2008
Starring: Daniel Craig, Olga Kurylenko, Mathieu Amalric, Judi Dench, Gemma Arterton, Jeffery Wright, Giancarlo Giannini
Director: Marc Forster
Runtime: 106 Minutes
Distributor: MGM
Rating: PG-13

After the meaty origin story that was Casino Royale, greeted with almost universal acclaim for its back to basics bravado, it would seem the honeymoon really is over for this latest incarnation of cinema’s longest running franchise. Looking to build on the goodwill accrued refining the bloated Bond into something efficient enough to shed the anachronistic shackles, first time Bond director Marc Foster and scripter Paul Haggis have trimmed so much off the top as to render the series virtually emaciated and delivered a film as confounding as its nonsensical title.

Picking up right where Royale left off, Quantum opens hard and fast with Daniel Craig as Bond weaving his bullet riddled Aston Martin in an out of traffic on a winding Sienna cliff road duly dispatching the customary bad guys in hot pursuit to deliver Mr. White for interrogation. It’s an interrogation that’s short-lived as an assassin is only to happy to illustrate just what White means when he says “we have people everywhere.”

Bond sets off in hot pursuit and a frantic chase through the sewers and onto the rooftops promptly ensues. It’s a chase that essentially runs the entire length of the film as Bond delves deeper into this mysterious global shadow group, moving from Sienna to Haiti, to Austria, to Bolivia, to the tune of chase-catch-kill one flunky at a time, as M (Dench) despairs: “if you could avoid killing every possible lead it would be greatly appreciated.”

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