The death of Bond

Rating: 1/10 (22 January 2015)

No, Skyfall did not save this franchise. It was the zombie of a corpse that Quantum of Solace had buried.
The crisis with Bond films started when the Roger Moore era ended. The two films with Dalton were not bad, but they just didn't feel like James Bond, especially the second one. They couldn't find the right tone, and Dalton - the best actor to ever play Bond, in my opinion - didn't fit the role, despite his talent. Then came Pierce Brosnan. He was a good Bond, but the scripts were not good. Moreover, already in his first Bond film, 'Goldeneye', his masculinity is criticised by the mew 'M' - an old woman who was put in the film for p.c. reasons. She even proceeds to call Bond a 'dinosaur' who is stuck in a past where crazed feminists do not rule over men.
And then came poor Daniel Craig whose muscular body is used mainly for the pleasure of the homosexual portion of the audience and who is no real man. He may work out and act tough at times, but he will always report to his grandma (sorry - 'M') and never challenge the p.c. dogma in any way. He now doubts himself, takes long showers to deal with his neurosis and pain, and apparently tries to get in touch with his feminine side. In 'Skyfall' he actually enlists his granny to help him fight the homosexual villain who apparently just wanted to get Bond to go to bed with him all along.
So how does 'Quantum' fit here? It is the dull, boring middle film with wafer-thin plot, unimaginative and poorly edited action scenes, and lots of weird cuts and scenes that confuse the audience. It ends with an anti-climax, and when credits start rolling the audience is left wondering why we still haven't seen the grand finale.
There is no sense of closure and the audience is left wondering about what it was they saw. It seemed like a series of episodes that barely fit together.
Ultimately everything about this film is bad: the script, the direction, the editing, and ultimately the values it reflects.