QUANTUM OF SOLACE
Headline: ** A More Personal Bond **
Title: QUANTUM OF SOLACE
Quality: * * * Acceptability: -1
SUBTITLES: -- Brief English subtitles --
WARNING CODES:
Language: LL
Violence: VV
Sex: S
Nudity: N
RATING: PG-13
RELEASE: November 14, 2008
TIME: 106 minutes
STARRING: Daniel Craig, Judi Dench, Olga Kurylenko, Mathieu Amalric, Giancarlo Giannini, Gemma Arterton, Jeffrey Wright, and Jesper Christensen
DIRECTOR: Marc Forster
PRODUCERS: Michael G. Wilson and Barbara Broccoli
EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS: Anthony Waye and Callum McDougall
WRITER: Neal Purvis, Robert Wade and Paul Haggis
BASED ON THE NOVEL/PLAY BY: N/A
DISTRIBUTOR: MGM/Columbia Pictures/Sony Pictures Entertainment
CONTENT: (B, H, AP, C, LL, VV, S, N, A, D, M) Light moral worldview with some humanist elements, plus a cynical view toward the CIA and American foreign policy which turns to the positive as the characters seem to realize that loyalty toward friends and country must be combined with personal integrity, or it can lead to corruption, and woman mentions Christmas presents she gave an aide who betrayed her loyalty, which shows how evil that betrayal was; 17 obscenities (no "f" words) and one strong profanity; plenty of action violence includes car chase, vehicles crash, man threatened, extensive chase on foot, two men dangle on scaffold that's moving around a lot, men fight, boat chase, explosions, gunfights, plane chase, machine gun fire, villain tries to rape woman but other woman comes to kill him and ends up fighting with him, corrupt Bolivian police fire at hero, body dumped; implied fornication before man is seen kissing woman's bare back, implied attempted rape as woman fights back and brief talk about a woman sleeping with a man to get close to another man in order to kill him because he raped and murdered her mother and sister; upper male nudity and some female cleavage; alcohol use; smoking; and, lying, extortion, hero framed for murder, and rebellion against authority.
GENRE: Spy Thriller
INTENDED AUDIENCE: Teenagers and adults
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SUMMARY: QUANTUM OF SOLACE, the newest James Bond movie, finds Agent 007 still going after the mysterious crime organization that blackmailed his dead lover to betray him in CASINO ROYALE. This latest entry has some exciting moments and a light moral resolution to the plot's ethical dilemmas, but caution is still warranted for strong action violence, foul language and brief sexual references.
IN BRIEF:
QUANTUM OF SOLACE, the newest James Bond movie, picks up one hour after the last movie, CASINO ROYALE. Bond and his boss, M, are still after the mysterious crime organization that blackmailed Bond's dead lover to betray him. The trail leads to Haiti, where Bond encounters a Bolivian general and Dominic Greene, who seems to be allied with the crime syndicate. Greene is trying to work out some kind of sinister deal with the General and a faction in the CIA, which wants to take back Bolivia from the Marxist government. Greene and his organization have a secret scheme of their own, however, but Bond has to work against the CIA and his boss to uncover it.
QUANTUM OF SOLACE is not your typical Bond flick. The story unfolds in a more personal way than usual, with Bond and his boss trying to deal with his desire for revenge against the organization that blackmailed his dead lover into betraying him. Bond eventually forgoes revenge, but not without personal cost. The moral resolution to the plot's ethical dilemmas balances out the movie's strong action violence, occasional obscenities and brief, subdued, sexual references.
Please see the CONTENT section above for other potential content problems that may affect your decision about whether to see this movie.
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