First Bond Sequel - Might Be Last One

Rating: 6/10 (23 November 2008)

After the great Casino Royale script, this film is quite a let down. Part of that has to do with Mark Forester as directing only his 7th film. While he attempts to redefine the action of Bond in this more active sequel for Royale, his action sequences are often rough and choppy. There are several noticeable times in the movie where it seems everything just stops and then restarts after a jump in time (and sequence).
While two of the writers wrote this and Casino Royale, it is quite obvious that the script is not as strong here as in the last film. Action dominates this one and really it pulls this down in quality compared with Craig's first outing. The last one had more Ian Fleming in the writing.
There is a 35 year reminder of Goldfinger with a femme fa-tale killing of a woman coated with Oil instead of Gold, supposedly symbolic of the world oil shortage going on today. The action while hard and fast throughout the film just isn't quite up to other Bond films in the series.
Daniel Craig at 5 feet 10 inches is shorter than many Bonds which means he sees more eye to ey with more women than previous Bonds. There is less sex in this film than others in the series too. This film at less than 2 hours is one of the shortest films of the entire series.
The opening sequence is a car chase in which Bond brings villain in to M. Then M and Bond find out there is a secret organization which is inside of every agency including the British Secret Service. It is this organization Bond pursues the rest of the film including getting even with the guy who killed his girl in Casino Royale.
There will almost certainly be another Bond film, which could sequel this opened ended effort of trying to eliminate the Quantum. Hopefully the next film will offer a better story and more realistic stunt sequences instead of the choppy ones this film has.