Quantum of Solace

Plot synopsis:
James Bond is driving from Lake Garda to Siena, Italy, with the captured Mr. White (Jesper Christensen) in the boot of his car. After evading pursuers, Bond delivers White to M, who interrogates him regarding his organisation, Quantum. M's bodyguard, Craig Mitchell (Glenn Foster), is a double agent; he attacks M, enabling White to escape. Bond chases Mitchell and kills him. Bond and M return to London and search Mitchell's flat, discovering Mitchell had a contact in Haiti, Edmund Slate (Neil Jackson). Bond learns Slate is a hitman sent to kill Camille Montes (Olga Kurylenko) at the behest of her lover, environmentalist entrepreneur Dominic Greene (Mathieu Amalric). Observing her subsequent meeting with Greene, Bond learns Greene is helping exiled Bolivian General Medrano (Joaquín Cosío), who murdered Camille's family, to overthrow his government and become the new president, in exchange for a seemingly barren piece of desert.
After rescuing Camille from Medrano, Bond follows Greene to a performance of Tosca in Bregenz, Austria. Meanwhile, the head of the CIA's South American section, Gregg Beam (David Harbour), strikes a noninterference deal with Greene for access to putative stocks of Bolivian oil. Bond infiltrates Quantum's meeting at the opera, identifying members of Quantum's executive board, and a gunfight ensues. A Special Branch bodyguard working for Quantum member Guy Haines (Paul Ritter), is killed by antagonists after Bond throws him off a roof. M assumes Bond killed him, and has Bond's passports and credit cards revoked. Bond heads to Italy and convinces his old ally René Mathis (Giancarlo Giannini) to accompany him to Bolivia. They are greeted by Strawberry Fields (Gemma Arterton), a consular employee who demands Bond return to the UK immediately. Bond seduces her and they attend a fundraising party Greene holds that night. At the party, Bond again rescues Camille from Greene. Leaving, Bond and Camille are pulled over by Bolivian police working for Medrano. They had earlier attacked Mathis and put him in the boot of Bond's car to frame Bond. In the ensuing struggle, Mathis and the cops are killed.
The following day, Bond and Camille survey Quantum's intended land acquisition by air; their plane is shot down by a Bolivian fighter aircraft. They skydive into a sinkhole, and discover Quantum is damming Bolivia's supply of fresh water to create a monopoly. Back in La Paz, Bond meets M and learns Quantum killed Fields by drowning her in crude oil (an apparent reference to Oddjob's murder of Jill Masterson (Shirley Eaton) in Goldfinger). Bond meets CIA Agent Felix Leiter (Jeffrey Wright), who discloses Greene and Medrano will meet in the Atacama Desert to finalise their agreement. Warned by Leiter, he evades the CIA's Special Activities Division when they attempt to kill him.
At an eco hotel in the desert, Greene tells Medrano that now he controls the majority of Bolivia's water supply, Medrano must accept a new contract that makes Greene Planet Bolivia's sole water utility company at significantly higher rates. Bond infiltrates the complex, kills the chief of police (Fernando Guillén Cuervo) for betraying Mathis, and single-handedly assaults the hotel. After killing the security detail, he confronts Greene. Meanwhile, Camille kills Medrano, avenging the murders of her family. The struggle leaves the hotel destroyed by fire. Bond captures Greene and interrogates him about Quantum, leaving him stranded in the desert with only a can of engine oil.
Bond travels to Kazan, Russia, where he finds Vesper Lynd's former lover, Yusef Kabira (Simon Kassianides), a member of Quantum who seduces women with valuable connections, and who is indirectly responsible for her death. Bond tells Kabira's latest target, Corrine Veneau (Stana Katic), a Canadian Intelligence agent, of his true intentions, thus sparing her Vesper's fate. He allows MI6 to arrest Kabira. Outside, M tells Bond that Greene was found dead in the middle of the desert, shot twice and with engine oil in his stomach. M tells Bond she needs him back; he responds that he never left. Walking away, he drops Vesper's necklace in the snow.

Tags: violence

Review:
"GoldenEye 007" for the Nintendo 64 set the bar high, for both movie tie-in games and James Bond games.
Since then, "Everything or Nothing" and "From Russia With Love" have done an excellent job of allowing gamers to feel like they were James Bond.
"Quantum of Solace" for the PS2 is the latest in a long line of James Bond games, and it's decent, but doesn't meet expectations.First of all, there's a difference between the QoS game for the PS2 and the QoS game for next-gen consoles.
