Fine thriller

Rating: 9/10 (13 November 2008)

Craig is undoubtedly the best Bond everlooking viciously mean, violent, harsh, extremely tough, a brutal killingmachineand his performance is understated, sober. He does not strive to fill more space than the role as written affords him. As for Bond in QUANTUM ,is he strictly a functional character, a stock character, a masque? Or does he seem smaller, because he's deflated? Not at all. Craig's Bond in QUANTUM OF SOLACE is as developed as fits an action movie. Bond has the size ,the fictional size he ought to. He's an action movie character of the right sizea physical role well made.
It was Craig who converted me to the franchiseCraig, following in the footsteps of the early ,'60s installments. What is taken over from the delightful early '60s movies is the atmosphere, the uncanny and eerie feel.
Four thingsCraig is excellent, the best choice for this role ever;--fortunately the comical things were dropped, no more jokes;--QUANTUM OF SOLACE resembles some of the early '60s Bonds by the weird, uncanny feel and atmosphere;-- Dominic Green is an awesome villain;--the girls were soso;--the Craig subfranchise is more Bourne than 'Bond';it's practically a new thing, a brand new franchise, enormously better than the previous one ,a sensational, suspenseful realist thriller more like Bourne.
I understand why this Craig franchise does not appeal to the Bond devotees; not only is Craig unlike Brosnan; he's also too unlike Connery as well. Craig is the decided negation of Connerydropped are the suavity side, the irony, the gadgets, the comic books adventure, the chic eroticismthis is Bourne plus some RipleyCraig's James is a beast, a violent threatening killing machine. Hopefully, this improvement is for good, the ancient Bond is abolished (not only in its decadent minor Brosnan avatar, but in the original prototypical Connery form as well ).
As a physical note, Craig is a very sexy and handsome man. His facial features, the carved lines of his face are the roleare Bond.
Dominic Greene, Medrano are convincing prosaic heinous villains. They're not fancy villains, but realistically corrupt people.
QUANTUM  is one of the best thrillers, independently of its place and significance within the franchise. It's an independent thriller, not a piece of legendary, a followup.