History YMMV / QuantumOfSolace

* CompleteMonster: See [[Monster/JamesBond here]] for both the film and game.

* ContestedSequel: The movie is highly divisive. Either this is an okay Bond movie that's not as good as ''Film/CasinoRoyale2006'', or it's an egregious case of {{Sequelitis}}. ''Skyfall'' was put in DevelopmentHell due to studio reshuffling and licensing issues, making ''Quantum'' even more divisive over time and leading to a giant WhatMightHaveBeen: had the third Craig-era Bond film come out faster, would it have retained continuity and cashed in the plot coupons Bond picked up in ''Quantum''? About the only thing the base can agree on is that ''Casino Royale'' and ''Film/{{Skyfall}}'' each sit on one end of the Bond spectrum of seriousness vs. crazy-but-awesome... and then there's ''Quantum'': a terrible Bond movie but solid film, a terrible Bond movie and terrible film, or a solid film ''and'' solid Bond movie. For what it's worth, many reviewers couldn't make up their minds either.

** Agent Fields is a simple clerk working for MI6 who gets swayed by Bond's charms and dragged into his RoaringRampageOfRevenge, [[spoiler:and ends up paying for it with her life. Even the stoic Bond was left guilt-ridden and furious at her death.]]

** The new squeeze of Vesper's boyfriend who works for Canadian intelligence is played by Creator/StanaKatic, who would later become famous for playing NYPD detective Kate Beckett in ''Series/{{Castle}}''.

* MoralEventHorizon: From Camille's backstory, one suspects that Medrano has made crossing this into a career. He's already a murderer, a torturer, an arsonist, and a rapist by backstory, so after he tries to rape the hostess, there's really no way his KarmicDeath can be too harsh.

* WTHCastingAgency: The choice of Music/JackWhite and Music/AliciaKeys for the film's theme song, "Another Way to Die". It's usually agreed that both musicians could've made a good title track by themselves, but the choice to put them together is part of the reason why the final track remains so controversial.

** [[TheHeavy Dominic Greene]] is a slimy, high-ranking member of [[NebulousEvilOrganisation Quantum]], seeking to take control of Bolivia by installing dictator General Medrano, who would be [[PuppetKing indebted to his whims]]. A total sociopath who fondly recalls assaulting a childhood crush for insulting him, Greene extends the same treatment to his lover Camille when he discovers she's using him to avenge her murdered family at the hands of Medrano, handing Camille over to Medrano to be raped and murdered with smug cheer. Reacting to repeated interference by James Bond by having one of the spy's associates drowned in motor oil and shooting one of his close friends, Greene's [[LackOfEmpathy callousness]] affects innocents just as much, as he orders a security guard murdered [[LeaveNoWitnesses just for seeing Greene in the wrong place]]. Ultimately planning to control the water supply of Bolivia for a fortune, Greene deliberately plunges the country into a horrible drought that leaves its citizens suffering and dying, and when Medrano tries to refuse cowing to Greene's demands, Greene threatens to simply castrate, kill, and replace him with another figurehead.
** [[TheGeneralissimo General Medrano]] raped and killed Camille's family in front of her, and burnt down the house. He conspires with Dominic Greene, deliberately engineering a nationwide drought in Bolivia to allow Quantum to get its hands on his nation's water supply and having the gall to [[FrameUp frame the government]] for selling off its rainforests. Medrano is willing to plunge his nation into drought and famine, dooming multiple innocent people, [[DespotismJustifiesTheMeans just so he can have an excuse to seize power]]. When Greene informs Medrano how expendable he truly is to Quantum, Medrano buckles under pressure and acquiesces to Greene's demands before [[AttemptedRape trying to rape his maid]] out of frustration. When Camille intervenes, Medrano tries to rape and murder her as well, [[EvilGloating mocking her about her mother and sister]].

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* FauxSymbolism: Director Marc Forster made it a point for the film's action sequences to be based around [[FourElementEnsemble the four elements]], though the only one which has some bearing on the plot itself is the final battle centered around fire.

** Enemies do increased damage and have more accuracy, which combined with the bad hit detection/environment collison, results in plenty of Fake Difficulty.

** While there are two new weapons (A Chrome Full-Auto Glock replacing the two Glocks in the original Xbox 360/[=PS3=]/PC version and a shotgun that's MP Only.) several pre-existing weapons were downgraded, snipers and the LMG for instance lack a first person reload and are simply brought off-screen and back again without even a sound effect.

