Quantum of Solace is one of the most listless Bond films I have seen.

| Original Score: C- | Apr 6, 2020

The angsty, truant Bond and his sulky ways get too irritating, the pout notwithstanding.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Jan 31, 2019

Go see Quantum of Solace. Not that you weren't going to anyway.

| Original Score: B+ | Nov 2, 2015

Shouldn't a Bond film worth the name be simply enjoyable? Even a chase that ends with Bond and his quarry crashing through a glass dome onto a pair of scaffolding towers... induces exhaustion rather than excitement.

Full Review | Nov 2, 2015

Although it's not the most crushing disappointment of all time -- finding you have won the lottery but lost the ticket is probably more crushing, I imagine -- it is still a crushing disappointment.

| Nov 2, 2015

Much has been made of the absence of Bond's signature quips, but there's something else that's absent: interest.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 17, 2011

I'm so turned off by this, I don't even have the energy to trash it. Why should I think of something clever to write? The authors clearly didn't see that as a mandate.

Full Review | Original Score: C | Aug 13, 2009

Meaner, leaner and faster than ever, the new-fashioned, down-to-earth Bond movie might have a typically tangled plot and Daniel Craig scowling a tad too much, but the Bourne-inspired action is sensational.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Nov 20, 2008

This Bond is also a bit of a jerk, taking what he wants when he wants it and acting on an instinct that leaves little room for moral debate. Seen in this light, Craig is the perfect storm of Bondian class and mayhem.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Nov 20, 2008

Let's hope this is a one-off aberration, because though it's all very efficient it lacks heart and soul and substance.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 19, 2008

A brisk, grim story that might as well have been called Monotony of Tone.

| Original Score: C | Nov 18, 2008

It's ironic: After all these years of surviving everything that has been thrown at him, James Bond is finally being undone by his own team.

| Original Score: C | Nov 17, 2008

Quantum of Solace prompts the question: Is revenge the only possible motive for large-scale movie heroism these days?

Full Review | Nov 14, 2008

Quantum of Solace is a model of mediocrity, even though Daniel Craig gives his all to a production that doesn't deserve him.

Full Review | Nov 14, 2008

The Quantum of Solace filmmakers have produced a super-serious, often visually incoherent travelogue of revenge and trumped-up angst.

| Nov 14, 2008

Forster, a director of upscale tearjerkers, has no feel for action sequences. The big chases, of which there are several, could all be replaced with a title card reading, 'Insert action here'.

| Nov 14, 2008

Quantum of Solace is best when director Marc Forster allows his star the latitude to explore emotions that, until Craig stepped into the shoes of the character, we didn't know Bond had.

| Nov 14, 2008

Quantum -- the 22d 'official' Bond picture, 24th including the rogue Bonds -- is never less than engaging.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Nov 14, 2008

Revenge is a dish best served with bullets, high explosives and giant rolling flameballs. In Quantum of Solace, James Bond orders the revenge buffet, deluxe.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Nov 14, 2008

If you held up your thumb over Daniel Craig's face and took in the mayhem around him, you'd think you were watching The Bourne Simulation rather than the 22nd (and shortest-ever) ode to Ian Fleming's suave government killer.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Nov 14, 2008