One Paragraph Review: Quantum of Solace

It might be tough for me to put into words how colossally disappointed I was with this movie. But here's an attempt. By itself, the movie was a barely coherent clump of action scenes, uneven dialogue, less-than-zero character development, all packaged with an eye-rollingly bad plot. Buy my real disappointment stems from the dive the franchise has taken after the blissful and fulfilling Casino Royale. We were presented with a franchise reboot that was smart, grounded and (for the most part) realistic. Bond is at his worst when he's Superman: when he can drive all manner of cars, boats and airplanes; when he can woo women and treat people as if they have nothing to do with anything; when baddies can fire semi-automatic rifles from feet away and the bullets disappear into thin air. Basically, Quantum of Solace was a return to everything I hated about the late Pierce Brosnan Bond movies. Let us pray that Quantum was an unfortunate blip in the franchise reboot, and it wasn't Casino Royale that was the blip.