Bond filtered through Bourne, film is over-edited to the point where you have to fight for a plot to materialise. (Not to mention that you just don't know where you are half the time.) Disappointing from the title sequence and theme song on, film is spectacularly well set up and edited, by Matt Chessé (Kite Runner, Finding Neverland) and Richard Pearson (Bourne Supremacy - see, told you so) and shot by Roberto Schaeffer. Olga Kurylenko is one good thing about it and although Mathieu Amalric is quietly sinister he doesn't have the presence for a Bond villain. With Judi Dench, Giancarlo Giannini, Rory Kinnear, Gemma Arterton, Jeffrey Wright. Paul Ritter's in it, but we didn't notice.
Good opening in Siena, then falls apart somewhat.
The quantum is the leap Skyfall made after it.
Paul Haggis (Crash) has been brought in to write, along with series regulars Rob Wade and Neal Purvis - but you wouldn't notice.
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