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		List Price: $39.99		Label: MGM (Video & DVD) Salesrank: 200 Released: March 24, 2009
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		MPAA Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested) Media: Blu-ray

Editorial Review:
Studio: Tcfhe/mgm Release Date: 03/24/2009 Run time: 107 minutes Rating: Pg13

Description of Quantum of Solace [Blu-ray]:
Daniel Craig hasn't lost a step since Casino Royale--this James Bond remains dangerous, a man who could earn that license to kill in brutal hand-to-hand combat… but still look sharp in a tailored suit. And Quantum of Solance itself carries on from the previous film like no other 007 movie, with Bond nursing his anger from the Casino Royale storyline and vowing blood revenge on those responsible. For the new plot, we have villain Mathieu Amalric (The Diving Bell and the Butterfly), intent on controlling the water rights in impoverished Third World nations and happy to overthrow a dictator or two to get his way. Olga Kurylenko is very much in the "Bond girl" tradition, but in the Ursula Andress way, not the Denise Richards way. And Judi Dench, Jeffrey Wright, and Giancarlo Giannini are welcome holdovers. If director Marc Forster and the longtime Bond production team seem a little too eager to embrace the continuity-shredding style of the Bourne pictures (especially in a nearly incomprehensible opening car chase), they nevertheless quiet down and get into a dark, concentrated groove soon enough. And the theme song, "Another Way to Die," penned by Jack White and performed by him and Alicia Keys, is actually good (at times Keys seems to be channeling Shirley Bassey--nice). Of course it all comes down to Craig. And he kills. --Robert Horton

Quantum of Solace [Blu-ray] Reviews:
Quantum of Solace - Review
2009-12-28 - The movie was at a special price and was delivered in just a few days.

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Forgettable
2009-12-28 - Bond: Quantum of Solace / B001PPLIEG

*Spoilers*

I can't help but feel that if the Bond franchise isn't soon willing to make some tough decisions, they're going to start losing audiences. I'm not the biggest Bond fan in the world, but I did enjoy all the Pierce Brosnan ones and many of the Sean Connery ones. The problem, as I see it, is that the series is verging on stagnation and repetition.

One of the things that has just simply ceased to be interesting about the Bond universe is how most of the Bond movies in recent memory feature the tired canard of Bond being 'framed' for something, or otherwise being instructed to come back to HQ and put the stops on the investigation, only for Bond to 'go rogue' on his own and solve the case all by his solo self. It's a common technique to put the hero at a disadvantage - it wouldn't be an exciting movie if Bond had all the back-up and emotional support he could ever need from HQ, now would it? After being reused so many times, though, it just seems stupid - even Dench's impeccable M cannot continue to plausibly doubt her best agent over and over again. An elegant answer to this would be to make the "James Bond" position nothing more than that - an actual position that different men fill over the years. This move would explain the differences in appearances between all the Bonds, the long years over which the character has ostensibly operated, and why M keeps not trusting him, even after all this time - but it is a decision that I suspect the franchise is not yet willing to take.

Another thing that needs updating, in my opinion, is the Bond 'effect' on women. When an attractive young woman is sent to reign Bond in and ends up immediately falling into his arms instead, we have to wonder why M is stupid enough to keep trying this trick (prequel or not). When Bond is fully rogue and asks an airline employee to lie to the British government about his whereabouts, she flirtily agrees - even though the cover story they will tell her is probably that he's a criminal, or worse. I know it's part of the Bond mythos that all women everywhere are instantly hypnotized by him, but I'd like an update for this exciting space year of 2009 - indeed, some of the Brosnan "Bond girls" seemed more self-possessed than the ones in QoS.

Ultimately, this is a forgettable Bond movie - enjoyable for an evening, but nothing more. I'd like to see the sort of updates that could make the Bond franchise less fluffy and more substantial, but who can say if they'll ever come.

~ Ana Mardoll

Good continuation
2009-12-28 - This movie is a good bond movie but not even close to as good as casino royale. This is a continuation of the syoryline from casino royale and well worth watching but I compare this movie to the empire strikes back in the star wars trillogy; a good story but still feels incomplete. Hopefully they make another bond movie that continues the story and finishes it.

really good
2009-12-28 - this movie is a great movie love it not as good as the first but still a good movie.

Something is missing
2009-12-28 - Now don't get me wrong, this was a good MOVIE, but it was not a good BOND movie. This and Casino Royale both lacked certain elements that define a Bond movie: the hilarious, witty puns at the perfect moment, the womanizing, Moneypenny, Q, the get-out-of-any-situation-without-a-scratch element, the vodka martini. The new Bond has some potential, but these movies don't give him the chance to become James Bond. He's way too emotional and is (I hate to say it) a wimp! He can barely survive the most basic fistfight or chase scene with anonymous henchmen. He's become very feminine, and because of that I believe Bond in general is losing his appeal with his male audience, who used to look up to and idolize James Bond, the ultimate Ladies-Man and Man's-Man, or in other words, THE man.

By the way, I think Pierce Brosnan is the best Bond, who agrees?