QUANTUM OF SOLACE

It was always going to difficult to follow up Casino Royale, but the producers of Quantum of Solace have done a pretty good job of trying. The film picks up where the other left off, and finds 007 on a mission of revenge. Devastated by Vesper’s death, James (Daniel Craig) is determined to find the people who betrayed her. In Haiti he meets the beautiful Camille (Olga Kurylenko), a woman with her own revenge agenda, and the trail leads to the sinister Dominic Greene (Matthieu Amalric). Quantum doesn’t pack the emotional punch of the previous film, and we’re back in the territory of evil men with grand plans for world domination, but it more than delivers on the action and eye candy’which is what you really want from 007. Two thumbs. (Lachlan Jobbins)