Spoilers about Quantum of Solace in this section, so skip the rest of this review if you haven't seen the film.
If you delve deeply into the plot, and it's more complex than it really needs to be, then I later saw that a read of the
synopsis on
Wikipedia will help,
although like when you see any Star Wars film it's like "Trade this, Trade that, blah blah, yes, how interesting, and I know
who the good and bad guys are..."
Anyway, for those who HAVE seen this stupidly-named film, at the end when Bond corners the baddie involved with Vesper in
the previous movie, we're expecting a big confrontation and... all we see is when he walks out, and M, having confirmed that
Bond's left him alive rather than bumping him off like other random villains, she asks him, "Did you get what you wanted?"
and he confirms that he did. Erm.... why not show us something, then? Or is that something that'll be dragged out to the
next film? Quite possibly, it seems.
And what became of White, the guy in the trunk at the start who then disappeared shortly after, turned up at the opera and
then was never seen again? While it worked to have a link between the two films, taking it into a third wouldn't work anywhere
near as well, as you're wanting a fresh story by then.
There's also far too much cutting about and close-ups in the action scenes, so you can't really see 'the whole picture' as it
were, to work out where one guy is in relation to the other - taking the camera back a bit would've been a help there.
Also, Felix Leiter (Jeffrey Wright) was said to have earned a promotion at the end of the film, but from what I saw
he did practically fuck all.
Oh, and, who actually killed Greene at the end of the film if we're told that he was found in the desert not only with the can
of oil but with two bullet holes in the back of his head? Hmm...
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