WARNING: THIS POST CONTAINS SPOILERS OF QUANTUM OF SOLACE
Last Friday I saw Quantum of Solace, the 22nd movie in the James Bond franchise and the second with Daniel Craig playing the MI6 spy. I am a huge James Bond fan and have looked forward to seeing this movie for almost an entire year.
The good news is that the first weekend’s $70 million box office opening means that James Bond will remain as the most profitable franchise in the history of the movie industry. The bad news is that for diehard fans like myself, Quantum of Solace continued the (in my opinion) downward trend started by Casino Royale with the movie becoming less like a James Bond movie and more like any of the other spy action movies you see in theaters today.
Having seen all the James Bond movies (with the exception of the recent ones staring Daniel Craig) multiple times, I consider myself qualified to comment on the evolution of this franchise. There are certain trends and themes that are consistent in many Bond movies yet absent from Quantum of Solace. Not once did I hear a sexual innuendo uttered against an unsuspecting woman and with the exception of a cell phone used to track a suspect, there was no display of the type of high tech gadgets you expect to see in a regular Bond movie. Gone are the Bond movies where the main character works in conjunction with the American Central Intelligence Agency. In this movie, the CIA is portrayed as an organization ripe with internal conflict that at some point works with the villains against Bond. This movie, taken at its entirety, resembles more Bourne Identity than James Bond.
Hopefully I will feel better tomorrow when Jack Bauer returns tomorrow in 24 Redemption.
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