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List Price: $29.99 | | Label: MGM (Video & DVD)
Salesrank: 396
Released: March 24, 2009 |
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MPAA Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Media: DVD |
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Editorial Review:
Daniel Craig returns as James Bond in this thrilling, action-packed adventure that picks up where Casino Royale left off. Betrayed by the woman he loved, 007 fights the urge to make his latest mission personal. On a nonstop quest for justice that crisscrosses the globe, Bond meets the beautiful but feisty Camille (Olga Kurylenko), who leads him to Dominic Greene (Mathieu Amalric), a ruthless businessman and major force within the mysterious Quantum organization. When Bond uncovers a conspiracy to take control of one of the world’s most important natural resources, he must navigate a minefield of treachery, deception and murder to neutralize Greene before it’s too late!
- Audio: English: 5.1 DTS, 5.1 Dolby Digital, SDH / Spanish & French: 5.1 Dolby Digital
- Language: Dubbed: English, French & Spanish / Subtitled: English & Spanish
- Aspect Ratio: Widescreen 2.40:1
Description of Quantum of Solace:
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 Reviews:
Quantum of Solace - Review 
2009-12-28 - The movie was at a special price and was delivered in just a few days.
I am very happy with the purchase.
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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.
Total Rubbish 
2009-12-28 - This is total rubbish. It doesn't even feel like a James Bond Film. Craig, IMO, doesn't fit the bill. This film is so overburdened with Political Correctness, it's intolerable. This film would have been a total bomb if it had to stand alone (without the JB genre to back it up); which is the only thing that kept it afloat, at the box-office, IMO. Christ, I watched Octopussy after watching this atrocity and was so glad to see such wondrous things as Maurice Binder's Title Sequences, Pre-Title Sequences that were actually believable and had actual stunt work, and the beautiful and dynamic music of John Barry (which in this sad excuse for a JB film, only arrived at the end credits - yes, I know, attributed to Monty Norman, but everyone knows Barry actually wrote the James Bond Theme). Anyway, this movie reflects the current state of the world - which is crap. "Cubby" must be rolling over in his grave; after all, he told Barbara and Michael not to screw it up - that is, the recipe for JB. Apparently and most ostensibly they did. R.I.P. James Bond. You're dead if the rest of your movies continue in this vein.
really good
2009-12-28 - this movie is a great movie love it not as good as the first but still a good movie.
