Quantum of Solace

I've never been that big a Bond fan, I didn't really like the character and the quickly established formula of gadgets, girls and explosions never grabbed me for some reason. I think they came across as too English and couldn't match that bit of otherworldness that American action films had.
Now though after diminishing box office returns and a more realistic style of action film the move was made to update the franchise. Casino Royale stripped out the majority of the globe trotting and went for a more straightforward story, by and large this was successful although the much hyped emotional core of the doomed girlfriend didn't quite work, it fell into the trap most movies do of saying a relationship was important because it just is instead of trying to build it up realistically.
With Quantum of Solace acting as a direct sequel to Casino Royale the story picks up with Bond kidnapping someone to be interrogated by MI6 and then…
That's the problem, the story is convoluted, boring and veers very closely to treating Bond as an English version of the Terminator. Although Daniel Craig is a good actor he's given nothing to work off, he receives a kicking, gets up, kicks back harder with seemingly no personal damage, rinse and repeat.
The attempt to humanize Bond in Casino Royale seems to have been jettisoned with the odd nod to hunting down someone related to Vespa's death as a nod to some kind of humanity, the rest of the time he's smacking people in the head.
This brings up the action scenes, I've got to say that I'm sick of epilepsy inducing editing and weird camera angles, since the beach scene in Saving Private Ryan directors have been trying to outdo each other in throwing the handheld camera around. The difference between them and Spielberg is that he knows how to put you in the middle of the action but still tell the story and not confuse you. While not as bad as the fight scenes in Batman Begins, Quantum of Solace suffers from showing the stuntmens ear rather than what's happening.
Although Marc Forster has done a couple of nice character pieces like Stranger Than Fiction and Finding Neverland, he seems to be out of his depth in this. Set pieces such as the opera sequence that should show the scope of this new evil underground organisation fall flat and when the story is as all over the place this compounds how confused the film seems.
It's a shame that something as simple as another pass at the script seems to have been jettisoned to make sure the writers strike didn't stop filming but when the film makers literally copy and paste the Euro fag villain from Casino Royale over there has to be criticism at that level of lazyness.