Boy do I wish that I liked this movie more.
It starts out with a bang and the movie flows quite well all the way through. The problem is, the movie just has too many defects.
The first problem that I had was with the editing (I’m referring to the vehicle scenes for the most part):
Is it really necessary to shoot all of the action sequences with vomit-inducing close shots? Seriously, I had to look away in the beginning as cool as the scene was or risk getting a headache. The editing for ALL of the action sequences sucked so bad it was laughable at times. It was frenetic…..too frenetic. You couldn’t make since of what was happening half of the time.
Then there was the story.
OK, what the heck happened? We go from “Casino Royale”, where Bond infiltrates a card game to uncover a money-laundering scheme to….some jackass who wants to own a patch of desert to monopolize utilities?
The villain was very vanilla as well. I kept thinking that any minute somebody would take him out and the REAL villain would step in. Nope, you’re stuck with this dingleberry throughout the movie.
I get that this movie is just a small piece of the whole “Shadow” organization storyline that started in “Casino”. I also get that there will eventually be another Bond film to continue that story. I just wish that QoS wasn’t so damn boring!
Final score: 3 out of 5 (and that’s being very generous!)
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