The specifics of some scenes or characters perhaps were lost on me, but this was mainly because the film didn't spoon feed me - and I'd rather it made me think. Others have complained that the story made no sense (Kermode in particular went on about how little sense it made) - personally I didn't struggle with the overall flow. I liked this though as it cuts away the need to establish everything fresh and instead we get the development of the Quantum organisation - a thread that is good for several more films I suspect. Some have had the issue that QOS follows directly on from the previous film and that the narrative flows directly rather than restarting with a new threat.

Yes I thought it was strange that the traditional opening was saved for the end of the film but the absence of gadgets, innuendo, comedy etc didn't bother me one bit these were what I hated in Die Another Day in particular. QOS is not that much of a step away from the Bond tradition and it is just more of an action movie than a Bond movie. People praised the 'reboot' but apparently QOS is unacceptable? I do not think that the Bond films cannot change it up, but if they tried to do a Bond that was a romantic comedy I would be the first to come to this site complaining about 'what have they done to Bond?' so I'm not totally for change.

This had been tempered by some average reviews and also some negative ones that suggested that it was simply, not very good as a film - a lot of which have come from ideas over what a Bond film should be. I was looking forward to seeing this film but I'm not sure I was excited to see it.

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