Quantum of Cobblers

Rating: 1/10 (31 October 2008)

This isn't a film. It's a product. And a pretty tacky one at that.
Here's a plot summary, without spoilers (in fact, it's difficult to provide spoilers for this film, since it is so clichéd and predictable): 'Action - thin thread of plot - action - another thin thread of plot - action - action - action - further thin thread of plot - action - end'.
Someone compared it to a Bourne movie. Excuse me, but those movies had some intelligence at work behind them: good characters, strong scripts, plots. There was no real plot here - just a droopy, threadbare line on which to peg out a bag-load of action sequences we've all seen dozens of times before. I've seen better scripts in films produced by art college film studies undergrads. And characters? There weren't any. Daniel Craig did his best with what was there, but it was a bit like watching a Cordon Bleu chef produce something worthwhile out of a loaf of stale bread and a tin of sardines.
Please... can't we just finish the franchise here and move on to something better.