i went to see this show last night.

it's pretty hard to catch up what's going on. this show starts off straight from the last film. heck, u can just watch it back to back and u'll hardly notice that it is two separate movie . bond is straight away scouring over the people whom vesper worked for, and those responsible leading to her death.

he's not holding back. this is the darkest, coldest bond ever. he has little or no remorse over killing people, especially those who he deemed as the bad guy. ofcourse, he is driven by blind hatred and vengeance, and he is not afraid of letting his dark side loose.

however, this sort of blinds us from seeing what the story is all about. bond was shown too focused on vengeance that the audience were left in the dark about how the villain, dominic greene, has to do with anything.

this film is action packed. not much romance or charm like the usual bond. actually, it feels more like jason bourne than james bond. chase scenes, fight scenes, explosions, firefights are all awesome. probably the part i like the most is that bond didnt use any gadgets other than a digital camera/phone. everything else is reused or commandeered from whatever that's around him. that's how resourceful he is.

so yes, this is a hard core spy film. however, it does establish how bond later turns from the vengeance seeking psychopath after the death of vesper into the more charming, objective oriented bond we previously know.

3/5.

one way to look at the last 2 james bond movie is to understand why it is different from the rest of the james bond series:

i. it is a reboot. a reinvention and revitalization of the james bond character and its universe.

ii. QoS is the first ever sequel to another james bond movie (CR). i think i read somewhere it's supposed to be a trilogy or something (unconfirmed), but what i do know is that, QoS have already started preproduction even before CR finished filming. so it was supposed to be a tie-in.