6.8

Quantum of Solace

2007, UK, USA

• Actors: Daniel Craig, Olga Kurylenko, Mathieu Amalric, Judi Dench, Giancarlo Giannini, Gemma Arterton, Jeffrey Wright, David Harbour, Jesper Christensen, Anatole Taubman, Rory Kinnear, Tim Pigott-Smith, Joaquín Cosio, Fernando Guillén Cuervo, Jesús Ochoa, Lucrezia Lante della Rovere, Glenn Foster, Paul Ritter, Simon Kassianides, Stana Katic, Neil Jackson, Oona Chaplin, Brendan O'Hea, Rufus Wright, Kari Patrice Coley, Sarah Hadland, Jake Seal, Peñarandam Felix, Emiliano Valdés, Elizabeth Arciniega
• Genre: Action, Adventure, Thriller
• Director(s): Marc Forster
• Available languages:
  • English English.

Is there solace in revenge? Bond and "M" sniff a shadowy international network of power and corruption reaping billions. As Bond pursues the agents of an assassination attempt on "M," all roads lead to Dominic Greene, a world-renowned developer of green technology. Greene, a nasty piece of work, is intent on securing a barren area of Bolivia in exchange for assisting a strongman stage a coup there. The CIA looks the other way, and only Bond, with help from a retired spy and from a mysterious beauty, stands in Greene's way. "M" wonders if she can trust Bond, or if vengeance possesses him. Beyond that, can anyone drawn to Bond live to tell the tale?

  4.2

Knock Off

1998, Aruba, Hong Kong, USA

• Actors: Jean-Claude Van Damme, Rob Schneider, Lela Rochon, Paul Sorvino, Carman Lee, Wyman Wong, Glen Chin, Michael Wong, Moses Chan, Lynne Langdon, Ray Nicholas, Jeff Wolfe, Michael Miller, Steve Brettingham, Mark Houghton, Peter Nelson, Kim Penn, Thomas Hudak, Steve Nation, Rose Librizzi, Noel Rands, Dennis Chan, William Chow, Stuart Kavanagh, Noorie Razack, Heung Hoi, Simon Cheung, Leslie Cheung, Matt Grant, Nyree Hansen
• Genre: Action, Thriller
• Director(s): Hark Tsui
• Available languages:
  • English English.

A Hong Kong fashion designer (Jean Claude Van Damme, if you can believe that billing) who had previously been involved in knock offs of major label merchandise, such as "Pumma" running shoes, attempts to go straight with the help of his new partner (Rob Schneider), who is secretly an undercover CIA agent involved in an investigation of the black market. Their main product, jeans, is involved in the knock offs, which brings a representative (Lela Rochon) of the American company to investigate. Paul Sorvino also appears as the head of the CIA operation in Hong Kong. However, just as Schneider is not as he initially seems, everyone in the film switches roles by film's end.