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...Jack White and Alicia Keys One problem is that White and Keys have no audible chemistry. Another is that their song has no chorus. But mostly it's that lo-fi guitar fuzz suits Bond about as well as a rented tux. (Read Richard Corliss's Quantum of Solace review...
...hero of Quantum of Solace is James Bond, headlining the 22nd "official" film in the series, stretching back to Dr. No in 1962, based on the character created by Ian Fleming and overseen by the Broccoli family. But in movie history, 46 years is a long time--nearly half the life span of feature-length movies themselves--and a film franchise, like any organism, must adapt to survive. The 007 of Quantum of Solace is not your grandfather's Bond, the suave, larkish Etonian whose success as the movies' alpha male sparked dozens, possibly hundreds of imitators in the 1960s...
Craig's Bond, already a noble thug in Casino, has a deeper reason for moodiness here: the love of his life has just died. Vesper Lynd (Eva Green) was a British Treasury agent whose motives Bond misinterpreted, leading to her selfless suicide. Quantum, the first true sequel in the series, begins an hour after Casino ended. Bond wins a frantic car chase, and in his trunk is a prize for his MI6 boss, M (Judi Dench): a board member of the outlaw cartel once known as SPECTRE, now called Quantum. Instantly, Bond is running in all directions: pursuing and eluding...
That kind of bad guy is no joke these days, so screenwriters Paul Haggis, Neal Purvis and Robert Wade pick their Quantum villain from Column A. Greene is a zillionaire tycoon who uses environmental philanthropy to mask his plan to divert water from the peasants of South America. (Bolivia is the new Chinatown.) Amalric, the French actor often seen in harried, sympathetic roles like the paralyzed writer in The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, is effectively reptilian here, his whispers tinged with menace, his smile hinting at sadism...
...There is something horribly efficient about you,” Camille (Olga Kurylenko) says to a certain British spy halfway through “Quantum of Solace,” the lean new action flick masquerading as a James Bond movie. Lead writer Paul Haggis has continued to take a chainsaw to the 007 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...