Bond. James Bond..

I know its The Double-O-Seven, but still, I’d like to be brutally honest about it. I feel like I owe myself an honest confession. A confession, in essence, would have to be honest, right.

Quantum of solace (I’m not sure how it got translated to ‘Ketenangan dalam dunia penuh kesengsaraan’ but it was subtitled as such), is a much anticipated Bond movie no doubt. The bubbles of excitement created over it was spilling over the rims, when it came out, people flooded the cinemas in a bid to get a glimpse before it became old news. I wasn’t impatient to catch it at the movies, but I was excited to do it soon.


And so, yesterday I did just that, together with a bunch of parlimail members back from a kenduri at marine; In my baju kurung, coz fiancé insisted he likes seeing me in one and is not happy with the idea of me changing after that for the movie. I managed to get zue to wear baju kurung to the movies too so I wasn’t feeling too out of place. Turned out a lot of people in QBMall (particularly around the GSC area) were in baju kurung and kebaya too. I’m guessing they all attended a kenduri too prior to getting there.



Back to Bond, Daniel Craig did not disappoint. He was as charming and hot as he was in Casino Royale. And the movie was great, sadly, only while it lasted. I had a good impression about it coming out the theatre, but afterwards, after the effects of all the action-grandeur scenes has settled and I had a chance to reflect back on the whole movie, I felt something lacking. I can’t put my finger on it, but there was something amiss in the way it ended, or maybe it was the storyline? I’m not sure. All I know is, coming back from the movies, the wow effect evaporated, like there was something incomplete about the movie. No doubt the action was jam-packed and superb, but really, a movie is not all just about actions. Quantum of solace aced in that area, where actions and explosions are concerned, but somewhere along the way, the plot kinda lost a bit of its direction. I was surprised I felt that way, because initially I thought it was good. Somehow the appreciation did not linger and when you sit down and think about it, imagine taking out the action scenes, what was there really? Bond seemed like he was aimlessly going about things, passion lacking, just cold and vengeful. If that was what the directors intended for the viewers, sending across the message of him being affected by his gf’s death in the previous installment, then they obviously achieved their objective, but what good is it if a viewer feels something ‘s not quite complete about it. Even if it was meant to have an open ending, suggestive of another sequel in tow, you would have to feel complete about it. Like casine royale, so the girlfriend died and the ending obviously portrayed an incoming installment in continuation but where it stopped, it felt complete. But somehow, Quantum of Solace did not provide so much the same solace.

Fiance expressed the same thing, so you see, I’m not simply trying to throw a wet blanket over it on my own. Its probably mutual for a number of other people, I don’t know. But like fiancé said, while the action was great, the plot was a little off. To quote his exact word, it was all a bit ‘huru-hara’.

Lucky the action made up for it, and not so poorly either because while it lasted, I actually thought it was great. This is not to say I did not enjoy it though, I did, while it lasted. So please watch and enjoy if you haven’t and if you have, hope the awe-effects lasted much longer for you that it did not give you any room to think otherwise. *winks*