It's not bad
Added 2/8/2010
I prefer Brosnan playing Bond. I think he's a much better actor than Craig. This movie is decent with lots of action and running. Not as good as the other Bond movies but you won't fall to sleep with this.
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Bond is back!
Added 2/6/2010
I hesitated going to see this movie at the theater. I had loved Sean Connery and Pierce Brosnan and thought it would be a disappointment with this new guy I had never heard of before. Boy, was I wrong! Daniel Craig was born to play James Bond. There is never a weak moment in this movie. It brings together all the best of what you expect from a 007 movie. I watch this DVD over and over again.
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I wasn't sure I would like a blond Bond, but I love him. This story takes you to the begining and guides you to understand how he became the Bond he is. He does most of his own stunts, much more elaborate than his predecessors, and steals the show. The follow up of Quantam of Solace completes he image of Bond. Definitely a must see.
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Back To The Beginning As Well As The Future
Added 1/30/2010
After four episodes as James Bond with varying degrees of success, Pierce Brosnan turns in his license to kill for an endorsement position with the futile John Kerry campaign. Meanwhile, the producers of James Bond movies are left with the fact that the Cold War is long gone, and they don't necessarily have a guy waiting in the wings to take over for Brosnan. Enter Daniel Craig. Exit everything that happened before now in the Bond chronology. And the result is a splendid movie, a remake of the first Bond movie from 1954, "Casino Royale."
The opening scene shows us how precisely Bond became an agent or at least an agent with 'double 0' status. This necessitates two kills on behalf of Her Majesty's Government. It is also in black and white, harkening back to another time. Bond dusts off a traitor to MI6, and the opening credits roll. These are among the least memorable opening credits in the history of James Bond movies, and the theme song itself leaves a lot to be desired. Nevertheless, the plot is set up, and it is straight out of modern-day newspapers.
A mathematician named Le Chiffre takes a truckload of cash - over $100 million to be precise - from a foreign arms dealer. He proceeds to gamble it by betting against the stock of an airline set to introduce a new addition to its fleet at the Miami airport shortly. Bond discovers this in a circuitous route that takes him first to Madagascar and then to M's apartment (sorry, no rendevous, and I think I just threw up). In the process Bond is photographed killing a bagman for the Nambutu government. Before uncovering Le Chiffre, however, Bond traces the text message from his now dead terrorist bomb maker's phone to the Bahamas, where he winds up winning an Ashton Martin in a card game with the owner of the luxury hotel where he is staying. In typical Bond fashion, he scores with the wife of the man he just beat at Texas Hold 'Em and learns that the old man is headed to Miami. Using his cell phone liberally, Bond is able to determine where his bad man is when the key is dropped off to enable the plan covert operation of Le Chiffre - to blow up the new airbus while it's sitting in the Miami airport hangar. If successful, this will plunge the airline stock that Le Chiffre has bet against and make him a very rich man. So being a Bond movie, of course, James foils the attempt and gets rid of the bomber for good measure. Well, actually he doesn't. The bomber gets rid of himself. Well, sort of. You'll have to watch it because I'm not going to give away what happens - except that another bomber is dead. And the plane is spared. And Le Chiffre has now lost the millions he borrowed from the arms dealer. Whoo boy!!
So we now send Bond to Montenegro to enter a high stakes poker game with a $10 million entry fee. Fortunately, James has this much in his bank account (this was before the recession hit) - due to a generous stipend from Her Majesty's Government. And of course James is accompanied by - surprise!! - a female chauffer who has to make the decision as to whether or not Bond gets the extra money he may need to stay in the poker game.
To make a long story short, Bond wins the poker game (not that that surprises anyone who has seen any of these movies). The bad guy gets mad and decides to extort the winnings back (also not a surprise).
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Not now, M, I'm playing cards.
Added 1/23/2010
This is the worst example ever of the Bond series. Craig just doesn't live up to the character played by Connery for 20 years (few do). Connery's Bond was always on the offensive with women; in the scene with Caterina Murino, she's in charge and the two seem almost self-conscious; at least things liven up when Eva Green arrives on the set. The movie has too many uninteresting characters and what else can they do but flip an occasional evil eye. There's too many gambling scenes that look too serious and too many close-ups of players hands, as if trying to show that damn, this game really means something. That can happen when the story is weak. There's too many close-ups of cell phones, showing messages that supposedly add to the meaningless script. It seemed that the combo of Judy Dench as "M", who should have stayed in the background more, and Craig as Bond did not really work. I was surprised this turned out to be such a poor effort since the director, Martin Campbell, also did Golen Eye (1995) which I liked. One star to qualify, one for Eva Green.
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It's not bad
Added 2/8/2010
I prefer Brosnan playing Bond. I think he's a much better actor than Craig. This movie is decent with lots of action and running. Not as good as the other Bond movies but you won't fall to sleep with this.
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Bond is back!
Added 2/6/2010
I hesitated going to see this movie at the theater. I had loved Sean Connery and Pierce Brosnan and thought it would be a disappointment with this new guy I had never heard of before. Boy, was I wrong! Daniel Craig was born to play James Bond. There is never a weak moment in this movie. It brings together all the best of what you expect from a 007 movie. I watch this DVD over and over again.
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I wasn't sure I would like a blond Bond, but I love him. This story takes you to the begining and guides you to understand how he became the Bond he is. He does most of his own stunts, much more elaborate than his predecessors, and steals the show. The follow up of Quantam of Solace completes he image of Bond. Definitely a must see.
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