As I mentioned in my Casino Royale post, I like to think of this as a continuation of that film rather than a true sequel.Picking up moments after the end credits of Casino Royale, Bond (Daniel Craig) has finally laid hands on Mr. White (Jesper Christensen), the man responsible for Vesper's death, and turns him over to M (Judi Dench). Unfortunately, Mr. White's organization has people in every echelon of government, including MI6, and a shootout ensues. Bond gets a little trigger-happy and then they basically have to start from scratch. However, they trace some marked bills from the first movie to Haiti. Bond kills another dude and meets Camille (Olga Kurylenko), a woman attached to shady environmental businessman Dominic Greene (Mathieu Amalric). Greene belongs to the same organization as Mr. White and is starting a new business venture in Bolivia for deposed dictator General Medrano (Joaquin Cosio). Meanwhile, M is getting some heat from above about her rogue agent 007 and after yet another person ends up dead at the opera, she puts the brakes on and sends embassy lackey Ms. Fields (Gemma Aterton) to send Bond packing. This does not work out well for anyone. Bond calls out his buddy Mathis (Giancarlo Giannini) to help him figure out what Greene is really after in Bolivia.
The movie really took pains to try and have some sort of subtext about alternate energy and the water crisis and other things but really only managed to make fuel cells look dangerously unstable. Whether that was the intention or not is for someone else to decide. Greene is one of the sleaziest villains in the entire Bond canon. The word that perfectly describes him is oleaginous, which just means oily but in the most pretentious way possible. He practically leaves a slime trail through every scene. I think it was genius to have that walking Deepwater Horizon be the head of an environmentally friendly front company. He's probably my favorite person in the whole movie.
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