Watched Quantum of Solace. The settings are more drab compared with those in other 007 movies, but I was brought to Siena and Talamone in Italy, Haiti, Bregenz in Austria, La Paz, Bolivia, and a possibly sound-set Russia. Daniel Craig is one of my favorite James Bond players, though he performs the role like a boy-man instead of Fleming's slick seducer and ruthless killer.

I've seen Skyfall_ and Quantum of Solace so far, and I see that overplaying M cuts the running time off Bond's romantic adventures with other women.

As to be expected, there are more than one sequence of spectacular destruction. I couldn't appreciate that desert hotel, though. The long shots looked like those of a cheap and unimaginative miniature model.

The lizard motif in both movies is quite perplexing.