Bond, James---OOPS bad attempt to rip off Bourne

Rating: 4/10 (25 March 2009)

Quantum of Solace is another bit of evidence that the James Bond series should have been put to rest after Goldfinger. This extremely long suffering series of movies is just one repeat after another. Once more we have to start the movie with the idiotic silhouettes of naked women dancing while an extremely pitiful song is sung in the background.
The movie starts out with a long car chase scene, followed by about 2 minutes of story and dialog, followed by a long drawn out fight/chase scene, then another short storyline/dialog scene, followed by a long boat chase---etc, etc. There is about 15 total minutes of storyline surrounded by lengthy chase scenes. Nothing is new or original in this movie. Daniel Craig looks like he is just a lifeless person and does nothing to further any type of characterization. The story is so weak that it had to be supplemented with an extreme amount of action scenes (and not very good ones to talk about) and when the movie ends you sit there thinking "that is it?". The editing is pitiful and it feels like a great many important dialog scenes were left out that would have made the ending more conclusive.
This movie is not the worse of the Bond films, but it is not a good film. The one scene that really makes you notice there is nothing original and that the screenwriters are clueless is when they perfectly lay a female victim out exactly like the young lady in Goldfinger---the only difference is that she is covered in oil rather than gold.
Bourne is what secret agent movies should be---Bond tries to rip some of that magic off, but it is a poor attempt to replicate Bourne. Bond is a horrible example of a secret agent and it is time to put this awful series to rest.