Bond Destroyed by No-Nothing Director

Rating: 2/10 (26 November 2008)

Easily the worst Bond movie in decades, Quantum of Solace offers the worst photography, worst editing, worst continuity and worse musical score. The camera jumps around and tries to create Viewer Headache and any story is impossible to follow if the camera work is jumbled. Add to this 75% of the (sparce) dialog is spoken in a mumble.
Absolutely nothing but stupidity in the initial 15 minutes: smashed cars, broken glass, flames, et cetera. Well, gee whiz, we ain't never seen car crashes in a movie before. Wow! What follows is an almost plot less remaining 75 minutes, almost as stupid as the opening 15.
On the plus side we get a few good glimpses of Port au Prince Haiti, Sienna Italy and La Paz Bolivia; although there's no particular reason why the story hops all over the globe when the problem is firmly planted in Bolivia. The only other good part is Bond's girl pal Camille in her scenes at the waterfront in Haiti. She has several square inches of sunburn peeling off her back. Had I been there I couldn't have resisted peeling the dead skin. Peeling sun-burn is an underrated exotic experience, but Mr. Bond didn't bother with it.
Perhaps the filmmakers had too many lines of cocaine on the table, else they'd have seen the daily rushes and known they'd made one big sorry mess. But cocaine's like that: it makes a person full of themselves.