Action? Everywhere All Around the World

Rating: Null/10 (16 November 2008)

I'm a young fella, young enough to can say that I haven't seen almost all of the James Bond films and not feel really ashamed however now I feel true desires to finally read some of the books by Ian Fleming and watch more James Bond films. But I do watched Casino Royale and actually I haven't seen it since that time when I saw it on the big screen back in December 2006 then last Friday when I saw the second James Bond film with Daniel Craig, Quantum of Solace, I didn't had very clear in my mind Casino Royale (right now I'm in the same position but as soon as I can I will watch Casino Royale again!) however when the credits of Quantum of Solace were on the big screen I was thinking something like "I liked it, fun, very entertaining, Bond talking in Spanish (only a few words and some of them don't make a lot of sense!), yeah Quantum of Solace is a good picture but I kind of remember liking more Casino Royale". Now if you check the comments by IMDb users you will find that this film was a complete disappointment for many, a lot of reviews with 6 out of 10 stars and what I just write about liking more Casio Royale is probably the most repetitive phrase about Quantum of Solace.
Action? Well, everywhere all around the world, we see Bond in Italy, Haiti, Austria, Bolivia, Russia and we see him killing and killing. Is also funny that practically we see Bond in action on the road, on a boat, on a plane and even with an opera as background (probably my favourite scene), for me was really fun to watch those action sequences, Bond will not be interrogating on this one. But what's the story? Well I don't think is really important since basically is typical, we have a bastard who's Dominic Greene (nice performance by Mathieu Amalric who was completely unknown for me) and who's plan is obviously just for his own ambition however only we and Bond will know that. Then we have practically a lonely Bond in this mission but certainly M knows that Bond knows something. Sexy Olga Kurylenko plays Camille Montes and certainly the story of this character is nothing new, classic stuff: she will be in the side of Bond but she has her own mission, she wants vengeance against the one who ended with her family. So we have Medrano, a character who can be seen as an enemy but certainly with Bond facing Dominic Greene would have been enough however Camille is after Medrano, it was really fun to watch Jesus Ochoa as one of Medrano's men even that he don't says a single thing but definitely he is not as fun as that crazy Bolivian taxi driver who unlike Ochoa's character never stop talking! I really enjoyed certain details like Bond talking in Spanish and definitely I can write that Quantum of Solace is a nice Bond picture. Certainly I made that my own comment will not be really "valid" for those big James Bond fans just by writing what I wrote at the beginning however i really liked this film period. Oh and the credits sequence is really magnificent, I liked the main theme by Jack White and Alicia Keys however is one of the weakest efforts by Jack White that I have heard, certainly I can't say that of Keys because I don't know her music.
Finally, this is fun but don't expect Casino Ro see I was about to write the most repetitive bottom line in Quantum of Solace comments but I will write my own: in what I remember Casino Royale was good but not that fantastic, Quantum of Solace is just good so go and watch it on the big screen!