I agree that I am sometimes a little slow on the uptake. There are times when I should be at the movies earlier and aware of things that I am still catching up on. As a youth pastor, some would think it's part of my moral DNA. I'm not that guy. For some reason, I just have gotten around to seeing the new 007. It just hasn't been that high up there. I hadn't heard much good news from people who had gone, so I was avoiding it. However, my friend Evan Williams was back home from basic so I figured it a viable effort. Upon arriving, the trailer summarizes a lot of what you get. Check it out :



For me to say that a movie gives you what a trailer suggests is often not a good thing. In this case, you didn't get much more. I think the Bond movies are awesome for providing action at a nail biting pace as well as a villain you can believe in. In this case, I didn't get that vibe. There wasn't much to intrigue me. Not a laser that destroys the world, not a guy with a shark tank at his house, nor a villain asking for $1 billion dollars. You just don't get any think to really make a plot and villain that you want to see busted. Instead you get what feels like meaningless action of which people die and that is that. [NOTE : This isn't a plea for morality. It's an evidence of a weak plot that has to substitute more fight scenes in order to fill time] I wonder where the Bonds of old have gone. Maybe it's the Bourne franchise that has stolen the madness away. Or maybe it's that they missed it on this one. Earl Creps put it best when he said this :

"contemplating how the trajectory of the Bond film franchise has been changed by the new standard set by Bourne."

Maybe the tide is turning. Or maybe Jason Bourne will cause James Bond to step his game up.

Quantum of Solace : B-
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