"Casino Royale" was a big hit because Daniel Craig gave us a grittier gravitas laden Bond. I was really caught off guard because I wasn't expecting to like the movie that much. I really liked the new approach of the movie because it gave us a less campy Bond.
Unfortunately, the success of the first movie raised my expectations for "Quantum of Solace", the first true sequel in the history of the James Bond movies. Ironically, the movie's ultimate downfall was due to its sequel nature.
Generally, most sequels fall victim to the same problems: bigger budgets equate to bigger stunts/settings, but at the expense of story. "QoS" definitely gave us much more eye-candy than "CR" in the way of elaborate stunt sequences and beautiful surroundings, but the story was flat and the main villain extremely boring. In fact, the plot development pretty much felt like placeholders between the back-to-back action sequences.
"Qos" isn't a bad movie, but it's not nearly as great as "CR" was. It feels more like an epilogue tagged on to the end of the first movie to tie up loose ends.
Daniel Craig is signed on for 2 more movies, so there's still hope that the next ones will be worthy successors to "CR".
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