Quantum of Solace (2008)
Directed by Marc Forster
Betrayed by Vesper, the woman he loved, 007 fights the urge to make his latest mission personal. Pursuing his determination to uncover the truth, Bond and M interrogate Mr. White, who reveals that the organization that blackmailed Vesper is far more complex and dangerous than anyone had imagined.
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The Bourne series (The Bourne Identity, 2002, and The Bourne Supremacy, 2004, were released prior to Casino Royale) redefined the spy genre with a grittiness, intensity and relevance the Bond movies could not hope to match with their established milieu.
Forster’s cutting is fast and furious, in the style of The Bourne Identity franchise, as if the editing is designed to match the brusque, ruthless style of Craig’s Bond.
If Casino Royale is The Bourne Identity , Quantum of Solace is certainly The Bourne Supremacy.
This is the contrarian's 007, the Bond for people who would rather watch The Bourne Identity .
Trying desperately to appropriate the edge and urgency of "The Bourne Identity" and its successors, "Quantum of Solace" winds up looking merely like just another action thriller, filmed on the fly and whip-edited into a mash of spite and mayhem.
Nor is it the only attempt to distil the Troubles down to decontextualised snatches of brutality, as Alan Clarke did with his 1988 Elephant.
Matt Damon's Jason Bourne flicks always struck me as James Bond Lite, but most modern moviegoers obviously disagree, since the trilogy ended up scoring as a box office bonanza (it connected with viewers even more than Vin Diesel's anti-Bond flick XXX ).
His "Finding Neverland" (2004) got an Oscar nomination for Johnny Depp as the author of "Peter Pan."
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Which is to say nothing of the klutzy opera-house shoot-out stolen from The Godfather: Part III only moments later.