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Metascore®58 out of 100 | Mixed or average reviews

Critic scores range from 0 to 100, with higher scores indicating more favorable reviews.

  • 75
    Entertainment Weekly | Lisa Schwarzbaum

    The point is, wherever he is, this James Bond is pissed. And that ceaseless anger begins to curdle every sequence that might otherwise bring a little happiness. I mean happiness for us, the viewers. Read full review

  • 75
    The Onion (A.V. Club) | Keith Phipps

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

  • 70
    Time | Richard Corliss

    Kurylenko, a lovely Russian-Ukrainian hybrid who is oddly duskied up to look vaguely Latina, is a whiz at raising Quantum's temperature and gradually luring Bond out of his stolid shell. Read full review

  • 63
    ReelViews | James Berardinelli

    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 full review

  • 63
    USA Today | Claudia Puig

    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 full review

  • 60
    Variety | Derek Elley

    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 full review

  • 50
    Chicago Sun-Times | Roger Ebert

    Don't ever let this happen again to James Bond. Quantum of Solace is his 22nd film and he will survive it, but for the 23rd it is necessary to go back to the drawing board and redesign from the ground up. Please understand: James Bond is not an action hero! Read full review

  • 50
    The New York Times | A.O. Scott

    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 full review

  • 50
    Los Angeles Times | Kenneth Turan

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

  • 10
    Village Voice | Robert Wilonsky

    A spastic, indecipherable, unholy, and altogether unwatchable mess. Read full review