The wheel keeps turning

Rating: 7/10 (8 November 2008)

A car chase! A shoot out! A running chase! A boat chase! A chase with airplanes! And all kinds of fighting in between.
Quantum of Solace is edge seating action from the opening scene to, well almost, the end. The story boots up from where Casino Royale left and Bonds is soon in the tail of an unknown, yet extremely powerful organization, that has tied its tentacles around both political and business world. Main villain of the tale is Dominic Greene (Mathieu Amalric), who is seemingly a well meaning environmentalist, but in the shadows he has far more sinister ideas. Though he's not the head man of the organization, that is something we will see in the third Craig Bond, as QoS is clearly a middle part of a far more bigger tale that was spawned in "Casino Royale".
Despite Bond is always on the move, rescuing damsels, and pretty much killing before asking the questions, a thing that is noted even in the story by the M, and getting to his goal with a pinch of pure luck, he is evolving during the movie. A bit by bit, despite how small, he is gaining those traits people know him of. The soundtrack echoes familiar notes, while the rugged and arrogant Bond is slowly turning into more suave agent. It isn't hard to depict, that in the third Craig vessel Bond will be almost like people know him, but still not quite. Change is the major theme of the story.
QoS wasn't as good as Casino Royale was. But it isn't a bad movie either, it just seems to suffer from the middle part of the story syndrome, in which it thinks, that things, that happened in the previous Bond film, Casino Royale, are familiar to the viewers, as if you aren't, you don't get all the stuff that goes on. And the ending isn't quite as satisfying as it could be, as it clearly indicates a place, where the last part will begin.
But thankfully enough, the movie is entertaining. And that is the main reason to watch a Bond film.