Why I was disappointed by Quantum of Solace

Rating: 5/10 (9 December 2008)

First of all, this movie brought on one of the idiotic directors from the Bourne series as the second unit director, which means you can't see any of the action well enough to enjoy it. The action scenes are therefore mostly a waste of bruises by Daniel Craig.
Secondly, and most importantly, this movie misses 3 opportunities for great plot development. Instead of utilizing these chances to make a truly amazing movie, the story skips ahead and doesn't reveal a thing! (SPOILER ALERT) The first chance is at the beginning, when the first Quantum agent is in custody. Every bit of information he provides is shown in the trailer, which isn't much. No additional interesting tidbits about the organization itself are revealed. However, this one I could have forgiven, since it is at the start of the movie and they had a chance to tell more of the story. Alas, the filmmakers never did. A second opportunity was missed when Dominic Greene is captured by Bond, FULLY INTERROGATED, and we see none of it and are given no clues as to what Bond learned. Bond obviously got all the information he wanted, since he left Greene to die in the desert. The final missed opportunity was when Bond caught Vesper's old boyfriend, FULLY INTERROGATED him, and again we see none of it and do not learn any of the details before the movie ends.
Upon leaving the movie, I felt like I could have watched the trailer a few times in succession and learned about as much as what was in the whole movie. I certainly wouldn't have missed much plot development. That, and Olga Kurylenko cast as a Latina woman was so ridiculous that I didn't even realize she was supposed to be Latina until much later. It seemed odd to have a woman with a name like Kurylenko, who is obviously not Latina, playing that part.
The major problem with this movie is that all the most interesting moments occur off the screen, in those missing interrogation scenes. After reading about the movie later, and realizing that the studios are hoping to create a series of movies with Quantum as the super-enemy for Bond to fight, I now understand that they are saving the interesting material to string out across multiple movies. I, for one, am not interested in seeing another Bond movie if that is the case. And I love Bond movies. I've seen every one that has been released in my lifetime, and most of the ones before that. However, if the new set of movies is filled with camera-shaking fuzzy action scenes with all the most interesting dialog of the interrogations cut out, I will no longer be buying movie tickets or DVD's for subsequent Bond movies.