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Daniel Craig reprises his role as James Bond in a rare connecting Bond series with Quantum of Solace. Craig's performance as a cocky, bold, and brash bond is the perfect  Bond for our current generation. You always get to see him have heart with events and twists in the storyline but rarely do you see him carry that emotion over to other characters in the film.

In Quantum of Solace Bond is back and he's pissed off as ever. What he thought was his true love in Vespa betrayed him in the previous film and then she ends up sacrificing her life for his.  This makes Bond angry on a number of levels and he's set to get revenge against the organization that not only made a fool of him but killed his woman too. Not good. The film starts when the preceding film left off. Bond catches a key member of the organization and he's got him in for questioning with M (played by Judy Dench.) In questioning though, the perp gets away because of an inside job by a member of M's personal security detail. The fact that the organization tried to kill M further enrages Bond.

He follows his leads and runs into a crooked real estate mogul named Dominic Greene that provides support and resources to dictators to take over countries in exchange for land and drilling rights. Dominic Greene is played by Mathieu Amalric and while he doesn't do an amazing job as the key villain he's apt in Bond fashion and doesn't draw away from the bond character and his key romantic interest in the film Camille played by Olga Kurylenko. And while Bond and Camille are moving toward the same goal, she has her own interest's of revenge. She is out to kill Green's next potential dictator for killing her family, and while fitting with the themes of the movie, draw away from it in an odd fashion. It's hard to see why Green is the dominant villain in the film even though he basically works for his dictators. It's kind of like having a henchman be the key villain.

While Quantum of Solace is another proper outlet for Daniel Craig's badass Bondness, the storyline in the film moves too much to prove to be over the top enjoyable. While it was cool to have connecting Bond movies, this is a film that doesn't hold up with it's predecessor. Casino Royale focused more on a silent intensity while Quantom of Solace just brings the action. It's a great Bond, just not the better Bond of the next generation of the franchise.