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Title: Only Craig rises above film's pedestrian script and cinematography
Review: Unfortunately, even the superb acting talents of Daniel Craig can't save Quantum of Solace from a pedestrian script and a flash editing style that makes the action scenes incomprehensibly difficult to follow most of the time. While flash editing has been used effectively before many times, it usually isn't combined with fast moving and deliberately over-shaky hand held camera work, and for good reason. Rather than impress, the action scenes in Quantum of Solace simply disorient the viewer. I found myself fast forwarding through the action scenes, the first time I've ever done that in a James Bond film. Rent it once to watch Craig's performance. Buy it only if it's important for you to have a complete set of Bond films.
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