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06/11/2008Cinema: Quantum of Solace - Carry on, 007…

The name's Drew. James Drew. Picturenose's 007phile raves over the return of everyone's favourite secret agent.

So, that’s it then. Daniel Craig, in just two portrayals, has wrested the ‘Best James Bond Ever’ title from one Sean Connery (remember him?) and, in Quantum of Solace (2008), director Marc Forster and writers Paul Haggis, Neal Purvis and Robert Wade have delivered the first direct Bond sequel. Boy, have they delivered… 
 
We’ll touch on the film’s prowess relative to its predecessor Casino Royale (2006) presently, but first some personal insights into your reviewer’s mindset, prior to sitting down with his Dad and sister, pulse rate suitably heightened, as it always is as the latest 007 adventure starts flickering on the wall. I was concerned - I had not read any reviews, but had heard word that the first critical analyses had been ‘lukewarm’. Plus, I had noted that, for the first time in the history of the films about Ian Fleming’s über spy, the running time was less than two hours. Finally, I had already heard the Jack White-Alicia Keys theme tune, Another Way To Die and, while not appalled, had as yet failed to be energized by it as I 
was with Chris Cornell’s previous theme, You Know My Name.

So, omens of doom, then? Really, I needn’t have worried. I mean to say, how likely was it, really, that by-and-large the same team (only the director’s changed) that gave the world the marvellous first Daniel Craig turn as Bond (and the most successful film in the series) were going to let us down? They weren’t. They haven’t.
 

James Bond, as far as M (Judi Dench) is concerned, has become a very loose cannon since the death of his love, Vesper Lynd, in Casino Royale.
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