* SugarWiki/NoProblemWithLicensedGames: The film had a solid, if not particularly inspired, FPS (even if it's more of a ''Casino Royale'' adaptation - only five of its twenty levels are from ''Quantum of Solace''). The [=PS2=] version is a well made third person shooter, and the DS is hard to describe. Incidentally, the Next-Gen and PC versions were done by [[VideoGame/CallOfDuty Treyarch]] using the same engine as ''VideoGame/CallOfDuty'' and were a solid FPS in that vein. The PC port was unfortunately locked to 30 frames per second (which is ''utterly pathetic'' by PC standards), but this can be fixed with a fan-made hack.

* FanPreferredCutContent: "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bE497uouhZc No Good About Goodbye]]" by Music/ShirleyBassey is widely considered to be a much superior song to the much-maligned "Another Way to Die".

** Dominick Greene when he goes AxCrazy. He is, ironically, the only Craig-era Bond villain to actually engage in physical combat with Bond at a film's climax, but he is clearly not suited to do so, eventually even ''axing his own foot'' in the process.

** The fact that Quantum's scheme is foiled every step of the way, even despite having American support, makes them pretty laughable villains, especially since they're a stand-in for SPECTRE. [[spoiler:Which might by why SPECTRE themselves basically destroyed Quantum by the time ''Spectre'' occurs.]]

** Elvis' bowlcut, which makes him look like [[Creator/JimCarrey Lloyd]] from ''Film/DumbAndDumber''.
** The MoodWhiplash following [[spoiler:Mathis's death]] of Bond throwing his dead body into a dumpster and looting his wallet.

** While there are two new weapons (A Chrome Full-Auto Glock replacing the two Glocks in the original Xbox 360/[=PS3=]/PC version and a shotgun that's MP Only.) several pre-existing weapons were downgraded, snipers and the LMG for instance lack an first person reload and are simply brought off-screen and back again without even a sound effect.

* {{Sequelitis}}: As a direct followup to ''Casino Royale'', it was hit by this hard as fans considered it to be an underwhelming continuation of Bond's revenge-driven pursuit of Quantum, with both the villains and their ultimate scheme to be badly overshadowed by those of the previous film. Especially unfortunate as it is one of the few films in the franchise to serve as a direct sequel to a preceding movie, which prior to the reboot initiated by ''Casino Royale'' had maintained at best only a loose continuity. To date, it is generally considered the weakest of Craig's ''Bond'' movies. A common complaint is that while ''Casino Royale'' put the action style of ''Film/TheBourneSeries'', ''Quantum'' downright tries to be a ''Bourne'' movie with Bond (with the excessive JitterCam only helping the notion).

** Dominic Greene is popularly cited as the weakest of the Craig-era villains, and one of the most underwhelming baddies in the franchise's history. He doesn't have any of the visceral psychosis or sadism of Le Chiffre, Silva or Oberhauser, and he overall comes off more as a shyster trying to make a quick buck than as a WorthyOpponent for [=MI6=]'s top agent. It's pretty telling that ''Film/{{Spectre}}'' barely acknowledges him as it retcons the events of the Craig movies as [[HijackedByGanon SPECTRE's machinations]], and he isn't even included in the literal RoguesGallery towards the end.

** Yusef is played by Creator/SimonKassianides, who later became famous for playing ComicBook/{{HYDRA}} operative Sunil Bakshi on ''Series/AgentsOfSHIELD''. So yeah, he went from working for Quantum to working for HYDRA.
** Felix's handler Gregg Beam is played by Creator/DavidHarbour, who would go on to become [[Series/StrangerThings Jim Hopper]], [[Film/Hellboy2019 Reboot!Hellboy]], and [[Film/BlackWidow2021 Red Guardian]].
** Guy Haines is played by Paul Ritter, who would become more famous over a decade later for playing Anatoly Dyatlov in ''Series/{{Chernobyl}}'', though some would argue that he became more famous three years after the film's release for playing Martin Goodman in ''Series/FridayNightDinner''.

** Much was said about the untrained and not-at-all intimidating-looking Greene putting up a close fight against Bond in the climax. Although it's TruthInTelevision that wild attackers can be dangerous to even elite fighters (and Greene was aided by an early surprise attack and the explosions knocking both around), it still got flak. Greene is the ''only'' Craig-era BigBad to actually fight him in hand-to-hand combat, let alone come close to killing him in combat, [[spoiler:until ''Film/NoTimeToDie'' had [[SilkHidingSteel Safin]] attacking Bond and poisoning him -- 007 still gets the upper hand and defeats him, but then prefers to die]].

** Guy Haines is played by Paul Ritter, who would become more famous over a decade later for playing Anatoly Dyatlov in ''Series/{{Chernobyl}}''.

* NeverLiveItDown: For most Bond fans, it is best remembered for having failed to live up to the high expectations set by ''Casino Royale'', with particular points of contenting going towards the editing, the villains, uninteresting plot, and excessive action scenes.