The violence in his (Craig's) first outing, "Casino Royale," was notably intense, and while Quantum of Solace is not quite as brutal, the mood is if anything even more grim and downcast.Read the full review

Thank heaven for Judi Dench, whose M provides Quantum of Solace its sole quantum of peppery brio.Read the full review

The stunts are as muscular and the film as handsome to look at as the hero who so ably pulls them off. But the story linking it all together is thin and weak.Read the full review

Quantum of Solace, the first bona fide sequel in the Bond series, has the poky pace and expository padding of the middle chapter of a trilogy.Read the full review

Stripped of "Royale's" humor, elegance and reinvented old-school stylishness, Quantum has little left except its plot, which is rudimentary and slightly barmy, in the line of the Roger Moore pics of the '70s and '80s.Read the full review

The film's biggest problem is its director. Marc Forster is an experienced art house filmmaker with impressive credits (most recently, "The Kite Runner)", but he is clueless when it comes to action sequences.Read the full review

A model of mediocrity.Read the full review

It's dark and exciting, but with little breathing room.Read the full review

All dressed up with no particular place to go, this 22nd Bond film tries hard but ends up an underachiever.Read the full review