None of it ever quite gels, as even Daniel Craig sometimes seems unsure about what's going on. Greene is part of a larger criminal organization called Quantum (which we later learn is actually part of the even larger criminal organization called Spectre), and wants to stage a coup to take control of Bolivia's water supply. White ( Jesper Christensen), they learn the hard way that MI6 has been compromised.īond bluffs his way into the middle of a shady deal between the CIA, represented by his 'brother from Langley', Felix Leiter (an underused Jeffrey Wright), and Gregg Beam (the wonderful David Harbour), and so-called environmentalist entrepreneur, Dominic Greene ( Mathieu Amalric). As Bond and M ( Jude Dench) interrogate Casino Royale's shadowy behind-the-scenes terrorist broker, Mr. This metaphor extends to the movie's plot. Picking up literally minutes after the end of Casino Royale, 2008's Quantum of Solace opens with a car chase so breakneck-paced that it's difficult to fully register the action. Before director Marc Forster labored over the difficult (yet underrated) World War Z, he helmed the first direct sequel to any James Bond movie.
