From the director of Monster's Ball

I watched Quantum Of Solace tonight. After watching Schindler's List last night I returned to form and had struggling concentrating but I think that is also a reflection of the latest Bond film. I found it to be pretty incoherent. There seems to be a good film in there somewhere with interesting themes such as American Imperialism and oil in South America but it all gets lost. The script was finished two hours before the writers' strike and they should have spent more time on it.

I read the wikipedia synopsis afterwards and the film is nowhere near that clear. Films are often derided for having too much or obvious exposition but this didn't have enough; sometimes a film needs to say, "this is the plot". It's one thing to have mystery in a film but something else to have the audience asking, "What exactly is going on?" It might be better on a second viewing but I'm not rushing to do that.