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Sunday, November 09, 2008

Quantum of Solace movie review

Just Started Watching The movie Quantum of Solace

Megavideo Link: http://www.onlinevideodb.com/mv/?watch=Quantum_of_Solace_2008&id=TjRGTzA2U1YhRnJlZSBPbmxpbmUgTW92aWVzIWh0dHA6Ly93d3cub25saW5lbW92aWVsaW5rcy5uZXQv


Allright planning to watch this movie just after the end of days play at Nagpur 4th day.
Some of the comments in the site are not satisfactory about the quality but I wont care anyway being the movie freak as I’ am

This is a 86 minutes(quite short don’t you think) film so lets hope that it is entertaining


Hey this is bad the first few minutes are missing from this clip anyways I have always got Wikipedia to know the story
The film continues from Casino Royale with Bond driving from Lake Como to Siena, Italy – with the captured Mr. White in the boot of his car – when he is attacked by chasing henchmen. After evading his pursuers, Bond and M, interrogate White regarding his organisation, Quantum. M's trusted bodyguard Craig Mitchell turns traitor – allowing White to escape – Bond chases Mitchell across Siena and kills him. Through forensic investigations involving tracked banknotes, Bond heads to Haiti to find Mitchell's contact, Edmund Slate and kills him. He then poses as him, learning Slate was sent to kill Camille at the behest of her partner, Dominic Greene, the ruthless chairman of Greene Planet and a member of Quantum. Bond pursues her by motorbike and watches her meet with Greene, learning the businessman is helping General Medrano – who murdered Camille's family – to stage a coup d'état in Bolivia in exchange for a seemingly barren piece of desert land

I didn’t actually miss the entire storyline as mentioned above but only the opening car scene.

Almost ten minutes into the movie pure action till now not much of dialogue ….
WOW nice scene where he shoots Mitchell Just full of action till Now

Greene has Camille escorted away on Medrano's boat as a "sweetener" for their deal. Bond commandeers his own boat to rescue her (though she is unwilling) and leaves her in local care. Bond follows Greene, through the cellphone of Greene's henchman Elvis, to his private jet, which flies him to a performance of Tosca at Lake Constance, Austria. This is a clandestine way for members of Quantum to plan the coup, with each member communicating through special earpieces concealed in gift bags. Bond himself obtains an earpiece and disrupts the meeting. He then sends MI6 cellphone photos of various Quantum members as they flee the arena. As Greene abruptly departs from the opera, he is intercepted by Bond and a gun fight ensues in a restaurant. Bond confronts a bodyguard of Guy Haines, (who is an advisor of the British Prime Minister) on a rooftop, but the ensuing struggle causes him to fall on the hood of Greene's vehicle. Greene apparently does not recognize him and has him killed.
Here there is some extra information to add here is that Felix the CIA agent in Casino Royal is in this movie as well and CIA is involved with Greene cause they believe that the barren piece of land which he is going to get from General has oil…….

Believing Bond killed yet another potentially vital source of information, M has 007's passports and credit cards revoked. Bond is still able to travel to Italy by boat, where he reunites with his old ally René Mathis, who now lives in a hilltop villa awarded to him by MI6 as compensation. Both immediately relocate their efforts to La Paz, Bolivia. They are greeted by Strawberry Fields, an MI6 field operative from the local British Consulate. Although she explains Bond must return to the UK on the next available flight, he disobeys and seduces her in their hotel suite. That night, they attend a fund raiser being held by Greene, where Camille reappears. The Bolivian police attempt to set up Bond by putting a beaten Mathis in his car boot. As Bond picks Mathis up from the boot, the policemen open fire and fatally injure Mathis. Bond disarms and kills the policemen and comforts the dying Mathis, who asks Bond to forgive Vesper Lynd, and forgive himself for what happened to her.

Bond and Camille drive to the location of Greene's intended land acquisition, surveying the area in a Douglas DC-3 propeller plane. They are intercepted by a chopper and a fighter plane sent by Medrano and subsequently shot down. Before crashing, both Bond and Camille jump from the crippled plane and then freefall/parachute into a sink hole. There, the duo discover Greene is not interested in oil, but has been blockading supplies of fresh water, hidden in underground rivers. After this revelation, they return to La Paz, where Bond meets M and discovers Quantum murdered Fields by symbolically drowning her in oil. M orders Bond to disarm and end his activities in Bolivia, but he escapes by overpowering four MI6 operatives accompanying him in a lift. After this escape Bond encounters and speaks to M, stating he is not finished with his operation.

What not oil but blocking fresh water to the poor residents of Bolivia you got to be kiddin me….. HEHEHE

Bond meets his CIA ally Felix Leiter at a local bar, who informs Bond of where Greene is set to complete his deal with Medrano. Bond flees when other CIA agents arrive to kill him because of their deal with Greene for a share of alleged oil supplies in Bolivia. Bond and Camille go to an eco-hotel powered by hydrogen fuel cells, located in the Bolivian desert, where Greene is finalising the coup. As the various parties depart, Bond attacks and kills the departing Colonel of Police for betraying Mathis and sets off a chain of explosions when a hydrogen fuel tank is destroyed. Camille kills Medrano and Bond captures Greene. After interrogating him, he leaves Greene stranded in the middle of the desert with only a can of oil. Bond and Camille drive to a train station, where they finally kiss before she departs.
Bond goes to Kazan, Russia, where he confronts Vesper Lynd's former boyfriend, Yusef. Yusef is a Quantum henchman who specialises in seducing high-ranking women to get them to give up government assets as he stages his kidnappings, and is doing the same with Canadian agent Corinne Veneau. Bond has Corrine alert the Canadian Security Intelligence Service as he confronts Yusef. Later, Bond leaves Yusef's apartment and is confronted by M who is surprised that Bond did not kill Yusef. M reveals that Leiter has been promoted at the CIA, and Greene was found in the desert shot dead with motor oil in his stomach. Bond sets out into the cold night, aware that Mr. White and Quantum are still on the loose, and throws Vesper's necklace in the snow.
Man what a movie but fresh water has become so valuable now in the world that we now have to fight wars over it as well no wonder this is already true as far as India is concerned
Overall nice action movie and it will make millions all over the world as usual

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