm going to have to disagree with you on this one. To me, Quantum was just boring. The beginning was tremendously exciting, and then it seemed that all that the producers cared about was witty dialogue. To me, Quantum of Solace was just filler for another sequel.
However, I did enjoy your post, and bonus points for back up your use of "meh"!
I agree with you for the most part, but seeing as how I was expecting the movie to be a huge flop, it turned out much better than I expected it to be. I also agree that the setting was pretty lulzy and strange. I didn't really mind the meh ending, as like I said, I was expecting it to be alot worse. Dunno what exactly could have been more meh than that, but... yeah.
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