Yesterday, the teaser trailer for the 22nd Bond film, Quantum of Solace, broke, and, to be blunt, it’s bloody brilliant. Bond films have a long tradition of fantastic trailers, showcasing the requisite thrills and spills, evil villains and beautiful women that make Bond the institution it so rightly is, and this one doesn’t disappoint. Without going too much into the film’s plot, the teaser gives away just enough of the murky, complex world Bond is about to be thrown into. The trailer naturally shows snippets of bucket loads of action sequences, each of which consistent with the more realistic skirmishes we were treated to last time out. Plenty of familiar faces are back too, with Judi Dench seemingly having been given a meaty role from the airtime her voice gets during the sub two minutes on display here. Also making a welcome return is Felix Leiter, I for one hoping he gets a big enough role to allow the excellent Jeffrey Wright to make an impact. Then there are the Bond girls. Not too much screen time in this teaser but the glimpses of Gemma Arterton were still enough to get me going. She is, quite simply, stunning.
