Mark Tyne Good Bad Movie Review - James Bond Goes High Tech

Rating: 8/10 (14 November 2008)

Mark Tyne Good Bad Movie Review Quantum of Solace www.marktyne.com
Quantum of Solace  JB22 (Marc Forster, 1997, PG-13, 106m) Rating = 8.0 + extra ½ point for keeping the run time to under 2h. Overall Rating = 8.5 Bond = 8.5, Gadgets = 9.0, Sex = 7.0, Car = 8.0, Intrigue = 3.0, Villain = 4.0, Jetsetting = 8.5, Fights = 9.0, Look = 8.5, Song = 7.5, Titles = 8.0, Names = 6.0. Rating by parts: 8.5 + 9.0 + 7.0 + 8.0 + 3.0 + 4.0 + 8.5 + 9.0 + 8.5 + 7.5 + 8.0 + 6.0 = 87/12 = 7.25 ~= 7.5 "You can't put a price on integrity." Bond Goes High Tech. Daniel Craig Bond Flick. This is the second Daniel Craig Bond flick that really delivers (Casino Royale being the first). Lots of cool chase scenes by foot, motorcycle, motorboat, car, plane. Pretty decent plot, good look, well put together Bond flick. The good: Great opening car chase scene. Daniel Craig is a great new Bond. If they keep making excellent Bond movies starring Craig, he could well become the best Bond # 2, replacing Roger Moore who currently owns that title. Loved to see Bond off the hook and the most excellent new M (Judi Dench) questioning whether she can trust her rogue agent. Both of the Bond women Camille (Olga Kurylenko) and Strawberry Fields (Gemma Arteton) were quite beautiful. Cool neo-psychedelic realization of the opera Tosca. Nice montages of a horse race and a two man chase and an opera juxtaposed with a manhunt chase. There aren't any major points where the movie's pace flags. For a Bond flick, that's nearly a miracle. The bad: How come the bad guys are using a conservation nonprofit as a cover? Doesn't that sound like some sort of right wing conspiracy to make people distrustful of organizations that have the noble goal of trying to preserve our rapidly deteriorating environment. Bah! The intrigue could have had higher stakes and the villain could have been more evil. Hope they nail this in the next Daniel Craig Bond flick. The ugly: Death by oil. Twice! Coincidence? I think not.
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Mark Tyne is the "Joe Bob Briggs" of the Haight Ashbury in San Francisco. Mark is the Producer and Host of Miss American Fido (www.amfido.com) a comedy spoof of American Idol, "open mike" contest to find the worst, best and most average acts ever! (SF Ch29, 1st Mondays 8PM), the Mark Tyne "Ask Anything" Show (SF Ch76, 1st & 3rd Tuesdays 6PM) and Co-Producer of the "Death of Castro Halloween Funeral Procession" 2007 & 2008. Mark Tyne is an entertainment hound, entertainment reviewer & music composer and who lives in the Upper Haight in San Francisco. Contact Mark at marktyne.com & marktyneshow@yahoo.com
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