I finally got around to watching Casino Royale a few days ago, having read and heard such rave reviews of both it and the ‘new Bond’ Daniel Craig, who I’d seen and liked in various television programmes. Now, I know how everyone is saying how good this film is, how Craig is the best Bond…
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Daniel Craig is miscast as Bond, and Casino Royale is a deeply flawed film.
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www.dvdtalk.com Having spent a considerable amount of time over the years thinking and writing about the Bond legend, I don’t mind admitting that I’ve had a devil of a time since this past November, trying to figure out exactly where Daniel Craig and Casino Royale fit into the almost mythical, iconic James Bond canon. Watching…
CASINO ROYALE (or: A Bond movie that ISN’T a Bond movie
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A strange thing happens at the end of this torture scene which I won’t reveal to you, just in case you choose to see this movie. It starts a major tilting of the plot, helps to set the love story in motion and begins a downward spiral of the movie’s entire internal logic. Trust me,…
“Casino Royale”: An Obituary for The James Bond Film Franchise
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Daniel Craig (Bond). Craig’s characterization of Bond is charmless, worthless, and disturbingly nihilistic. At one point in the script, Craig’s Bond responds to a question with “Do I look like I give a damn?” The answer in “Casino Royale” is overwhelmingly NO. Why on earth, then, should the audience care about him? At another point,…
Bond is now played as what Britons would call a yobbo
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Daniel Craig is no gentleman at all, only a half-civilized, arriviste thug, straight out of London gangland, if not Borstal itself. His motivation to rise in the ranks of MI6 to the point of becoming that organization’s most conspicuous and short-lived species of cannon fodder seems perfectly mysterious. But it was depressing to see, fifty…
Royale Flush? More Like a Pair of Deuces
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Pros relationship between Bond and M Cons writing, violence and gore instead of cleverness, edgy and dark Bond, Felix Leiter The Bottom Line I wanted to like Casino Royale, but unfortunately the movie didn’t provide much to like. Special thanks to “Skywalker” Click Here To Discuss This In Our Forum Royale Flush? More Like a…
Bland. James Bland.
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I hate to buck the trend of those critics who are hailing the new James Bond film, Casino Royale, as a return to form and reinvention of the superhero spy franchise, but I found the film, while technically proficient, overlong and underwhelming. I’m personally disappointed too, being old enough to remember when a new James…
Verdict on Casino Royale.
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The Zolly Becker Show #24 A refreshingly honest review from a life long Bond fan, who wanted to like Craig in the role. After watching the film twice he made this cutting commentary. Warning language used may be offensive to some. Zolly gives the official verdict on Casino Royale
A Royal Pain
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The thing that makes this film dumb is that it’s set in present day and Judi Dench once again stars as M, yet it follows Bond from his early days as he learns how to be 007. So essentially, the filmmakers are jettisoning the old Bond and recreating a new Bond so that they can…
Passion of the Bond
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Now, in “Casino Royale,” the thuggish-looking British actor Daniel Craig (the blond Mossad agent in Steven Spielberg’s “Munich”) plays Bond as a humorless brute with a flat, classless Estuary English accent, and the critics (other than this one) are going wild. Bond is supposed to be tall, dark, and handsome, but Craig is none of…
