Todd McCarthy: 'Quantum' features Bourne-esque take on spy -- Quantum of Solace" is the first James Bond film in which I didn't for one moment want to be Bond. This is not a good sign. The key to Bond, dating back to his first appearance as Ian Fleming's imaginary self-projection in the 1950s and especially to the arrival of Sean Connery's still-potent incarnation in the early 1960s, is that he's an ultimate male fantasy figure, an impudent, self-possessed, worldly man of action who is a ...