Advantages: Tense, fast paced, engaging action Disadvantages: Poker scenes may bore some
CasinoRoyale marks Daniel Craig's first outing as 007, James Bond. In it he must stop Le Chiffre, a banker to the world's terrorist organizations, from winning a high-stakes poker tournament at CasinoRoyale in Montenegro.
I was one of those people who was originally skeptical about Craig's casting. I grew up with Pierce Brosnan as Bond and I didn't know if I could accept someone else in that role. Sufficed to say, I needn't have worried.
Craig is a different kind of Bond, he's not as outwardly flashy as Brosnan and he's more quietly confident. But the style, the attitude and the finesse of his Bond is reminiscent of Sean Connery, you could say he is more of the thinking mans bond.
As for the film, it's exciting, well acted, tense and has a great story too. Bond and Vespa have a great chemistry together, as do Bond with 'M ...
Bond a more stronger character, it was more about physicality and mind games, using your brain to get one step ahead, rather than having a car with rocket launchers, or F16 fighter planes. Bond was more original, old school for me it was like a secret agent of the 1960's, and he had that sort of look to him. Most people may have been disappointed with the lack of technology and gadgets used, but that's just something you will have to get over. I suppose Bonds character is so old school because they intended on CasinoRoyale being the first Bond film. I loved the fight scenes, the movement and fast pace of it just made you stand back and applaud it. The opening fight and chase scene was something that I had never seen in a Bond film before, it was actually realistic.
Like most Bond films, humour has to be played in occasionally to lighten ...
The main figure James Bond; Daniel Craig (already known for action films Tomb Raider' (2001, Simon West) and Layer Cake' (2004, Matthew Vaughn) and the future creations His Dark Materials' (2007, Chris Weitz) which I am really looking forward to, is represented throughout the film as an inimitable agent. Craig is represented as a contrast to the other Bonds because he is just commencing work for MI6, whereas the others were conveyed as developed agents with years of experience. Craig in CasinoRoyale' starts off by having to earn his Double-0 status, he is later represented as vulnerable, which although we have had insights to the characters emotional side in the series; in Tomorrow Never Dies' (1997, Roger Spottiswoode) one close up angle of Brosnan sitting on the beach thinking demonstrates that he cannot control his feelings ...
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