On one of our last nights off before we get really knee deep in A Christmas Carol rehearsals a gang of us lost our minds and decided to go see the new Bond Flick, Quantum of Solace. It doesn’t even work as a thrill ride. The stunts, chases, and constant head banging into walls after inhuman leaps rival anything that happens in a Road Runner cartoon. Only problem is the coyote wouldn’t have survived half this stuff.
Even the gadgets are lackluster. We’ve already seen phones that can do what the ones in this movie do, and the touch table magic is already a bit ho hum.
Too bad. Daniel Craig is a good Bond, but he’s not really playing James Bond. Instead he’s playing one of those punching dummies that just keeps bouncing back with strangely disappearing lacerations from each instance where his face or head meets a wall or some other object.
I’m not trying to get literal here, or expect too much of the genre, but give me a break. Just because you can do some of this stuff, doesn’t mean we’re going to buy it. After awhile the stunts become tiresome and border on the ridiculous.
Like I said, we lost our minds a bit.
