Movie Review - Quantum of Solace

There is always a lot of hype around Bond movies. And although I didn't like Daniel Craig playing James Bond that much, my curiosity got the better of me, and so, I decided to watch Quantum of Solace.

To be honest, I was enjoying my weekly body massage (you guys should take one too. It's so damn relaxing!!!) when I realized that I was running late for the show. So, I had to ask my masseur to cut short the massage by 30 odd mins (generally it lasts about 1 hour) and rushed to the theater to catch the show.

To cut a long story short - I am VERY disappointed!!!

This movie is the only Bond movie I've seen (I've seen em all btw. Right from the Roger Moore starers all the way to Daniel Craig) where I was constantly looking at my watch and thinking about Popcorn and Pepsi refills and wondering when this movie would end - than looking at the events on screen!

I'm going to be "in-your-face" honest here. The main things I like about bond movies are:
1. The hot girls
2. How he gets them into bed
3. The Cool Gadget
4. The "Dream" Cars
5. The Action
6. The "Save The World" plot

Well, to put it this way, this James Bond movie doesn't have any of them!


The girl in this movie - Olga Kurylenko - is a little short of disappointing. "Seriously James ... She doesn't turn me on - how the fuck did she turn you on??? But, hey, that explains why you didn't sleep with her!!!"

Generally, Bond girls are "Ultra Glamorous" personified. Sophie Marceau, Rosamund Pike, Famke Janssen, Izabella Scorupco, Serena Scott Thomas, Hally Berry, Jane Seymour, Dennis Richards, etc to name a few.

Olga Kurylenko on the other hand - she comes no where near that image. Firstly, she doesn't have a single shot in the movie where she is dressed in something "nice and sexy". Secondly, she sports this nasty little burn scar on her back that really really makes you wanna puke! Third, she doesn't have any "assets". For those of you who didn't get it - ASSETS = ASS AND TITS!
Seriously, she's got really really small tits. And her ass is pretty much non existent!


It's always a pleasure to see Bond get women into bed. To be honest - I try to watch those sequences over and over again to see if there is something I can "learn" from it. But, in QoS - there weren't any (except for one silly little excuse for it!).


Bond's watch is the most kick ass gadget he carries. From shooting laser beams to deploying a high tension wire inside of it - it does a lot of other things besides telling the time! In this movie. His watch is a dud. The only gadget he uses his Gun. And it does what every gun does - Shoot (Duh!)


There are no damn cars in this movie. The only fight sequence from inside "vehicles" was one in the air where Bond pilots a run down Cargo aircraft and picks a bone with a Fighter Aircraft (Of course - he comes out as a champion. But, yaaaaaaaaawn, wasn't that obvious!)


This is the only section where Daniel Craig stages a win over other Bond actors. This guy has a macho body and his punches does pack a walla. But, hey, James Bond is supposed to be a Super Spy, not a street boxer!
But anyways, to give QoS some credit, the fight sequences is the only thing that *might* save you from sleeping off through the movie!


The plot in this movie is complete crap. Bond wants to avenge the people who made his girlfriend kill herself, and Olga wants to kill some general who raped her sister and mother ages ago!

What I fail to understand is - How can she Vesper be HIS girlfriend - when "technically" she was already seeing someone else, and was doing all the espionage stuff to save her "other" boyfriend. And besides - who the heck kills themselves (and that too by drowning themself!) these days to save their loved ones? I bought that load of crap in the Harry Potter series (Alice sacrifices herself for Harry). But, in a James Bond movie ... I don't think so!!!


Anyways, another thing I noticed was, in QoS, they flashed a woman's pussy (This happens in the last 20 odd mins off the movie. When the General is about to rape some girl and Olga barges into the room with a gun!). I really don't know why they had to show that though. The sequence could've done well without it. None of the earlier movies even dared to show the woman's nipple. But here ...

I guess the director wanted to give the viewers some "Value For Money"!


On the whole, this is one seriously avoidable movie. And if any one of you haven't watched the movie yet - DON'T BOTHER. You won't be missing anything!!!