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| REVIEWS BY | GRADE | COMMENTS |
| Paul Baack | B- | ...I’m not 100% sure that that’s Ian Fleming’s James Bond up there on the screen, but I don’t care. [Daniel Craig is] simply too compelling a 007 to not go along with.
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| Robert Cotton | B- |
...so, is [revenge] our hero’s motivation? Well, it might be if he didn’t hate [Vesper] so much for saving his life and giving him all the clues he needs to start hunting down her killers.
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| Bill Koenig | B+ |
...the film is tight, something that Eon hasn’t always delivered. The ending leaves things wide open for future adventures for a tougher, yet recognizable, Ian Fleming-created James Bond.
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| James McMahon | B- | ...badly outnumbered, Bond decides it’s a good idea for him to simply rush into the hotel, armed only with a single pistol, and start shooting people. That’s his grand plan. Bond is apparently not yet one of our great thinkers.
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| Ed Werner | B- |
René Mathis is without a doubt the best written, most fleshed out Bond ally since Kerim Bey in From Russia with Love, and provides one of the most heart-shredding scenes in a Bond film since On Her Majesty's Secret Service.
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| Tom Zielinski | B- | Quantum of Solace will be hugely successful commercially, which is bittersweet for me. Good for the producers, but Tosca is not for everyone.
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| Derek Johnson | B- | ...Quantum of Solace is frustrating. In looking backwards and forwards it cuts Bond, both physically and psychologically, in ways we’re not used to. READ MORE |
| Will Haun | A- |
While a real respect for Fleming clearly permeates the screenwriters’ product, true credit has to be again handed to Daniel Craig for his master work as James Bond.
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