Quantum of Solace
Columbia Pictures | Release Date: November 14, 2008 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
58
METASCORE
Mixed or average reviews based on 48 Critic Reviews
Positive:
24
Mixed:
22
Negative:
2
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Critic Reviews

Critic scorePublicationBy date
100
PremiereJames Jung
Quantum, thanks to a deft blend of exotic escapism and bare-bones modernism, is more than strong enough to be judged on its own. In fact, it's the perfect Bond film. Read full review
83
Tampa Bay TimesSteve Persall
Quantum of Solace bends whatever rules 2006's Casino Royale didn't break, presenting more action in less time, with a world domination scheme based on natural resources rather than unnatural gadgets. Read full review
80
EmpireKim Newman
As with "The Dark Knight," the only real caveat is that while it's exciting and imaginative, it's not exactly anyone's idea of fun. To keep in the game, perhaps the next movie could let the hero enjoy himself a bit more. Read full review
80
The Hollywood ReporterRay Bennett
The new picture allows hardly any flourishes of style and character in the 007 tradition, but moviegoers seeking an adrenaline rush will be well pleased. Read full review
80
Arizona RepublicBill Goodykoontz
Quantum is hugely entertaining. Read full review
80
Orlando SentinelRoger Moore
The direction, by Marc Forster (Monster's Ball, Finding Neverland), is breathless, with lovely grace notes — he uses silences to end his action beats. And if this incarnation of Bond still doesn't inspire affection, he does command respect, awe, a sense that a real man is risking life and limb for queen and crown. Read full review
80
The TelegraphTim Robey
Quantum of Solace offers next to no solace, if we mean respite, but in plunging its hero into a revenge-displacement grudge mission, it has the compensation of a rock-solid dramatic idea, and the intelligence to run and run with it. Read full review
78
Austin ChronicleMarc Savlov
It's a grim, dark, and relentlessly violent film throughout; James Bond as Terminator rather than Templar – but it delivers the goods in bloody high style: explosively, sexily, and with 007 shaken (not stirred) to his icy core. Read full review
75
Entertainment WeeklyLisa Schwarzbaum
The point is, wherever he is, this James Bond is pissed. And that ceaseless anger begins to curdle every sequence that might otherwise bring a little happiness. I mean happiness for us, the viewers. Read full review
75
Philadelphia InquirerSteven Rea
Never less than engaging. Read full review
75
The A.V. ClubKeith Phipps
It's dark and exciting, but with little breathing room. Read full review
75
Seattle Post-IntelligencerWilliam Arnold
The movie is a relentlessly enjoyable star vehicle and a hard-charging action-o-rama full of the usual Bondian elements, for the most part well done. It's one of the year's better action films. Read full review
75
Portland OregonianShawn Levy
The least erotic, exotic, luxurious and sarcastic Bond film ever made. Its hero is haunted, obsessed, merciless, cold. There are no gadgets or flippant one-liners and there's almost no sex. Read full review
75
San Francisco ChronicleMick LaSalle
After the heights of "Casino Royale," the series falls back into routine with this above-average thriller, filled with over-the-top action, familiar Bond atmosphere and a story that's impossible to follow - and why bother anyway? Daniel Craig is still the coolest man in the universe. That definitely helps. Read full review
75
New York PostKyle Smith
Revenge is a dish best served with bullets, high explosives and giant rolling flameballs. In Quantum of Solace, James Bond orders the revenge buffet, deluxe. Read full review
70
TimeRichard Corliss
Kurylenko, a lovely Russian-Ukrainian hybrid who is oddly duskied up to look vaguely Latina, is a whiz at raising Quantum's temperature and gradually luring Bond out of his stolid shell. Read full review
70
The New YorkerAnthony Lane
Quantum of Solace is too savage for family entertainment, but, as a study in headlong desperation, it's easier to believe in than many more ponderous films. Read full review
70
SalonStephanie Zacharek
Craig never overreaches, and yet he accomplishes the unthinkable. He's not the Bond we ever asked for or hoped for, yet he's reimagined the character in ways we never could have foreseen. He's Bond with soul. Read full review
70
Chicago ReaderJ.R. Jones
The purpose of the Bond girl, and of the Bond film, is still to stroke the male ego. Bond changes just enough to stay exactly the same. Read full review
63
Rolling StonePeter Travers
It delivers the popcorn goods, but it ignores the poison eating at Bond's insides. Killer mistake. Read full review
63
USA TodayClaudia Puig
The stunts are as muscular and the film as handsome to look at as the hero who so ably pulls them off. But the story linking it all together is thin and weak. Read full review
63
Chicago TribuneMichael Phillips
The way it's shot and cut, it plays like a parody of a car commercial shot in the style of a Bond film. Read full review
63
ReelViewsJames Berardinelli
The film's biggest problem is its director. Marc Forster is an experienced art house filmmaker with impressive credits (most recently, "The Kite Runner)", but he is clueless when it comes to action sequences. Read full review
63
Baltimore SunMichael Sragow
Thanks to Daniel Craig, the most Byronic of 007s, who, with scarcely any help from the filmmakers, manages the astonishing task of rooting an outlandish yet sober-sided movie in reality and bringing it an air of wicked amusement, too. Read full review
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