Much talked about sequel to the Casino Royale, movie 'Quantum Of Solace' starring Daniel Craig and the new bond girl Olga Kuryelenko, finally hits the screen and after having watched the same trailer hundreds of times, I rushed for the movie with my friends.
Now, if you were thrilled by the ‘on the foot chase’ from Casino Royale, you will be on the edge of your seat when Quantum kicks off with an Aston Martin snaking through the hilly roads in
Things turn out, ‘well not exactly as expected’ while interrogating Mr. White and it leads to another very well pictured chase, which leads our double O to yet another lead and to another lead and from one dead man to another.
All that agent M and we know by the time we get to the half is that there is something, someone and some organisation which is much bigger than what we’ve seen or imagined. It is out there and elite secret services don’t know anything about it.
In the course of time, Olga Kuryelenko is introduced elegantly. If you are hoping for some action from the new, bold bond girl, I’m sorry but you’ll be let down. Bond is after the bad guys and is working his way brick by brick and lead by lead. When all of a sudden MI6 decides to bring him in and restrict his movement. That is when Bond goes back to Mathis and seeks help.
This venture leads him to
James Bond claims, time and time over again that he isn’t driven by vengeance or revenge. He is only answering to the call of his duty. But Bond not being able to get sleep at nights, Mathis and Camille (Olga) reminding him about Vesper and asking him to let himself free are the clues that he isn’t over Vesper and probably, something more than duty is driving him to go after the bad guys. As an audience, one may get confused as to If bond is going to have to fight the bad guys to protect the royal grace and the crown and in the course of time a side mission would be to take out the guys who killed Vesper.
Well, as bond advances towards the bad guys the death toll increases. Things speed up and cars roll and guns fire. The regular stuff and it continues till the end.
The background score is good; action scenes and chase sequences are of supreme quality, exotic locations and face off with newer and more sophisticated villains.
However, our double O seems to be getting more of a broken hearted revengeful, confused, lover boy.
Bond was after Le Chiffre in the Royale and other than the call from M during which she tells Bond that organization behind Le Chiffre kidnapped Vesper’s boyfriend and did all that they did.
We do get glimpses of ‘that organization’ and we hope to see that organization shape up and be defined by its body and activity but I guess we are going to have to wait a little bit longer. Newly promoted 007 might need some more time and creators of the movie some more bandwidth to figure out what that organization is all about.
After having waited for two years for this movie, walking out of theatre I felt, I want to go to sleep and only wake up when the next one is out.
However, no smart and cheeky gadgets, Bond goes to bed with just one woman, not a lot of wits and charming by the Bond, relationship between M and double O becoming more of a Mother-son kind and closest Olga Kuryelenko comes to action is a peck on bond’s lips and some shouting and inane shooting and flashing ramp looks…just the facts.
However, it is a 007 movie so feel free to knock yourself off.
Neo
I was quite knocked off already. But yeah I felt kinda let down by the storyline. Hope double O grows up fast otherwise James Bond has seen his day
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