Personally, I prefer this Bond and as especially as he's developed more into this cold and almost merciless killer who only occasionally likes to show his nice side. The film though? I thought it was pretty awful. I thought the directing was pretty good (the best bit in my eyes, was the opening credits where James is floating through nothingness, which I thought was incredible), but I felt the script was far too weak and there was way too much action, which fucking sickened me. I know I'm missing the point of Bond here, but I can't help it (they're trying to get more serious, thus I look at it serious).
I want the whole point of bond to be destroyed and I want the next Bond film to be very heavily script-based and about darker themes, with less action. Even if that would never happen in a trillion years.
P.S. I'm also pretty pissed they turned Mathieu Almaric into the generic foreign villain. Go watch him in The Diving Bell And The Butterfly, far superior film and Quantum of Solace makes him a characterless shit.