James Bond returns to saving the world in the Quantum of Solace trailer. But as Roger Ebert noted some time ago, it is rather silly that a British Secret Service Agent is still out saving the world. James Bond has been old fashioned for a long time. Many of the recent Bond films have been, well, just awful. James Bond was never real, it was always over the top, and I like the old films quite a lot. But I wouldn’t pay to see one in a theater today.
The makers of the James Bond films seem to have gotten the message with Quantum of Solace-easily the weirdest title I can recall right off hand. The Salmon of Doubt was Douglas Adams unfinished last book btw. The Quantum of Solace Trailer shows us a James Bond who has a lot in common with Jason Borne, Neo, and The Terminator-with maybe a touch of Alias tossed in for good measure. This looks like a lot more of an action film than we have seen from 007 in a while. It is also good to hear the old James Bond music.
The Quantum of Solace trailer looks pretty good, car chases, boat chases, plane chases, motorcycle chases, (there may have been a bicycle chase that I missed)- a semi-nude woman, lots of guns, lots of things blowing up, did I mention the nude woman? Well, it is James Bond, but that red wig put in mind of Alias, as did the talk of some vast secret network that is everywhere.
The most striking bit of business in the Quantum of Solace Trailer is when James Bond walks over a rocky hill and raises a machine gun in one hand. This is an iconic image, an iconic image of The Terminator and Agent Smith of The Matrix. Quantum of Solace is aiming at some big targets if they want people to think of The Terminator and The Matrix when they think of a new James Bond movie. But who knows, maybe Quantum of Solace will be the James Bond for the future.
