Commentary: 'Quantum' shares Fleming title, but not story

November 13, 2008 "Quantum" quotes: I've never been particularly good at following the intricate plot twists and turns of Bond films, but I must confess that after seeing "Quantum of Solace," distributed domestically by Sony, I was at a greater loss than usual at understanding the story. Afterward, walking through Westwood to dinner with my wife, I observed that I couldn't say much about who was doing what to whom, though I'd certainly enjoyed being along for the ride -- both literally, with the film's gripping car-chase opening set piece, and figuratively. [...] -- and I'm really not making this up -- we passed two guys on the street who'd also just left the screening and were saying to each other precisely the same thing: "Quantum" is a string of hyper-edited action sequences, with little or no story to hold them together.

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