Eamonn Fitzgerald's Rainy Day

Regular Rainy Day commentator hans ze beeman offers this excellent observation on yesterday's post in which we alleged that the new James Bond film, Quantum of Solace, errs on the PC side:

"I'm split on this. On one hand, you're right, cowardice is a sin, on the other hand, I don't want the Bond movies to become chickenhawk porn. I basically do not subscribe to the idea that Bond necessarily must have topicality; most Bond movies consisted of fights against fantasy foes, of course usually of German descent, and reality only sunk in from afar. Realism usually was never the strength of the Bond series (remember the Superman jump in Golden Eye?).

That's also why I regard Daniel Craig as the worst Bond yet, and the series has become too dark and serious for my taste. I much prefer Bourne, which is the original and not the clone these days."

Bourne, that sexless, humourless, thrilling, killing machine, is indeed the threat. But instead of trying to out-Bourne Bourne, Solace director Marc Forster should have tried to out-Bond Bourne. What we get is neither Bourne nor Bond and that's the source of our disappointment.