QUANTUM OF SOLACE by Frank Palmcoast

When he's not watching, with beads of sweat, his fellow, legally blind, senior citizens parallel park, Frank Palmcoast is catching seven dollar movies at the local multiplex from sunny Pompano Beach, Florida. He's retired, he's angry at the world, he can't spell to save his life, and he hates Hollywood almost as much as Hillary Clinton, but that will not stop our irreverent, dementia fightin', AARP card carrying everyman from giving us a fresh take on all things Hollyweird. Besides, how can he pass up that marvelous senior citizen discount?

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Call him Palmcoast, Frank Palmcoast. Our legendary reviewer tackles a legendary film hero and his latest screen adventure: Quantum of Solace.

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A better title for this feeble Bond attempt would have been "Quantum Of Chaos" or perhaps "Lester the Ape takes On The Bad Guys". This new Bond has done so far in it's opening $30 million more than it's predecessor--FRIGHTENING! The opening sound track really sucked.My 007 traditionally won the day via charm, wit and of course cool gadgets and occasionally a fight but in this Bond wins mainly with violence. For this reviewer this was no more than an action movie with little dialog and a terrible plot. This plot obviously conceived in Starbucks, wants us to believe the villains want to control all the water supply in of all places Bolivia and charge of all people the Bolivians, absorbent amounts of Pesos for their water supply--are you kidding me or what.! Now with Obama becoming our President, how far in the future before Bond will be played by a black man and I ponder how future movie goers will deal with that reality. When producers of Bond were looking for a Bond replacement, my vote was for Danny Divito to assume the role but who listens to me!This new Bond is more like an action hero rather than the smooth, cool spy that we learned to love and enjoy.The casting director who chose Mathieu Malric to play the lead villain looked more like a constipated frog.Noticeably missing were the beautiful woman with the CUTE names. Daniel Craig appeared as a ruthless thug and acted like an ape. I pray that Craig will undoubtedly evolve into a more traditional and more drawn out Bond with some badly needed dialog and more so called, British wit! Your money would be better spent contributing to Ron Paul's presidential campaign!