Hey folks, Harry here - just got a ring from the BBC's Lizo Mzimba, who just got out of QUANTUM OF SOLACE, just typed up his thoughts, just posted them to the BBC - and then picked up the phone excitedly to tell me - THEY"RE UP! You can read his full review at the BBC - link below - but on the phone, he essentially told me the below, which is from the review, as the key thing that stuck out in his mind about the film. SOUNDS LIKE WHAT I WANT!

It's a film that feels like the second part of a trilogy, with this being the bleaker second act.

For a lot of the movie Bond is a particularly unsympathetic character, and often it's only Craig's performance along with the shifting morality of Bond's legion of enemies that forces the audience to root for him.
Olga Kurylenko, who plays a refreshingly different kind of female companion, does well with a part that has far more depth than most Bond girls.

READ THE WHOLE REVIEW AT THE BBC!!!

Meanwhile - Ali from London & TheShizNit sent us this:

QUANTUM OF SOLACE
Where does a character go once he's been reinvented? Stripped down to
the bare essentials, the James Bond of Casino Royale – the 007 that
Ian Fleming would have approved of – proved extremely popular with
audiences and critics alike, enough for them wipe the slate clean and
agree to start afresh. Bond now rebooted, battered physically and
emotionally, therefore comes into this sequel a fully-formed, grounded
character with places to go: a man with drive, reason, purpose. But
despite his passport getting a workout thanks to a jet-setting
narrative that takes him half way across the globe, the James Bond of
Quantum Of Solace goes precisely nowhere. At times, you feel you can
see the character – and by proxy the writers – actually thinking, "So
what now?"

We pick up with Bond, James Bond, mere minutes after the finale of
Casino Royale – in Italy with the sinister Mr. White (Jesper
Christensen) in the boot of his car, nursing a painful looking leg
injury. But perhaps British intelligence isn't what it used to be. "We
used to be so paranoid," laughs White, "looking over our shoulders,
thinking you were listening to our conversations. But you didn't even
know we exist!" White claims his organisation Quantum – think SPECTRE
but without the awesome lairs – has men everywhere, and he's not
wrong. Bond travels to Haiti, London, Bolivia and Russia chasing
Quantum goons, principally the weasely Dominic Greene; a smarmy
eco-crusader in public, but facilitator of evil deeds behind closed
doors. Think Al Gore gone insane with power.

Bond's arc here ought to be revenge; the death of Vesper Lynd the
righteous cause. But Craig's emotionless visage is so blank, the
script so bereft of character, Quantum Of Solace feels like just
another day at the office for 007. Sure, he kills a few people he
shouldn't. He breaks the rules. He goes off the grid. But what kind of
Bond would he be if he didn't? It isn't until the final scene that
you'll actually remember Bond's motivations, so meaningless are his
exploits up until that point.

Craig, it must be said, is excellent. Any doubt he could inhabit the
role must surely now evaporate. His Bond is a real bruiser: smacked,
cracked, bleeding and beaten from pillar to post, Craig looks like
hell in the best possible way. The problems with Quantum Of Solace
should not fall at his feet. This is the best Bond he could be given
the circumstances.

No, the issues are with the studio's choice of director in Marc
Forster. This is a man who knows how to put dramatic audiences through
the wringer (Monster's Ball, Finding Neverland, The Kite Runner) but
he's completely out of his depth handling a franchise this large.
High-tempo sequences, like the opening car chase and an extremely
Bournian rooftop pursuit, are disorientating in the extreme: too fast,
too sloppy and too ruthlessly edited. Often, things change in the
blink of an eye – one second Bond is lying on his back, the next he's
jumping out a window, the next he's swinging from a rope. It's often
impossible to keep up.

Fight scenes often seem practised and stagey (Bond smashes an opponent
through a wall with ridiculous ease), while one shot sees 007 riding a
motorbike... at about 25mph. These are all hallmarks of a director
unfamiliar with action; perhaps former Paul Greengrass protege Dan
Bradley should be held responsible (it would certainly explain the
feeling of deja vu – as Bond jumps through yet another window, you may
feel like yelling, Alan Partridge style, "STOP GETTING BOURNE
WRONG!").

What's more, the realistic tone struck by Martin Campbell in Casino
Royale has taken something of a leave of absence here. MI6 use flashy,
over-the-top Minority Report-style holo-computers, when anyone who
reads the papers knows that British intelligence can't even hop in a
taxi without leaving their laptop in the back. Bond, leaping on a bad
guy's bonnet, finds time to fire of a clunky quip before his bullet.
Amalric's bad guy lurches uncomfortably from believably slimy to
ridiculously evil, lunging at Bond with an axe in a final showdown.
Though I hesitate to compare it to Indy's infamous 'fridge' escape,
the scene where 007 jumps out of a plane without a parachute /and
survives/ seems a little too far-fetched even for a Bond movie. All we
ask is for some consistency – this isn't Crank, this is Bond.

This is not a disaster on par with Die Another Day. In fact, in parts
it's quite watchable – Craig is a magnetic lead, those piercing blue
eyes are quite the attention grabber. Judi Dench, meanwhile, is once
again magnificent; all British reserve, stiff upper lip and frosty
delivery (a low-key scene with M at home, removing her make-up while
issuing orders, is perhaps the most disarming in the entire movie).
The Bond girls look the part, too, even if Olga Kurylenko (ticking the
boxes marked 'feisty' and 'headstrong') lacks personality and Gemma
Arterton (Agent Shagwell) lacks any decent screen time. On a second
viewing, perhaps the topsy-turvy storyline settles a little – a
menagerie of accents does mean some important plot points will be
missed first time around.

But make no mistake, Quantum Of Solace is a crushing disappointment.
Try as you might, you'll be unable to invest in any of the characters
– now Bond's heart has been broken, it's like nothing ever changed and
the character exists simply to get to the next location and car chase
and gun fight. It's a perfectly average action film, certainly better
than the last few Brosnan outings. But when Casino Royale set the bar
so high, it's not acceptable for a follow-up to simply stroll under
it. Once again, Bond finds himself at a cross-roads, standing still,
without direction. So... what now?