That damned shakycam mediocrity!

Rating: 6/10 (15 December 2008)

Mediocrity.
That repugnant shakycam mania ruined the last Bourne installment and now it ruined Quantum. Shakycams always makes me want to go and find me a Blair witch to vomit on.
Except for that lone shot shooting over the tiled roofs introducing the city of Siena (but who could miss a shot of a place like Siena or Dubrovnik), the camera work lacked the polish that is a trademark of a Bond film. The excellent filming and editing values that made a crumbling Venetian building become a character in the plot in its own right in the first Craig/Bond movie, are beyond Forster's mediocre talent.
Forster tried, I'll give him that; he had 'em shake the camera like nobody's business to imitate some kind of exciting unsteadycam trend he saw in his own pointy little head. But as a director he worked really hard to share the fate of that Douglas DC-3 Dakota.
Even some un-action scenes looked like he asked some kid to hold the camera for him for a few pesos. Or liras. Whatever. Grazie... mediocrity.
Oh! That crumbling Venetian building in Casino Royale was mostly CGI, you say! Look at all of Quantum's action scenes! I'd prefer some honest CGI to Forster's shakycam mediocrity ANY old time! WHY SPEND SO MUCH MONEY ON SCENES ONE BARELY CAN SEE? The script was fine. Craig was again an excellent Bond, fighting against Forster's mediocrity.
But I will remember Marc Forster's name and heretofore vow never see any of his filmic eructations again. Yes! Boycott! I hate this loser for pretending to be able to make a Bond film! He is on my black list for torpedoing the Bond franchise.
Forster is as good a director as the CAPS LOCK key on my keyboard is useful.
I wish I could get rid of it, and him too.
Mediocrity RULES!