Quantum of Solace
Another James Bond's series.
The Plot (warning SPOILER)
The film continues only one hour after the events of Casino Royale with Bond driving from Lake Garda to Siena, Italy – with the captured Mr. White in the boot of his car – when he is attacked by chasing henchmen. After evading his pursuers, Bond and M interrogate White regarding his organisation, Quantum. M's trusted bodyguard Craig Mitchell turns traitor – allowing White to escape – so Bond chases Mitchell across Siena and kills him. Through forensic investigations involving tracked banknotes, Bond heads to Haiti to find Mitchell's contact, Edmund Slate and kills him. He then poses as him, learning Slate was sent to kill Camille at the behest of her partner, Dominic Greene, the ruthless chairman of Greene Planet and a member of Quantum. Bond pursues her by motorbike and watches her meet with Greene, learning the businessman is helping General Medrano – who murdered Camille's family – to stage a coup d'état in Bolivia in exchange for a seemingly barren piece of desert land.
Greene has Camille escorted away on Medrano's boat as a "sweetener" for their deal. Bond commandeers his own boat to rescue her (though she is unwilling) and leaves her in local care. Bond follows Greene, through the cellphone of Greene's henchman Elvis, to his private jet, which flies him to a performance of Tosca at Lake Constance, Austria. This is a clandestine way for members of Quantum to plan the coup, with each member communicating through special earpieces concealed in gift bags. Bond obtains an earpiece and disrupts the meeting. He then sends MI6 cellphone photos of various Quantum members as they flee the arena. As Greene abruptly departs from the opera, he is intercepted by Bond and a gun fight ensues in a restaurant. Bond confronts a bodyguard of Guy Haines, (who is an advisor of the British Prime Minister) on a rooftop, but the ensuing struggle causes him to fall on the hood of Greene's vehicle. Greene apparently does not recognize him and has him killed.
Believing Bond killed yet another potentially vital source of information, M has 007's passports and credit cards revoked. Bond is still able to travel to Italy by boat, where he reunites with his old ally René Mathis, who now lives in a hilltop villa awarded to him by MI6 as compensation. Both immediately relocate their efforts to La Paz, Bolivia. They are greeted by Strawberry Fields, an MI6 field operative from the local British Consulate. Although she explains Bond must return to the UK on the next available flight, he disobeys and seduces her in their hotel suite. That night, they attend a fund raiser being held by Greene, where Camille reappears. The Bolivian police attempt to set up Bond by putting a beaten Mathis in his car boot. As Bond picks Mathis up from the boot, the policemen open fire and fatally injure Mathis. Bond disarms and kills the policemen and comforts the dying Mathis, who asks Bond to forgive Vesper Lynd, and forgive himself for what happened to her.
Bond and Camille drive to the location of Greene's intended land acquisition, surveying the area in a Douglas DC-3 propeller plane. They are intercepted by a chopper and a fighter plane sent by Medrano and subsequently shot down. Before crashing, both Bond and Camille jump from the crippled plane and then freefall/parachute into a sink hole. There, the duo discover Greene is not interested in oil, but has been blockading supplies of fresh water, hidden in underground rivers. After this revelation, they return to La Paz, where Bond meets M and discovers Quantum murdered Fields by symbolically drowning her in oil. M orders Bond to disarm and end his activities in Bolivia, but he escapes by overpowering four MI6 operatives accompanying him in a lift. After this escape Bond encounters and speaks to M, stating he is not finished with his operation.
Bond meets his CIA ally Felix Leiter at a local bar, who informs Bond of where Greene is set to complete his deal with Medrano. Bond flees when other CIA agents arrive to kill him because of their deal with Greene for a share of alleged oil supplies in Bolivia. Bond and Camille go to an eco-hotel powered by hydrogen fuel cells, located in the Bolivian desert, where Greene is finalising the coup. As the various parties depart, Bond attacks and kills the departing Colonel of Police for betraying Mathis and sets off a chain of explosions when a hydrogen fuel tank is destroyed. Camille kills Medrano and Bond captures Greene. After interrogating him, he leaves Greene stranded in the middle of the desert with only a can of oil. Bond and Camille drive to a train station, where they finally kiss before she departs.
Bond goes to Kazan, Russia, where he confronts Vesper Lynd's former lover, Yusef. Yusef is a Quantum henchman who specialises in seducing high-ranking women to get them to give up government assets as he stages his kidnappings, and is doing the same with Canadian agent Corinne Veneau. Bond has Corinne alert the Canadian Security Intelligence Service as he confronts Yusef. Later, Bond leaves Yusef's apartment and is confronted by M who is surprised that Bond did not kill Yusef. M reveals that Leiter has been promoted at the CIA, and Greene was found in the desert shot dead with motor oil in his stomach. Bond sets out into the cold night, aware that Mr. White and Quantum are still on the loose, and throws Vesper's necklace in the snow.
My opinion about the movie:
I'm not a good movie commentator or even a reviewer... so this is really my own opinion about the movie.
To be honest, this is not a James Bond movie for me.
I mean, I usually saw James Bond as one cool, elegant, calm person. And usually in all James Bond movies we could see all high technologies that he used to finished out his works.
Mostly he also never kill if it's not need.
This one is really .... brutal.
I admit, for this 2nd movie of David Craig James Bond movie, this is the best than the previous one.
Not just because it has a lot of actions.
But also this was a really different James Bond, also in my own opinion it's more humane. You can see, he is angry, but he suppressed his anger, but also tried to find the killer. He is very stubborn (killed most of the people he was supposed to capture not killed), but he is nice (tried to help Camille, but end up making some trouble to her, feeling sad for what he had done to Fields).
But again, the action is really cool. ^_^
The choreographer for the action was very nice, much better than "Casino Royale". This is one of the good point that makes you to hold your breath and wonder what will happen next.
Don't expect High-tech gadgets in this movie. You'll just see those gadgets in the HQ of M. Not in James Bond's hand (like cars, weapons, accesories). So better watch this without thinking about the high-tech gadgets
This movie is also has very less sex scene. I just found one, but it was also already 'finish'. Nothing more.
But the action, fighting, shooting, was enough not to let your kids to go with you to watch this movie (I still found some parents who bring their 12 year old kid to the movie to watch this, even it's already labelled 'ADULT').
In this movie, I admit, I love to see Olga Kurylenko as Camille. She is very cool, even she had a dark skin. She is also very beautiful. I don't know why, I do love to see her from the first time I saw her in Max Payne. Even she just showed up just to be killed =_=
Well that's all...
At least, hope we got to see some high tech gadgets again for the next James Bond movie. But I do prefer another nice choreography of the actions again :D
The players:
James Bond as Daniel Craig
Mathieu Amalric
Olga Kurylenko
Gemma Arterton
Judi Dench
Jeffrey Wright
Giancarlo Giannini
Directed by Marc Forster
Source :
Wikipedia : Quantum of Solace
Official web: Quantum of Solace
Trailer : Youtube - Quantum of Solace
