Solace Goes Sour

Daniel Craig is a younger, hipper Bond.

Like most film franchise reboots, 2006’s “Casino Royale” took James Bond down a darker path and started at the beginning of the character’s history, a tactic very similar to “Batman Begins.” Royale was met with great success, as was “Batman Begins.” Each respective film provided new actors for the Starbucks generation.

Previous Bond films were plagued with a tongue-in-cheek cheesiness, rendering viewers like myself to take it seriously. They seemed to be a serious of ridiculous action sequences that contributed nothing to the hazy idea producers called a plot.

Royale used action only when it was necessary, following true to the original Bond novel penned by Ian Flemming. Character development was beautiful, and James became a living and breathing person, not a superhero.

Quantum of Solace takes strides backwards for the series. The producer, Michael G. Wilson, arbitrarily decided to go with a plot he came up with by himself during the filming of Royale. The title of the movie also seemed to be an incredibly stupid decision. It was the title of a short story created by Flemming, but the plot of this excuse for a movie had nothing to do with it.