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Well, an action figure, real or plastic, is just what this brisk exercise (the shortest Bond film ever) needs. Director Marc Forster--whose résumé includes a lot of gimmicky art-house fare, from Finding Neverland to The Kite Runner--does much better when he has no moral in tow; he can concentrate on shepherding the second-unit stunt work and setting a tempo of nearly nonstop suspense. What's lost in reverberations from the series' blithe old movies is gained in daredevil vigor...
...formula, and here, as in “Casino Royale,” paring away the franchise’s unnecessary affectations—cars with rocket launchers, Moneypenny, martinis done a very certain way—has paid off. Screaming through its 106-minute runtime (the shortest ever for a Bond film), “Quantum of Solace” isn’t weighed down by politics or melodrama. Director Marc Forster (“Monster’s Ball,” “Finding Neverland”) tears through a refreshingly uncomplicated plot that...
...film had the longest running time in the series: 2hr.24. This one, the first true Bond sequel, is the shortest, at 1hr.46, and it wastes no time shifting into high gear. It begins in the middle of a car chase, with Bond's Aston Martin being pursued by a convoy of nasty cars on the hairpin turns of a mountain road outside Siena, Italy. Doesn't matter if the bad guys have enough artillery to stock a Third World uprising; Bond's superior driving skills, and the series' reluctance to kill off its hero in the first reel, make...
...character the end of the series instead of forcing fans to watch the show deteriorate. Now, two of my once-favorite shows are failing to deal with the antihero concept as gracefully, prompting me to wonder if producers need to realize that the most interesting characters should have the shortest lifespans.Consider Fox’s medical drama “House,” now in its fifth season, which stars Hugh Laurie as brilliant case-cracking doctor and miserable Vicodin addict Gregory House. For the first two and a half seasons, the show had great writing that focused...
...elected to lead his party. "The biggest mission given to me is to resolve this, and I plan to do my utmost." If he succeeds, Japan has a shot at some stable leadership that could reinvigorate a tired electorate. If he fails, Aso might set a record for the shortest term in office by a postwar Japanese prime minister...