Bond, Jason Bond

Yes, QoS was much like Bourne in terms of action and cinematography, but that is not necessarily a bad thing. Bond is still Bond, and more now than ever before. The Bond of today is nothing as the Bond was ten years ago when we saw him blowing himself out of a submarine and then hooking up with a chick named Christmas. The Bourne trilogy is definitely in my top five, with Ultimatum being nearly just as good as Identity, for what I thought of as awesome camera direction. That said, I personally thought the action sequences of Quantum were much better than those in Royale, but to each his own.

I think the main issue here is that Quantum of Solace would be nothing without Casino Royale. In retrospect, they should have called it CR.5. It is very confusing in certain areas as to what exactly is happening and why in that exact moment, but the overall plot of QoS is Bond wrestling with the demons of his former love, Vesper (Yes, my bad, I messed up a character's name, I'm a terrible person). Throughout the whole movie, the topic of Bond not being able to sleep, constantly seeking out revenge and killing everyone that may have been involved in the Q organization is touched upon. He's an emotional guy. So emotional in fact, he drinks a gin martini and doesn't once introduce himself as "Bond, James Bond."

Again, being that this was basically Casino Royale and a half and it picks up right where it left off, I don't see how the opening car chase was unnecessary. Sure, I guess Bond, M, and everyone else could have interrogated Mr. White at his house, but that just wouldn't make for good cinema. As for Gemma Arterton, her character was completely pointless, but Bond uses her as an object and this is really the only proof that the Bond in this film is the same Bond from others (see the last sentence in previous paragraph). Beyond that, she's super hot. Also, her character paves the way for Bond to go against authority and do what's right.

This was not an OK Bond film, this was an amazing Bond film. An OK Bond film would be any Brosnan film other than Goldeneye, about 75% of the Moore films and I won't even go into how low that goofy fuck Lazenby took the franchise. QoS doesn't have the originality that Casino had, but it certainly won't be labeled as just another 007 film either.