It may have zero dialogue, an impenetrable plot and a man who is James Bond in name alone, but people love Quantum Of Solace.

Quantum Of Solace isn’t just the number one movie at the weekend box office this week. In fact, Quantum Of Solace is the biggest James Bond movie ever to open at the US weekend box office, taking $70 million in the process. And that proves one thing about Quantum Of Solace above anything else – people really, really like the Bourne movies.

But, hey, Quantum Of Solace features a James Bond who’s dispensed with the wit, style and panache that we’re used to seeing to become a scowling robot whose job mainly seems to involve driving speedboats through explosions and punching Frenchmen. And that’s popular in America. Who knew?

So Quantum Of Solace is the number one movie at the weekend box office. That’s not a surprise – it was just about the only movie opening this weekend, and people don’t hate themselves enough to go and see Saw V again – but was is a surprise is how Quantum Of Solace was released.

Aside from maybe Japan, America was the last country to see Quantum Of Solace. It’s been out in the rest of the world for weeks. And given its huge weekend box office opening, maybe other movies will start to follow this formula too. Oh, OK, this is just wishful thinking on our part – we want to see the Jennifer Aniston movie about the funny dog before anyone else, that’s all. But can you blame us? It’s a funny dog! Ha ha! Dogs are funny. Here’s the weekend box office top five…

1 - Quantum Of Solace (You know what offended us most about Quantum Of Solace? Not the unrecognisable James Bond. Not the lack of witty dialogue. Not the rubbish baddie. What offended us most was the lack of staggeringly obvious product placement in it. Come on, this is James Bond movie – there are supposed to be 400 close-ups of every single product Sony has ever made flashing up every couple of seconds. Haven’t any of these people watched Die Another Day?) $70,400,000

2 - Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa (As well as being a successful animated movie, Escape 2 Africa is also the name of the secret operation that Zahara Jolie-Pitt and Madonna‘s adopted son plan to put into action on the day of their respective 16th birthdays) $36,130,000

3 - Role Models (A film where some children look to Seann William Scott as a role model and end up spelling their names in annoyingly eccentric ways and starring in rubbishy, quickly-forgotten sci-fi comedy movies starring David Duchovny) $11,710,000

4 - High School Musical 3 (See, naked Cheetah Girl? All this could be yours if only you decide to stop being such a weed and sanction the release of those photos of you with your arse out) $5,879,000

5 - Changeling (Proof that Angelina Jolie hates you: last week she announced that she was quitting acting when,  as we all know, the world would be a much better place if she decided it about a year ago before she decided to make Changeling) $4,247,000

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