Quantum of Solace to me was a confused film, at the start the car chase as Andy had said was film geography gone wrong, I was lost in who was chasing who, where each person was or where they were heading to.
The first large part of the film was, fight scene shot from about every possible angle which again confused me on where each person was, or who was chasing who, then followed by a random scene with M with some random MI6 people talking about something random then back to another fight/chase scene.
The characters through out the film, were dare I say it again ... 'Random' was random scene after random character after random fight/chase scene. I was confused on what the hell was going on until the last leg of the film. Even then it was a stretch, I really had to think about it.
It wasn't a bad film by any means, it just wasn't good either. A agent hopelessly lost after his only love having died, sure gets over it fast.
The film was playing the fact that he was after revenge and would kill any one to get to those responsible, but he went from this to casually getting with another woman, yeah its bond he's supposed to be like this. But that just ruined any credibility on the plot of him being motivated by revenge and he was some sort of 'dark knight' then it went from that back to him being revenge driven again, was just all a tad unbelievable.
And for anyone who knows me, my memory isn't my best feature, and for a large chunk of the viewing audience they don't want to have to think about what their watching, and in this bond it was playing on alot of things that happened in Casino Royale. The whole way through I was like, I kinda recognize that guy from the first one but who is he again? ... It didnt go to any length to remind the viewer of who these people were, or what they had done. The end scene I was just plain confused. It didn't make any sense to me, which ruined a film that had regained some momentum in its closing acts.
Over all, the word of the day is 'Random' its a randomly put together film and doesnt go to any length to properly resolve anything in fact. Having just watched it, im struggling to remember what happened in it. Probably due to the fact it was all glued together by fight scene after fight scene after chase. I felt I was watching a marshals arts movie, the narative surely took a back seat in this movie.
Tuesday, 16 December 2008
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