"Quantum of Solace" opened the weekend with a huge Bang in which only James Bond knows how to accomplish, earning over $67 million. It did beat out "Casino Royale's" opening weekend of $30 million. It was an entertaining thrill ride with some dialogue in between. It was much too short in my opinion, but only because I was on the edge of my seat for the entire length of the film wanting more and more. However, I was disappointed by some of the direction, but overall it is worth seeing. 
I liked the new Bond girl, named Olga Kurylenko, tremendously. She played Camille in the film, who was a dark and sexy character and looked very similar to Catherine Zeta-Jones. I enjoyed her part in the story and how she had "woman-power" strength that I wish could be bottled and distributed to every woman. 
Daniel Craig as "James Bond"
I did enjoy Daniel Craig, as James Bond, once again. He can pull off being a bad-ass hit man/spy character with such coordination and yet still have charisma to swoon his women prey. It interests me to see an actor pull this intense characteristic-combo off. It would be extremely hard (for an actor) to come across as evil enough to kill at every whim, without a blink or an ounce of sympathy, than immediately drop to the other side of the spectrum and be gentle with so much charisma. The crowd is cheering for James Bond when it would be so easy to see him as a sociopath. It is truly amazing to me to see that fine line an actor has to walk along sometimes to pull out his character on screen.
I would highly recommend "Quantum of Solace". Directed by Marc Forster, starring Daniel Craig and Olga Kurylenko. It runs 106 minutes.
I rate this film 3 stars out of a possible 4 stars.
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Husband and I have a date night tomorrow night to see this movie, I'm excited!
(also, Tropic Thunder is on DVD now, we haven't seen it yet but are probably going to buy it just because it's supposed to be hysterical. Have you seen it?)
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