MIT Lecture Series Committee

Rated PG-13
106 minutes

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format: 35mm

Quantum of Solace (2008)

February 2 is Registration Day - get a FREE MOVIE NIGHT for your dorm or living group by participating in the Reg Day Challenge! See below for details!

A devastating betrayal sends James Bond from Australia to Italy and South America on a mission of vengeance that pits the suave super-spy against a powerful businessman with diabolical intentions. Betrayed by Vesper, 007 (Daniel Craig) suppresses the urge to make his latest mission personal as he teams with M (Judi Dench) to interrogate Mr. White (Jesper Christensen). It soon becomes apparent that the organization behind the blackmailing of Vesper is more powerful than Bond and M had previously anticipated, and after discovering forensic evidence that links an MI6 traitor to a bank in Haiti, Bond immediately sets out to gather more intelligence.

Once in Haiti, a case of mistaken identity leads Bond into the company of the ravishing Camille (Olga Kurylenko), a dangerous beauty with her own vendetta. It's Camille who leads Bond to a ruthless businessman named Dominic Greene (Mathieu Amalric), who is soon revealed to be the mastermind of a powerful but clandestine organization. Greene is conspiring to corner the market on one of the world's most precious natural resources, and in order to make that happen he has forged a deal with an exiled general named Medrano (Joaquin Cosio). By enlisting the aid of his many associates and using his vast resources to force contacts within the CIA and the British government into bending to his will, Greene plans to overthrow the current regime of a Latin American country and hand control over to General Medrano in exchange for a parcel of land that appears barren on the surface, but actually houses a natural resource that will make Greene the most powerful man on the planet. But Bond's mission to uncover the culprit who blackmailed Vesper and prevent Dominic Greene from exerting his will on the entire world won't be easy, because now everyone from the CIA to the terrorists and even M are out to get him. [www.allmovie.com]

Revenge is a dish best served with bullets, high explosives and giant rolling flameballs. In Quantum of Solace, James Bond orders the revenge buffet, deluxe.
      -- Kyle Smith, New York Post. Read this review.

Reg Day Challenge

This spring, get a FREE MOVIE NIGHT for your dorm or living group! If more than 10% of your living group pays for admission at our Reg Day showings of Quantum of Solace then your entire group can get free admission to any movie of your choice during term.

The details: When you purchase your ticket on Monday, February 2, tell us which dorm or living group you live in. If the number of tickets purchased by residents of your living group/dorm is greater than 10% of the total number of residents, your living group/dorm can pick one movie during term (see our schedule; your choice is subject to LSC's approval) for free admission and provide us with a list of residents. Each resident will get free admission to that movie.

If you're interested in group rates on admission or refreshments for other LSC events, please contact us here.