"Well. Tosca isn't for everyone."

Rating: 7/10 (8 January 2019)

The movie has one of the most enigmatic titles probably, in the history of cinema. You see it, and you have to wonder to yourself, what the heck could that possibly mean? Sure, you could apply definitions to the individual words, but then you'd come up with something like an 'amount of comfort'. And playing over the opening credits is a song that for the first and only time I think, who's title didn't match the name of the movie. Seems to me the picture might have been called 'Another Way to Die' and it still would have worked, and made more sense than "Quantum of Solace". Well, I digress.
Watching all the James Bond movies pretty much in a row and in some semblance of order in which they were released, my mind is starting to turn to mush. This one goes in for a fair amount of misdirection with the characters and the story line, which is not unusual, but I hate to have to concentrate so hard to watch an action adventure flick. If anything, the plot will give you ideas about how the planet's governments work behind the scenes, trading off alliances and allegiance in the name of profit. James Bond (Daniel Craig) is pretty much left to hang out to dry in this story, his credentials pulled by M (Judi Dench), and the CIA out for his head when he runs afoul of plans to align the CIA to support a Bolivian coup. And all the while you would think it's for both the good guys and bad guys to get their hands on a vast new supply of oil, but the principal villain Dominic Greene (Mathieu Amalric) intends to corner the South American market on wait, what? - water! I think this could have been thought through a little better than it was.
One thing about Daniel Craig - I think it would help if he'd lighten up a bit and crack a smile once in a while. He's an effective Bond when it comes to the action scenes, but he doesn't come across very likeable as a person the way most of the other actors portraying Bond do. Or at least that's my impression. If anything, his personality comes across about as dry as the desert he left Dominic Greene in.