Fantastic Action Scenes! But there seems to be something missing?

Rating: 7/10 (12 November 2008)

"Quantum of Solace" has all the trappings of a typical James Bond film. This is a very exciting action film. It is action-packed from the very beginning. It starts with a very rough car chase. How the Aston Martin can still move smoothly after all of those heavy hits and how James gets through practically unscathed is the stuff of Bond legend.
The film explodes a basic revenge plot into overwhelming proportions. It also brings us from one exotic location to another as Bond follows Dominic Green of the Green Planet company for some issue involving the Casino Royale Bond girl Vesper Lind. Action takes us from Siena, Italy to London, to Haiti, to Austria, back to Italy, then off to Bolivia, then finally to Russia.
There were chases and encounters on foot, and involving all forms of transportation, by land, by water, and by air! The editing of the scenes during the staging of "Tosca" in Austria, and the fiery explosions in the Perlas de las Dunas in Bolivia are definitely award-worthy. The parkour scenes were reminiscent of "Casino Royale," however it was topped by the amazing fight scene on the scaffolding with all the falling glass shards.
Overall, it was a good action movie. "Casino Royale" was better though, in my opinion. Rough-hewn Daniel Craig was really very cool in his demeanor and stance. His Bond is practically superhuman, yet still realistic (in some inexplicable contradiction of adjectives). Olga Kurylenko as Camille, the Bond girl, does not immediately strike as a typical beauty, though she did grow on me as the movie progressed. I guess there is a little bit something lacking amidst all that fantastic action, and I think it may have been the weakness of the storyline.