I thought “Quantum of Solace” was worse than “A View To A Kill”. As weak and tired as the 1985 Bond adventure was, it at least offered a John Barry score, some Cold War-era ambience and a small supporting role from Alison Doody(”Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade”) to help make it tolerable.
I rather enjoyed “Moonraker” and to a lesser extent, “Licence To Kill” so Latin American locations aren’t a problem for me. The problem with QOS was its dreadful PC/Marxist script and pretentiously slipshod direction.
“The problem with QOS was its dreadful PC/Marxist script and pretentiously slipshod direction.”
I’ll agree with the slipshod direction, but the bad guy was a front man for a “green” company that exploits people in the name of the environment!!!! That’s not that PC if you ask me. If the guy was the leader of the “Axxon” or “Shnell” or “British Petrol” corporation, I might by the Marxist angle ... but the bad guy was a Frenchman running Algore’s dream company!
The things that ticked me off about QoS was the terrible theme song, the poor opening credits, and the idiotic different fonts used for different cities in the film :-) .