It's about a green capitalist who works with the CIA and a treasonous general to overthrow the left wing government of Bolivia in exchange for access to resources. It's fucking crazy. As a bonus, they even mention that the general's whole goal is to keep the gov't from raising the minimum wage to $1.
Naturally, at the end the bad actors in the CIA get fired and everything is put right... But God damn, up until that nonsense it's an incredibly perceptive film
MI6 doesn't care either way. They fire him for killing some bad guy who was connected and he has to go rogue. He does it to save a hot lady not because he gives a shit - which makes sense as a motivation for an indoctrinated psychopath to suddenly be on the right side of things. I'm telling you, ideology-wise it's pretty good up until the last scene (tbf tho in real life they'd be completely on board with the plan and probably ice James Bond. The CIA tries to).
Action scenes are bad though. No sense of space, shaky cam is WAY overused, too many cuts and physics cheats so bond wins
And it's the Craig movie that gets shit on the most by critics and audiences. :curious-marx:
As a piece of cinema, it's kinda confused. The plot jumps around. The acting isn't nearly as good as Casino Royale. Bond's character digresses from the genuinely interesting emotionally complex character who does spy shit in his original film to Doing My Best Pierce Brosnan Impression.
Still not as bad as Spectre or Skyfall. But Casino Royale set the bar at "Good Spy Movie with Action Bits" and Quantum lowered it to "Better than Average Bond Movie with decent politics".
I recommend the Amazon series Hanna for similar reasons, its extremely based until at the last second it goes from the one CIA agent that rebelled against the secret assassin program and Hanna, the girl he rescued, vs. the whole CIA and the State department to pulling some similar lib-ish nonsense but it's pretty rad watching a bunch of CIA goons get owned by a teenager. There's even a brief shot of a CIA kill list that's just leftist politicians, journalists, civil rights activists, and environmentalists.
