Quantum of Solace gets a cooler gun barrel opening in a new fan-made edit. Daniel Craig’s James Bond returned for his second adventure in the follow-up film to 2006’s Casino Royale.

The first Craig Bond effort was of course the film that revived the secret agent series after it had begun stagnating creatively during the Pierce Brosnan era. Unfortunately the second Craig-starring Bond film largely failed to fulfill the promise of the first, and many fans now consider Quantum of Solace the weakest of the Craig-era Bond films. Two who disagree with all the Quantum of Solace bashing however are Bond producers Barbara Broccoli and Michael G. Wilson, who recently defended the film, saying its revenge story was actually key to developing the character of Bond.

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Fixing everything wrong with Quantum of Solace may not be possible but one fan recently made a small improvement to the oft-denigrated Bond series entry. In a new video edit, YouTube user brightslash created a much cooler gun barrel opening for the film using a shot of Craig’s Bond taking down one of the movie’s bad guys. See the clip in the space below:

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The classic gun barrel opening has of course been a signature of the Bond series since the very beginning and has remained largely the same over the years outside of improved graphics. In the new Quantum of Solace opening, Craig battles M’s traitorous bodyguard Mitchell and takes him down with one shot (the scene is actually the culmination of a much longer action sequence). In the fan-edit, Bond’s kill shot becomes the actual gun barrel scene, which of course is a departure from most Bond films which do not actually incorporate the gun barrel moment into the story.

This new fan-made clip is indeed a fine example of a small idea that makes for a great moment. Creator brightslash noticed that the shot of a battered Bond taking down Mitchell would make for a perfect gun barrel shot. So they went ahead and made that happen. Such fan creativity is of course an important part of the on-going dialogue between those who create content and those who consume it, making for a much more dynamic relationship between creator and audience. This cool new gun barrel opening may not actually fix most of what is wrong with Quantum of Solace, but it does at least make for a fun little clip that celebrates Bond and Craig while paying homage to a Bond staple that seemingly will never vanish from screens as long as the 007 series continues.

Source: brightslash/YouTube

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Dan Zinski is a freelance writer currently contributing to Screen Rant on a regular basis. His previous endeavors include writing on sports, general pop culture, celebrity gossip and various other forms of mindless distraction. To date he has left approximately 100 unfinished screenplays in his wake, the majority of which have thankfully been deleted entirely from our plane of existence. He currently resides wherever his head happens to lie. His hobbies include eating Doritos, playing Atari games, avoiding eye contact and drinking excessive amounts of coffee. His favorite actors include Greta Garbo, Humphrey Bogart, Robert Mitchum, Cate Blanchett, Groucho Marx and Richard Burton. His all-time favorite movie critics are Pauline Kael, Manny Farber and of course himself. He regards Rogue One as one of history’s great travesties.

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