James Bond looks remarkably like Daniel Craig, but the other characters look more like something from the Nintendo 64 game.
Also, the PS2 game is missing several of the levels from the next-gen version, including only one new level, the Haitian docks, as a consolation.Level design in other Bond games wasn't exactly complex, but in QoS the missions are far too linear.
There's no departing from the beaten path to execute "Bond moves", no playing with fancy gadgets (fair enough, since Q doesn't appear in either of the movies the game is based on, "Quantum of Solace" or "Casino Royale").
There's also absolutely no vehicle levels, which is a shame since the source material provided plenty of great moments to drive an Aston Martin, motorcycle, boat, or a DC3 plane.The game is at its best when its letting you reenact moments from the films.
Across consoles, first of all, rather than traditional cut scenes, most of the story is told through graphics like those on M's computer module in the QoS film.
Granted, the game has to combine the stories of two major films, but in the end it's still far too brief, and there's no excuse for the "tell, don't show" approach that skips over huge chunks of the plot and doesn't allow the player to be present at events such as Bond's assault on an embassy or the climactic card game in CR.Major characters are excluded from the plot altogether.
While Daniel Craig, Olga Kurylenko, Eva Green, Mads Mikkelson, and Judi Dench all provide their voice and likeness to the game, memorable characters like Gemma Arterton's Agent Strawberry Fields, Caterina Murino's Solange, and Ivana Milicevic's Valenka fail to appear at all.
Also, scenes from the movie like the Bregenz Opera House and the Miama science museum have been changed for video game reasons.
While both scenes in the movies were open to the public and crowded with civilians, the game has the locations closed, forcing Bond to sneak around them after hours.
This is the second Bond film with Daniel Craig and gone are the standards we have come to expect: "Bond, James Bond," "shaken, not stirred." Minor points, yes, but standards nevertheless.The movie is plot less.
A poor end to a once great character (glad I have the old ones on DVD).Daniel Craig doesn't know how to smile and the movie fails to deliver.
When Dominic Green says to Bond that he and Camille Montez have something in common, that they are both "Damaged goods" he has clearly put before the audience the crux of the film that is "Quantum of Solace".
The film picks up only minutes after the end of "Casino Royale" and we are presented with a very damaged and changed James Bond.
As revealed in the first film by Vesper Lynd's assessment of him upon their first meeting on the train, James Bond is a man who came up from humble beginnings and was given a privileged education but never allowed to forget his low origins.
Yet if you pay attention the character of James Bond as played by the incomparable Daniel Craig he lets us see that there are cracks in the armor.
In the end Bond does find a quantum of solace and ends the film in a telling way.
"Quantum of Solace" is a fast paced film that demands attention to the small details and respect for superlative performances by all involved from the director Marc Forster to the entire cast and crew..
I will have to agree with the majority on here and say that QOS was a let-down This movie bears no resemblance to the traditions of James bond wot soever.
No Q, no gadgets, no humor, and most important no real menacing bad guy with his side-kick (example gold finger and odd-job) i hope the next movie does not carry on along the same lines, they need to think hard about the next script and come back with a real traditional James bond theme.
The plot was so confusing, that I still have no idea what he was looking for or whom the real bad guys were.The chase scenes were not that exciting although the one with the DC-3 was a little different, but in all the cases the camera work was so jiggly that it was hard to figure who was being chased and who the chasers were.
When one can not figure out where the action is going, and who is who, then it has lost its intent.Not only that it seemed as though the idea was "hey its about time we had another chase" just for the gratuitousness of it rather than leading up to it like most other Bond movies.The title song has to be the worst yet for these movies and was a real turnoff for me, in fact I turned off my hearing aids about a quarter of the way into it to try and not hear it.The acting certainly was nothing to talk about either.
The women were totally forgettable also whoever they were.It looks to me like the Bond franchise has run out of ideas and steam and that it is time to retire this series.
Doubt that I will go to another one even though I am a big fan of James Bond, but the movies have slowly declined in quality and interest over the years since "From Russia With Love", and "Goldfinger".
I will be content watching DVDs of the better Bond films and re-reading the original stories from Ian Fleming.Final comment is that this movie was so exciting that wife went to sleep part way thru it..
