First, what it has, that someone who watches Bond would expect.

Insane chases, improbable, and exciting
Beautiful women
Villans just unrealistic enough to feel no empathy for
Improbable plots to hold it all together

Things that are missing:
Cheesy double entendres
Crazy gadgets
Q
Cheesy henchmen

So, now that you have a cheat sheet, and can probably make up your mind yourself, here’s what I thought.

I enjoyed it. It could have been called Casino Royale II, and if you haven’t seen that, don’t see Quantum until you’ve seen Casino. Like it’s predecessor, this movie throws out all of the previous incarnations of Bond. It’s gritty, it’s ugly at times. Daniel Craig does cold pretty well. To me, this incarnation is closest to the original Fleming, where Roger Moore is a parody of 007. While Bond in this film leaves a trail of dead bodies, living up to the ‘License to Kill’ MI-6 is certainly uncomfortable with Bond’s use of said license, which is a nice touch, and makes the series more believable.

In all, this isn’t the greatest movie ever, and isn’t as strong as Casino Royale. In short, if you loved Casino, you’ll enjoy this. If you didn’t like the direction that Casino took, yoi’l get more of the same. It’d be best as a double feature in my opinion. This concludes Dan’s movie review.

That is all.

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