What makes it different from others?

Too many fans seem to be blown away

Don't Believe the Hype

It is an exhilarating, distressing, funny and profound film, with one of the more memorable film scores in years,

Firstly, opening sequence picking right from where Casino Royale ended. Incredible car chase. Stunningly filmed. Puts a massive smile on your face. And a set grimace on Bond's, which is carried through the movie. Put into perspective, Casino Royale started the franchise over. Fresh start with a fresh faced Bond, new to the 00 business. This one puts him right where he should be; rose coloured lenses smashed, and trying to sort his head out in this world of agents, double agents, being used, and using people. Takes a hard soul to survive, and Daniel Craig is excellent, taking us on a journey where we see Bond trying to get comfortable in his skin. If us as an audience are left uncomfortable, good. This is how we are supposed to feel, empathising with a character who inhabits a nightmarish world, but must come out as the hero. Which he does, closing the circle of guilt left through Vesper's death, and leaving the path clear for Skyfall. This movie is like Empire in Star Wars, a dark mid chapter which is needed in order to develop characters and lead to a resolution only to be delivered by the next movie. Seen on its own, it can feel out of place; but as part of the 007 cannon, a great foundation from which all further stories will grow and develop. Enjoy it.

I only give it a 4 because of the nice scenes. The movie reminds me of Blair Witch Project, which I could not watch for more than 3 minutes. Every time there is a flight or fight scene, the camera moves up and down, right and left, wobbles, spins, and more, that the viewer feels like there is an actual earthquake, tornado, and cyclone happening at the same time. The other major problem with the movie is in seeing the bruises on the actors that would normally have a person cringe in pain. Instead, the bruised actors show no signs of injury. The last problem is that this feels like the 50th 007 film. Enough, already. Has Hollywood never heard of sequel fatigue?

Bond's back, in this latest instalment of the forty-year-plus franchise. QUANTUM OF SOLACE sees Daniel Craig returning to the role of Britain's grittiest spy after the success of CASINO ROYALE, and many fans will be asking whether this film can live up to the last one. Many feel that CASINO ROYALE breathed new life into a film series which had become stale and frankly boring. The answer is no: QUANTUM OF SOLACE is no match for its predecessor. But it's still a good movie.The action kicks off seemingly minutes after the end of CASINO ROYALE. Bond has one of the bad guys locked in the boot of his car, and sub-machine gun wielding thugs are hot on his tail in a frenzied car chase, a pre-credits sequence and one of the year's best. From thereon in we're thrown into a plot involving a tycoon planning to steal an entire country's water resources. Action is the emphasis here; at times, the story feels lightweight, an excuse to hold together a string of increasingly frenetic chases and fights. The excitement is very much in the style of the Bourne franchise: frantically edited, reliant on stunt work over computer graphics, although some unwelcome CGI is present in a couple of scenes.Craig slips back into the role with ease, as do returning actors Jeffrey Wright, Judi Dench, and Giancarlo Giannini. The newcomers do well too, with Mathieu Amalric making for a suitably slimy villain and Olga Kurylenko a sultry female fighter. Only Gemma Arterton as Agent Fields jars, a '60s-era Bond girl looking and feeling incongruous in the rebooted film series. As an action adventure, QUANTUM OF SOLACE is simple, fun fare: a slim, pared-down, white knuckle ride of a movie.

James Bond (Daniel Craig) chases the CEO of a dubious company, Dominic Greene (Mathieu Amalric) who talks a lot about ecology and gives to charity, but has all kinds of dirty business going on. In Bolivia, he supports a general to become president in exchange for control over the country's water supply. The same general killed the family of Camille (Olga Kurylenko) years ago, and when Bond teams up with Camille because there isn't anyone else – M and the British secret service stop their support, while the Americans even are on his enemy's side – his job becomes entwined with her personal revenge. Whether Bond is also motivated by personal motives, dating back to the predecessor 'Casino Royale', remains unclear, at least he denies it when M asks him.In my view, 'Quantum of Solace' is one of the poorest contributions to the series. The action of the movie is uninspired: a car chase, a boat chase, then a plane is shot down, and if you finally compare the boxy desert hotel to the amazing ice hotel in 'Die Another Day', you wonder where all the money went. The cast is not convincing, either: Mathieu Amalric is an easily forgettable villain, just a business guy in a white shirt, while Ukrainian Olga Kurylenko plays the Bolivian girl as if she was preparing for the role by staying a week on the sun bed and then put a silly wig on. It remains a mystery why the casting director didn't attempt to find a talented Latin American actress for the part? To add insult to injury, we get Beam, a CIA agent with a fake mustache who looks like a cartoon character (but is intended to be dead serious). Every scene he is in made me cringe in my seat. The title song is one of the rare cases that a Bond main theme is not memorable. Despite this long list of disappointments, the movie isn't entirely bad. 'Quantum of Solace' is well edited and photographed, deliberately less glossy than others of the series. The grainy look fits the desert location, for example. And Craig plays a good Bond, silent, tough and mean, with less lines than ever before which is an advantage.