The point is, wherever he is, this James Bond is pissed. And that ceaseless anger begins to curdle every sequence that might otherwise bring a little happiness. I mean happiness for us, the viewers.Read Full Review »
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Salon.com: Stephanie Zacharek
Craig never overreaches, and yet he accomplishes the unthinkable. He's not the Bond we ever asked for or hoped for, yet he's reimagined the character in ways we never could have foreseen. He's Bond with soul.Read Full Review »
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Time: Richard Corliss
Kurylenko, a lovely Russian-Ukrainian hybrid who is oddly duskied up to look vaguely Latina, is a whiz at raising Quantum's temperature and gradually luring Bond out of his stolid shell.Read Full Review »
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ROLLING STONE: Peter Travers
It delivers the popcorn goods, but it ignores the poison eating at Bond's insides. Killer mistake.Read Full Review »
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USA Today: Claudia Puig
The stunts are as muscular and the film as handsome to look at as the hero who so ably pulls them off. But the story linking it all together is thin and weak.Read Full Review »
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ReelViews: James Berardinelli
The film's biggest problem is its director. Marc Forster is an experienced art house filmmaker with impressive credits (most recently, "The Kite Runner)", but he is clueless when it comes to action sequences.Read Full Review »
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LOS ANGELES TIMES: Kenneth Turan
All dressed up with no particular place to go, this 22nd Bond film tries hard but ends up an underachiever.Read Full Review »
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The New York Times: A.O. Scott
The violence in his (Craig's) first outing, "Casino Royale," was notably intense, and while Quantum of Solace is not quite as brutal, the mood is if anything even more grim and downcast.Read Full Review »
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Washington Post: Ann Hornaday
Thank heaven for Judi Dench, whose M provides Quantum of Solace its sole quantum of peppery brio.Read Full Review »
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