Finally! Finally James Bond is no longer the advertisement prop with ridiculous stunts and pointless dialogues, surrounded by brainless female flesh.
This is a new Bond, a Bond Noir, and I loved every minute (inch! Ouch!) of it!!
Daniel Craig exceeds my highest Expectations. He is not beautiful, but unbelievable masculine. Vibrant, breathtaking, lovely, funny. Pokerface, Killer, anything you could wish for. Killing his opponents is no longer a clean, pleasant business for Bond, but a messy, violent action, revealing blood, sweat and tears both on the side of the victim as well as the killer.
Craig's new Bond is also a very raw male, with a stunning (s-t-u-n-n-i-n-g) physical presence on the screen. But he is also a smart person with lively, witty dialogues to M and the Bondgirls. Sorry, but I cannot remember talking him too much to the male characters. Does he? Before I get to the girls, let me share this observation: It takes a long time to hear him speak more than snappy little phrases. And by the time he finally does open his mouth (meeting Vesper Lynd on the train), the tension that accumulates until we actually hear him talk is almost unbearable. Just great.
Eva Green is a beautiful Bondgirl, of course. But she is also funny, smart, and cautious. And a bookkeeper, sure, and even likeable. But you want to kill her nonetheless to replace her and share a suite with James Bond at the Casino hotel.
The spiralling action sequences will surprise you and blow you away.
Of course, there is also some ridiculous Bond-stuff (defibrillator?), but it's the to-laugh-with kind, not the to-laugh-at kind.
So, overall, this is the Bond movie that fits perfectly in our time, being dark, cynical, funny and alive. I cannot wait to see it again.
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Casino Royale, USA, UK, Czech Republic 2006.
Director: Martin Campbell
With Daniel Craig, Eva Green, Judi Dench,
Mads Mikkelsen...
Produced by
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM)
Columbia Pictures
Eon Productions Ltd. (as "Albert R. Broccoli's Eon Productions Limited")
Danjaq (as "Danjaq LLC")
Stillking Films
United Artists
Runtime 144 mins.
more:
 IMDb.
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