Action once more

Producer: Michael G Wilson, Barbara Broccoli

Director: Marc Forster

Writer: Paul Haggis, Neal Purvis and Robert Wade

Stars: Daniel Craig,Olga Kurylenko,Mathieu Amalric, Judi Dench, Giancarlo Giannini

Plot: Agent 007 - Bond busts the racket of corrupt business man and a Bolivian dictator on the verge of exploiting the nation's water resource.

Verdict: All action, no novelty.

Box Office Prospects: Bond fans will flock this franchise with fervour.

Creative Quotient:

This 22nd Bond film packs in all the de rigeur features of Agent 007's exploits - chases, fist fights, raining bullets, air drama, exotic locales, betrayal, revenge, haunting past and of course the leggy ladies.

Bond (Daniel Craig) is back with his penetrating blue-eyed gaze, he has rounded up Mr White in Italy. As he and his boss M (Judi Dench) begin interrogating him in the basement of a colloseum with a thumping horse race in progress above. Mr White scoffs at them to reveal that their mysterious organisation had people everywhere and suddenly M's personal security guard sprays them all with bullets.

Taking advantage of the ensuing confusion, the traitor flees with Bond hot on his heels. Threading their way through huge crowd of spectators, the chase continues over building scaffolds and tiled roofs until Bond guns down his victim eventually. Bond gets picked up by mysterious Camille (Olga Kurylenko) who leads him right to the heart of the conspiracy between Bolivian dictator and business brain Dominic Greene (Mathieu Amalric). This is a vendetta saga where Camille wants to avenge her parents' murder at the hands of the barbarian dictator while Bond wants get to the bottom of why his last lady love betrayed him for her notorious organisation - Qunatum.

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