An unnecessary evil.

Rating: 3/10 (13 April 2009)

This is my first Bond movie. It will also be my last.
With a title like "Quantum Of Solace", and opening credits that include binary sequences and small amounts of fluid dynamics, I was expecting this to be a thinking person's movie. However, these hopes were well and truly dashed pretty early, and they didn't improve as I sat through the 90-minute film, seeing 85 minutes of action, violence and killing, four and a half minutes of sex and/or Bond chatting up the girl, and perhaps 30 seconds of meaningful dialogue that advanced the plot in any way. Not that there was much of a plot to begin with.
The enemy is not supposed to know the identity of the spy that is working against them. It looks horrible on film. Couple that with a plot that we've seen millions of times over (again, not that there was a plot) of a ruthless CEO/criminal mastermind that is outsmarted by the dimwit good guy and killed and/or given his just desserts. And the dimwit good guy escapes and survives everything despite the odds that are severely stacked against him, because it's a million-to-one chance and we all know how THEY turn out. It's just unrealistic, even for a film.
Dreck, garbage and just plain bad. The only good thing that came out of this 90-minute buttock-numbing experience is that at least I didn't die of boredom and nausea.