Shunned like Ugly Brown

Rating: 7/10 (8 December 2008)

Let's start with the artwork, because the song was miserable and featured none of the trademark tried and true Bond music-making methods. Wait, the artwork is completely revamped too? No way.
It's dark and artistic and Judi Dench's M is the only consistency this movie has with almost any other Bond movie. This story was meant as a conclusion to it's predecessor and thus doesn't really focus on making a "Big" movie. Just like the director didn't go with "Big" music for the intro. In fact, Quantum of Solace is a small movie, quickly began, quickly over. I should note that Fields's death was a complete salute to Goldfinger, so there is one more throwback, if it's really important to the reader to prove me wrong.
I'm sure that you would like to say to me right now that after the superb Casino Royale it's a tragedy that the next Daniel Craig Bond movie didn't improve to the standard of say, The Dark Knight. Well, sure it didn't, but both contain wonderful little puns in the title, and both are the first movies of their respective series's to show a progression in the hero from movie to movie. Damn, isn't that novel. So why did The Dark Knight succeed while Quantum of Solace, uhh, I don't want to say it flopped but I was the only person I talked to that really liked it.
Well The Dark Knight gave glamour and an unreal amount of wickedness in the image of The Joker. He is the most obviously evil villain I can remember in any movie, ever. Quantum of Solace is more human, it isn't so much the battle in the sky of good vs. evil. There's plenty of evil and good on both sides. The problem isn't as straightforward as stop the Joker.
The reason many don't like this type of movie is because we go to the movies to be rewarded for our hard day's work in the form of complete unreality, sort of a economically legitimate/accepted acid trip. Quantum of Solace is no masterwork, but it does what it does well and during these times it will be crucified for it.
Long story short: Music- awful and new style doesn't work Movie- better than you've heard and new style works