It must be the same cameraman from Bourneultimatum, where the half movie was blured too - in this 007 its imho much more.Well OK, besides the Actionscenes that nobody in the cinema could follow, the storyline is very confusing too and the bondgirls are so boring.The next disappointing is, that there is no James Bond anymore.
Craig Delivers Another Royal FLUSH In The Most BORING Bond Film EVER..
Of Craig's depiction of Bond he writes, "Everything but Bond, who has been replaced by an Identikit action hero mixed in with incomprehensible CGI." As tattered and half-baked as this story was, I can only conclude that this film was a rush-to-market project designed to get everyone a paycheck.
The opening scenes in Sienna with the typical quick-cut fight sequences that so move directors today made me nervous and bored; the battling men just looked liked two angry Rottweilers.
This film features great cast and some good action scenes.
Both Craig's films are much closer to Ian Flemming's Bond than any previous attempt - no I'm not saying that is a guarantee of quality, but one thing does follow: the 2 dimensional Bond of yore is gone.
It's hard to follow the plot when Bond suddenly resemble an longshoremen.James Bond movies were character and gadget driven, plot falls apart when the main character is not 'it'.
Otherwise this is a very recommended game, and you might enjoy it more if you are a fan of these films (yes you also get to play Casino Royale in the middle of the game as flashback)..
-"James Bond-Quantum of Solace" takes place right after "Casino Royale".
-I've read other reviews saying that Daniel Craig's performance is ruined by that fact that Bond's character is in a constant rage of fury.
This is also a good time to say I think that Craig's portrayal of Bond is once again fantastic.
I hope that Craig comes back for the third because he may be the best Bond since Connery.-Sorry for the short post.
I am still not sure if I like Craig in James Bond or not.
Daniel Craig is the best Bond since Connery.
I personally never enjoyed any of the Bond movies after Sean Connery.
Daniel Craig though has, delivered a fantastic interpretation of the Bond character.
I was left in quite a philosophical mood after watching this movie, which is quite surprising considering all the non-stop action, fight scenes, violence, and the sheer pace of the story.To my mind, one of the biggest things that this film has got going for it is the way Craig portrays Bond as being full of anger; someone who is really living right on the edge of everything.
I think he brings out something in Bond that no other actor has really got to grips with.The actual plot is hard to follow, and some of the lines are a little cheesy.
They did change Bond from the old movies, but they did that with Casino Royale!
I went into this one expecting it to be the same old but was pleasantly surprised.I'm a big fan of FPS games: Black on PS2, Call of Duty 4 was the daddy but the servers have become noticeably poor since they released COD5, which, despite it's superior graphics and great gore, is sadly held back by it's WW2 weapons and setting(it's just not as fun, guys!), not to mention the MASSIVE maps online meaning it's harder to find the opposition and leads to endless running around.
The likes of Resistance 2 sucked for me also, poor graphics and aliens never really were my thing to be honest.I, like many other PS3 owners, just want rid of all the aliens/WW2 nonsense and to have, for a change, a good old-fashioned Rambo style one-man-war mowing people down action game.So Bond wasn't really expected to match up to any of them, and boy did it.
The story mode is better value than the COD games, it is longer, although I ain't seen the movie so was left a little confused by all the twists at times.The action is the best thing I've played since Goldeneye, bar possibly COD4 when it was first released.
The 007 pistol with silencer makes you FEEL like you're James Bond.
Par excellence sequel to Casino Royale, and sequel it is because this one starts 20 minutes after the last frame of C.R. 2nd Unit director Dan Bradley, known as action master of Bourne movies, does amazing job too, with white knuckle car chases, frenetic rooftop runs and specially brutal fighting sequences.
The new bond that has just came out Quantum Of Solace is an amazing film and Daniel Craig plays a great part in this terrific film.
Action from beginning to end and great car chases and pursuits and definitely one of the best bonds.With it being James Bond you kind of know how the story goes but this is a great film for the imagination and on all Bonds there is a bit of far fetchines and this is the same but one of the most action packed films of the year.
Presumably the production team have decided to remove all those traditional moments that most of us thoroughly enjoyed, completely spoiling the subtlety and identity of the whole James Bond character and leaving Daniel Craig virtually without a single moment of humour in the entire boring saga.
Even the girls are very disappointing and fail to add the slightest hint of glamour or sexiness to this extremely boring epic .It's possible that some of the original John Barry music may have helped the film gather pace, but even that has been reduced to short bursts of the Bond theme at the beginning and end.
