Plot less and too short, but I like it.

Rating: 7/10 (21 August 2009)

Quantum of Solace begins at the end of Casino Royale (Craig is still driving an Aston Martin despite it having been trashed in CR!?) and Bond is out for answers or revenge, or both. He is going to chase down Mr White and those Quantum bad guys and beat the truth out of them, even if it means jetting from Italy to London to Haiti to Bolivia to Austria to Chile and to Panama (not in that order). Even if it means killing everyone that he meets in a suspicious camera-and-editing style homage to the Bourne trilogy. Even if it means bedding the female officer ordered to bring him back because he's gone 'rogue' and further defying M's orders. EVEN if it means getting involved in foot, car, boat, plane and bike chases (Marc Forster (dir.) wanted a bit of everything, apparently, just not a real plot).
The Bondy baddie is fabulous. He is Mr Green (Matthieu Almaric) – a government toppling, cruel-tongued sissy boy who couldn't fight his way out of an open door. The Bondy girlies are gorgeous (he only beds one, the aforementioned female agent, Gemma Arterton). The more significant of the two, Camile, played by Olga Kurylenko, is a Bolivian spy also out for revenge. She wants to kill the General that Mr Green is making the deal of the century with for a natural resource that will make the Quantum organisation rich beyond imagination. Camile wants the General because he killed her family and Bond wants Green so that he can find out why Vesper betrayed him. Two messed up characters, two acts of revenge and we get to see a lot of sh*t blown up by people in beautiful clothes in exotic locations. Great stuff.
Many have criticised this film for being plot less and too short. However, I say that what this film does well is realise a longer vision. The plot and character development were both done in Casino Royale so this film is all about revenge and endgame, no matter what lengths Bond has to go to. Probably, Broccoli and co. should have filmed CR and QoS back-to-back and released them within weeks of each other, but considering the current crisis they are facing, this point seems quite redundant.