Ultimately Forster had only six weeks to cut the film.Īnother issue was the Writer’s Strike (Nov 07-Feb 08). Quantum of Solace was given a release date of 2008, which would be only 18 months from the first day of shooting. It’s like a revenge thriller with a damaged hero, which director Marc Forster was openly aiming for. Yet he is breaking all the rules, downing whisky, swiping clues and killing his way through the story.

At the end of Casino Royale we saw his false bravado with “the bitch is dead” and here she apparently means nothing to him. It starts in the sewers, continues across the ground, then rooftops, then to the top of a tower. The foot chase during The Palio horse race is excellent. It’s so amusing because we on the other side thinking the MI6, the CIA they’re looking over our shoulders, they’re listening to our conversations and the truth is you don’t even know we exist!”Ī moment later and M’s bodyguard Mitchell (now revealed as one of White’s men) has killed another agent and taken a shot at M. White: “You really don’t know anything about us. Then the speak to White – and this happens: Bond insists he is in control as he swigs a whisky and swipes the boyfriend’s photo. We learn that Vesper’s boyfriend was found disfigured in the sea, but neither M nor Bond buy that. Mr White, shot in the leg by Bond at the end of Casino Royale, is in the trunk of the car. The scene ends with Bond driving into an underground facility in Siena, Italy. Once it settles, the chase is a great start as Bond truly looks in danger, especially as the door of his car is lost and every bullet strike, broken window or crash is hair-raising.

The editing sure makes you feel that you are in the middle of the action, but at times it’s hard to work out what is going on.

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