Instead, the score lacks any particular theme or memorable melodies that normally compliment a decent James Bond film.I could hardly wait for it to end, and I am amazed that Craig or his agents did not demand some script changes to help keep him in character as James Bond..
This was simply not a James Bond movie..
I fear this last installment of 007 will leave lots of die hard Bond movie fans (especially those older than 30) highly disappointed.
No John Barry music theme throughout the movie (it only appears after the end titles); no classic line: "The name is Bond, James Bond"; no vodka Martini; no gadgets; no humor; no flirting with the ladies; this is just one of the many action movies out there.
What a shame if this is the way the future James Bond is going to be like..
All action, no plot It was extremely disappointed, especially after Casino Royale was so good!The plot and characters were weak.
I thought the best character was Agent Fields, and she got killed off after about half an hour!A lot of people have also stated about the title, but I think it's good, It's mysterious, it was designed especially for Bond by his creator (Fleming) rather than by a balding producer or already bald director!Too much trying to be like Bourne, not enough trying to be like Bond for me.
Things like great cars, cool gadgets, beautiful women with catchy names and bad guys that give Bond a run for his money.
Although Quantum of Solace had great action for a Bond movie it is lacking in the all the other departments.
The fact that there was a secret organization that MI6 doesn't know about that is everywhere including within MI6 itself was great and film makers should have run with it as a bad guy like secret service, not a group of powerful people who are buying up land and creating a drought to take water from not important countries.
On the other hand yes I get that Bond wants revenge for the death of his lover Vesper form Casino Royale and that sets up for a angry Bond and a movie with lots of action but Quantum of Solace could have went a whole different direction that would have made for a much more interesting film.
All-in-all this was great action film that doesn't live up to the Bond quality we have been used to..
I'm old enough to have seen those films when they were first released.The 2006 version of Casino Royale was, if anything, an homage to the original literary vision of what was, in Fleming's mind, a no-nonsense Bond.That's why Quantum of Solace is, for me, such an enjoyable film.
In Casino Royale, in both the book and the film, Vesper was a cipher to Bond, and he ended up both falling in love with her as well as hating her, never quite sure if she'd saved him or betrayed him.
And that carried over in Quantum of Solace.In short, Bond - like Vesper - is human, even if the events around him are, in the classic mold of previous Bond films, still as improbable as ever.
Daniel Craig is sophisticated, too (whatever his upbringing), is capable of the occasional quip, but exudes exponentially more confidence in himself than Connery or any of the other movie Bonds could muster.
The gameplay was quite exceptional, powered by the Call of Duty 4 game engine, with different controls and an effective cover system much like that of Gears of War. The missions were almost equally shared with both Quantum of Solace events and Casino Royale events.
Well...I also liked Casino better but I'm satisfied with Quantum as a revange movie.
Revenge movies have not much new to offer but I can't stop but playing the tosca scene over and over again (great music background) and Matthies dying in Bond arms is just a Perfect finish to his character (Giancarlo Giannini couldn't expect more).
If you are looking for something new in a Bond movie, a new facet of this character, then you will find it in those scenes.
Have fun...and rewind...if you like those rare, but exceptional well filmed momets of a new action character..
Another thing I was disappointed on was the (spoiler) non use of gadgets in the film oh come on a camera phone everyone has that, were is the laser pen and the exploding tire rockets OK I understand it's trying to be realistic and the direction is that way but it felt more like a bourne rip-off then bond.
overall the acting was really good, Dame Judi dench is awesome and olga is hot and i'm A fan of her, (spoiler)the main villain was very weak actually I didn't even know he was the main villain until the end of the movie, but I loved olgas sub-plot it was the best story line in the movie actually.
If your new to the series and only have seen casino royal then you will enjoy it as a really good sequel but it overall disappoints as a fan who has seen most of the films..
I should note that Fields's death was a complete salute to Goldfinger, so there is one more throwback, if it's really important to the reader to prove me wrong.I'm sure that you would like to say to me right now that after the superb Casino Royale it's a tragedy that the next Daniel Craig Bond movie didn't improve to the standard of say, The Dark Knight.
The Craig Bond Movies do not need this crap.
Use him and the characters, of course you need action and gadgets to make it a Bond.
These 75% Movies - KNOWING - is my most recent example, it is like the whole production runs out of gas at the end.
I do not know the specifics of movie production - could they create/film the ending first, when the entire production team is fresh with ideas and money to pay for special effects?