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Casino Royale: My Review (Spoilers!!!)

Soph

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This move can fight for the Best Bond Film.

This is unlike any Bond you have ever seen before other than the Dr. No by Connery.

Craig displays the most intriguing Bond ever. This Bond/character has alot of contradictions about himself and Craig can play fight sceens believeably unlike many of the previous Bonds. He's built fot it. He's brutal, cold yet he shows depth with the witty banter, sly remarks, and love, betrayal, remorse but he still keeps within the characters in control of his emotions, calm cool and a steely hand of cold retribution. He's freaking a badass and cocky as hell. He bleeds, gets tortured and is tough as hell. He's focused on his objective at all times. He's freaking brillant.

Right up there with FRWL Goldfinger and much better than Dr. No., however it captures Connery's first 2/3 of Dr. No in general.

Opening sequence is brutal, and very real. A realistic fist fight and heads being slammed into to toilets in black and white. interlayed with his next kill in a more efficient manner.

The chase scene is truly amazing. Bond using his mind over the faster, super agile enemy. The casino play was great, the hands all completely improbable but great nonetheless. Some great one liners, but here they are justily earned, and you'll know what I mean when you see it.

Airport chase is excellent.

They do the tux thing and his final suit looks great; unlike alot of other bonds, he is also seen in more practical wear.

I never wanted to see a Brosnan Bond twice as they always dragged and became over the top and boring other than maybe goldeneye. Also, PB would never be believeable doing the hand to hand and athletic fight sequenced.

But this movie is riveting. Craig reinvents a cultural icon from a joke to one bad mf who is developing a taste for the best in life and women as short term engagements but never to be developed. M's line is nicely done by saying "Bond you don't trust anyone, do you?" "You're learning"
He even comments after being betrayed by the women he confesess to love right from the book as coldly stating, "The ***** is dead"

The torture scene is unbelieveable and Craig unexpectedly delivers some of the funniest lines during this scene, and if you are a guy, you will freaking cringe when you see this, as they don't hold anything back. It's brutal.

The last scene is the only time you hear the theme, and the classic introduction as the unknown criminal crawls towards his feet after Bond just put a high powered bullett thru his leg.

Great entertainment.
 

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Brilliant Bond film. I would rate it equal to FRWL, which prior to Casino Royale, was my favourite.

Based on one film, Craig tops all the other Bond actors. Again, he only has one film under his belt so it may be a little early to sound the trumpets, but based on this performance I think he is probably better than even Connery. I always thought Brosnan was rubbish; in a world of cold blooded killers who would fear this guy? He looks like he would be too busy moisturising to actually get blood on his hands. Moore was far too comedic (and, again, had no rough edge). As others have said, I think Dalton wanted to go the same route as Craig but was tied down by poor scripts and direction.
 

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I loved it. He was nuanced and wide-ranging but never over-the-top.

The foot chase sequence at the start is as exciting as any car chase you'll ever see.

Eva Green - well, she doesn't need to say a thing.

No "gadgets" as such in this, and only a brief car chase, but great acting and the best plot in a all the Bond films makes up for that.
 

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Q wasn't included. I'm sort of glad they left him out and didn't overload the movie with cute little spy toys.
 

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It was a so-so story, a relationship I never believed in ("your little finger"), a half hour too long, unsubtle product placements for Sony and Omega, and still it was excellent. Except he pronounced Omega "Omeega."
 

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Saw it last night. Disappointing in many ways AFAIC.

Pros: It was enjoyable to watch and the cinematography was very good; beautiful locations; construction site scene was excellent.

Cons: Call me crazy but I miss the campy Bond with all the gadgets. No Q!
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I know critics loved it and I undertstand the whole taking the franchise into a new direction, going back to the Bond roots and the spirit of the Fleming novels... yati yata... and it may be successful from a marketing standpoint but that's not what Bond is about for me. He's not just another tough guy spy. Casino Royale was too serious a movie for Bond imo - not to mention the lame love story.

Perhaps it's because I grew up with the Moore Bond and am nostalgic for the over-the-top stories and lines but Bond can't be taken too seriously in my view. He is meant to be a parody in many ways. It's the whole, there is no way anyone can do that and "oh, James!
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Bond girls" that makes him so lovable. Who wants to see another tough guy get dirty chasing bad guys? I want to see a guy save the world and get the girl without wrinkling his shirt. Fantasizing about the superhuman Bond persona is what it's about, not another quasi-realistic hero.

Just my $.02. I am sure most of you disagree as I've read.
 

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they really need to stop wrecking those beautiful cars. i almost bawled when they destroyed the aston...
 

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