It's like the director and editor have a new toy to play with. Frustrating to watch due to all the camera shake and 10 edit chops per second. I can't stand it when films are ruined by this sort of filming, it adds nothing and removes so much enjoyment.....

Movie Review: "007: Quantum Of Solace"Since Columbia Pictures supported Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer in distributing "Casino Royale" from November 2006, here comes the first back-to-back sequel in James Bond history in which actor Daniel Craig gives his second performance as 007 by bringing the world-famous character in another state of hard-boiled female-drop-off manners after Sean Connery in "Diamonds Are Forever" (1971) and Timothy Dalton in "Licence To Kill" (1989).Producers Barbara Broccoli and Michael G. Wilson land major deals with product placement companies from car manufacturer Aston Martin to Omega Swiss watches in order to raise an over-paid 200 Million Dollar budget for director Marc Forster, at age 37, who together with long-term collaborators Roberto Schaefer for cinematography and Matt Chesse in the editorial department are unable to deliver an exceeding successor for a calmly-received over intensely thrilling to throughout suspenseful "Casino Royale" directed by Martin Campbell. The first-look editorial of "Quantum of Solace" became a vast machine of high-class action coverage with the most innovative camera movements and shot angles, which even in this suspenseless high-speed, less then 1.5 second shot-paced editorial of a minot hundred minutes, polished by second-hand editor Richard Pearson leaving the audience in a fair state of action-movie splendor, which could have been a Bond movie for the ages under stricter direction.The original screenplay by Eon Productions staff-writers Robert Wade & Neal Purvis, which needed the support of superior-screenwriter Paul Haggis in order to come to terms concerning the producers approval. Director Marc Forster shows his strong suit in some single scenes of directing a fine supporting cast featuring 22-year-old newcomer Gemma Aterton as uplifting character Strawberry Fields, Jeffrey Wright as reprising character Felix Leiter, sitting with 007 at a bar counter with just 30 seconds left to make a major decision and always-professional actress Dame Judi Dench as "M", who cannot convince James Bond to leave the past behind after Vesper Lynd's death in Venice before a pale-appearing character close-to-be a larger organizations' henchman character of Dominic Greene, portrayed with nevertheless French-charms and some sophistations by actor Mathieu Almaric, who has the looks, but does hardly put 007 into any life-threatening danger, when Bond meets the character of villain-deserting Camille, given face by actress Olga Kurylenko, who again is no match for the car over to foot-chasing and then getting-chased into plane crashing constant-striving Bond portrayal ingnited by relentless Daniel Craig.Why "Quantum of Solace" stays watchable after 10 years on the market lies with the beyond-belief job executions in the 2nd unit department directed by Dan Bradley and torch-receiving production designer Dennis Gassner, who continues in best tradition the work of nine times collaborating production designer Peter Lamont, when the music composed by David Arnold elivates the overly-done soundscape of Bond 22 with another classic-enough main theme sung by Alicia Keys and Jack White.© 2017 Felix Alexander Dausend (Cinemajesty Entertainments LLC)

Seen this movie (4) times, still dont know what its about. Casino royale was better.

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.