I watched Quantum of Solace last night. As much as I like Daniel Craig, this may be the worst Bond film ever. First of all the plot is almost indecipherable...very much dependent on knowing too many details from the last one.
If you are going to be a sequel and can't succinctly recap the info a viewer needs to know from the previous film in less than five or ten minutes to be able to enjoy the film, then don't do a sequel, do a film that is complete in itself and don't carry over crap from the last one that has no dramatic impact.
Characters appear and disappear so fast without much development or establishment, we don't really know who they are or why we should have any feeling about them at all.
But worst of all the action, scenes are so choppy and kinetic that you cannot get any sense of perspective or know where you are or who just shot at who or who threw what punched or who jumped down from where. An example: the film opens with Bond in a black car being chased by villains in a black car. The cutting is so quick, the cars have not been established, I couldn't tell who was who half the time. So much of action throughout the film is in quick cuts and close-ups or such obivous CGI that you get no sense of spectacle at all anymore.
And that was what was so great about the fights and chases and stunts in a Bond movie, there was a sense of spectacle and amazement and, it didn't happen at such a frenetic pace, that you could absorb it, take it all in, and enjoy. You could revel in the details. Not anymore. It's assaultive and just wears me out.
