You fools are easily impressed.

Rating: 3/10 (19 November 2012)

Mixing things up and changing the formula of a popular franchise, doesn't equal a good movie. Casino Royale was a blast, Quantum was a let down. I expected a return to form, I don't know what happened.
The opening scene was terrific, I was drawn in immediately. I loved the Bond sequence along with Adele's bond theme too. However, the opening scene ends with Bond unconscious underwater after being shot and falling 50-100 feet. The next time we see Bond he's alive and how he survived is never explained. Okay...
That aside, the film was still flowing well, until we were introduced to the beautiful Sévérine, whose character was completely irrelevant. She's set up as the Bond girl. Bond tells her he'll save her and everything, and she just dies very suddenly. I guess it was for shock factor, and because it's different. That doesn't make it good, however.
Anyway, I'd be able to look by these things if the rest of the film was good. But it wasn't. Lazy decisions and pretentious shots of Bond trying to come across "deep". The whole plot was basically about some nut trying to kill M. Really? That's your best idea? It's as if the writers were thinking "what's never been done before? Ahh, we'll make it personal. We'll have a nice emotional scene by killing off a big character (M) and we'll visit Bond's roots. Then people will love it!" It goes from a Bond film to bloody Home Alone! Setting booby traps in Bond's home. It was ridiculous. Anyway, it's as if the writers thought their work was done after coming up with that rubbish. They should have focused more on a better plot, as well as the characters. We need a memorable villain. Has any of the villains in the new Bond movies been memorable? I think Jaws is a little more memorable than Silva. Everything about this film was just completely forgettable. Don't get me wrong, we didn't have much of a villain in Casino Royale either, but that was still a solid film. Brilliant actually. Then it all went downhill after Casino Royale. I don't know what happened. This film had potential, but was let down by a lazy, and simply dreadful script.
"This is the best Bond yet!" - Shut. Up.