In-depth study of the mind of someone called James Bond

Rating: Null/10 (6 September 2011)

The first time I saw QofS in cinema, I just thought, "this time there isn't a daring stunt that I'll recall several times for years to come". Watching it again when it finally arrived at free TV, I start to know what the film is actually about. We used to rate this film so low because we carried wrong expectation (2 hours of top-class escapist entertainment), and rate it with wrong standards (the classic Bond formula and elements from previous 20 films).
QofS is actually a in-depth study of the mind of someone called James Bond. He is in great sorrow because his girlfriend from the last movie was killed. The desert symbolize how dry his mind is. As he is unhappy, we audiences are also forbidden to have fun. Secondly, this film is about the relationship between Mr. Bond and a woman suppose to be his mother, or M. in short. Holy god!! what wrong approach is this!! if we want character study, we'll see an Oscar best picture. Also, a Bond who torture himself for losing a woman simply violate his own character.
Bond films should always make the impossible believable, we believe the oil tanker in THE SPY WHO LOVE ME swallows three submarines. But in QofS, even if the final climax take place at a real hotel in the middle of desert, I just think it is CGI for exterior plus interior done in studios. And not to say the dullest brownish title sequence ever, shown with a song that sounds more like quarrel than singing. Even worse, viewing it again I know what's wrong with Dominic Greene, he recalls me of... Howard the Duck!!
Maybe the saving grace of QofS for me is outside the movie. I attended the ceremony part of the charity premiere at HK, raising fund for the Wai Yin Association, a charity organization consists of former Miss Hong Kong. The ceremony took place at an open area next to the box office of the cinema, even people just pass-by could witness the ceremony. I could not afford the premiere ticket, but managed to collect one or two from the audiences (this was the only merit of the brief 106 minutes duration, if this is another ROYALE we had to wait for half hour longer). I will always refer QofS as "Wai Yin James Bond".
QofS has become the top three "chicken bone" Bond films ever (a Chinese saying: tasteless to eat, but a pity to throw away), joining LICENCE TO KILL and MAN WITH GOLDEN GUN. The filmmakers spent two movies to do the "realistic" Bond experiment, and I join the majority of the 100 reviews read here: please return us the normal and traditional Bond in Bond 23 which celebrate golden anniversary. (however, if Sam Menders really sign up to direct, maybe the worst is yet to come...)