8 Movies That Everyone Turned Against On A Second Viewing

3. Quantum of Solace

The success of Martin Campbell's brilliant Casino Royale brought James Bond back to popularity after the dismal Die Another Die, which marked the last appearance of Pierce Brosnan as Ian Fleming's iconic spy. With Daniel Craig in the role, Casino Royale took the franchise away from its cheesy, quip-a-minute roots, and transformed it into something more akin to a Jason Bourne film. With the character freshly revitalised, then, the long-awaited follow-up, Quantum of Solace, under the guidance of director Marc Forster, hit cinemas is 2008. And it was good, wasn't it? Or, at least, everyone seemed to accept that it was at least a solid entry in the Bond canon, even if it did seem more like an epilogue to Casino Royale. It wasn't as good as Casino Royale, of course, but it was... it was fine, wasn't it? Good action and that. Yeah, fine. It wasn't until months later, though - presumably when folk had seen it again - that many Quantum of Solace fans realised that this chapter had actually been a fairly unremarkable one by Royale's standards, and soon enough everyone was regarding it as rather lackluster effort. It's strange to see Quantum of Solace as a separate Bond movie, viewed outside the context of Casino Royale, because the two are so closely related - and to a fault. As a result, it really was hard to tell what Quantum of Solace actually was the first time you sat down to watch it... in this case, it's really no surprise that a second exposure to this instalment allowed movie-goers to see that there wasn't much to it at all. For a movie that everyone seemed fairly pleased with at first, then, it's interesting to see that - nowadays - it's considered to be one of the worst Bond movies.