Ultimately disappointing as a Bond movie

Rating: 7/10 (8 November 2008)

Let's get down to business and focus on the fundamentals: Daniel Craig has certainly a superb acting talent and his performance is very solid. He gave his character a new quality and previously unexplored dimension....it's just not exactly the right direction of changes. Classic Bond convention that was built on elegance and personal charm is far from Bourne's raw flicks or Die Hard's heavily beaten hero. In QoS we experience a combination - elegant rawness with heavy beating, and it does not work so well.
Script does not help, though - action is condensed and dynamic (except the finale) and there's little time to focus on the series' flavour, whereas the main villain is extremely vaguely sketched as a character.
But that's QoS - an evolution of Bond and his emotions wrapped in a turmoil of violence, chases and explosions. It's excellent that 007 has gained depth, and yes - Bond genre desperately needed realism, but the feeling is not 'Bond-ish'.
Bottom line - as far as Quantum of Solace is an exciting and intense action movie, there's simply little 007 substance.