watched the new james bond movie quantum of solace.
and i'm beginning to dislike bond.
this movie is proof.
james bond used to every guy's fantasy. smooth, suave, gets the chicks, has hot gadgets, drives the hottest girls. this movie makes this fantasy go kaput.
in an effort to make bond at par with the times, this new bond is rough, unneccesarily violent, and bland. in other words they made him a jason bourne wannabe.
the movie continues where casino royale has left off. Bond has captured Mr. white. A car chase ensues in the streets of venice and his alfa romeo is destroyed. please take that this is the only scene where james drives in cool car, after that he's driving daddy-type suv's. ho-hum.
then comes the interogation where they get double crossed by a double agent (wow two doubles in one sentence) the bodyguard of m, where white discloses about his secret organization called quantum. then bond chases the fiend on the streets of venice, where he kills him in a very delicate stunt involving revolving levers. after that its all downhill...
the story is as bland as judge reinhold's careeer. the villain is a nerdy geek called dominic greene
whose organization is a cover for quantum, who claims to gain from world's resources. For this movie, they want to own the water supply and cause a drought in Bolivia.
dominic greene is the lamest bond villain ever! he gets my vote for getting the most boring henchman. and he is not even intidimidating. hey writers, what were you thinking?
strawberry field's character is too underdeveloped. I feel like she's unnneccessary to the film.
what i like about this movie is that they made global issues real. Like the dollar losing its value, countries fighting over drilling, britain getting helpless in the race for oil sources in other parts of the world.
i just want the old bond back.
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