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The only thing perfect in this movie is Judi Dench.
I just love these British actors who mask their enormous skill (clarity of speech, face, postures) under an easiness so deceptive. When acting Shakespeare they can be operatic allright as it is right for Baroque but when they play "normal" characters they are apparently real, everyday... But try and ask a non professional to play a "normal" part and you shall see the difference.
This first 007 after a while boasts the great novelty, Daniel Craig.
Such a novelty he is not. I loved Timothy Dalton and he was very physical, very crude too. Not that Mr Craig is a miscast: he seems an excellent actor (I know no other movie of his), he has a beautiful muscular body that the authors display throughout the film, an eastern European (Polish or Russian I should say) look to his face that is peculiar and easy to remember.
The authors tried it and in my opinion they failed: they wanted to offer the public an updated 007, very physical, gory, even crude but casting Mr Craig has been useless because they left the rest unchanged. The famous opening scenes, Bond and the bomber jumping from a crane to the other... just as improbable as similar scenes in the past Roger Moore movies were.
The situations are trite, the villains are still mono dimensional, the women are just as beautiful and just as meaningless.
And please, the dialogues?
These movies are intended for the general public, allright, but do the lines have to be idiotic? Do they have to convey the usual "Me Tarzan, you Jane" content and ethics? The only really good exchange? That of Bond tortured by Le Chiffre, but perhaps I was distracted by the sight of Mr Craig's naked body.
The authors seem to have paid a lot of attention to beauty in fact... A sign of times? Settings are beautiful as is the photograph and some actors/actresses are attractive indeed.
I loved particularly Ms Murrino and the actor (don't know his name) who plays the terrorist at the airport: both have huge beautiful eyes, beautiful looks and seem to be able to play too, had this been put to use somehow...
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I love the new portrayal of James Bond. Not all the flashy tech, not over-doing the womanizing, just a kickass guy who knows his stuff and isn't afraid to get his hands dirty. Much more realistic than previous versions, he actually gets beat up! Just love the plot line, which is something hollywood doesn't deliver as often as they used to.
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I was looking for this item in stores and could not find it anywhere. All that was available was the original DVD release, not the special collector's edition. I was happy that Amazon had it in stock.
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There was a huge amount of controversy in fandom surrounding Daniel Craig as the new James Bond, most of it negative, and mostly centered around his appearance. I've mentioned before that I'm really not a visually-oriented person, so maybe that's why such objections never made any sense to me. It's vastly more important to me that the actor is convincing in the role, and Daniel Craig fit this role in this film very well.
Of course, Casino Royale is a different sort of Bond film from the most recent ones, and substituting Daniel Craig's James Bond for Pierce Brosnan's really wouldn't have worked. Nor would Pierce Brosnan's James Bond have worked in Casino Royale.
As for those who complain that Casino Royale is mucking around with the tradition--yes, this is vastly different from Die Another Day. But this is not the first time the franchise has shifted direction. It's happened pretty much every time there's a new Bond, though it seems to have been a more gradual shift from Moore to Dalton to Brosnan. What makes it more acceptable is that Casino Royale takes place at the very beginning of the Bond mythos, so even if one doesn't view the movies as disparate entities, it's believable that when he first became 007, he was rougher around the edges than he was later.
Casino Royale shows the very beginning of James Bond--how he becomes 007. The start of the film was a dizzying blur, partially in black and white, depicting his earning that 00 status (two kills required--the first one's the hardest). It was brutal and stark, and only the distance created by the film techniques kept it from being too graphic.
There's a requisite busy action scene, with a chase scene that was so long and involved such Jackie-Chan-worthy stunts that I started laughing, earning a glare from my older son. Whoops. No, I wasn't loud. I'm not one of those people.
But then we get to the meat of the movie, with Bond against Le Chiffre, a terrorist financier who's also an inveterate gambler. Bond's mission is to join the high-stakes game and win--or rather, keep Le Chiffre from winning, bankrupting him, and forcing him to accept the government's offer. Enter Vesper Lynd, the treasury agent who comes along to ensure that Bond isn't wasting the government's money.
You can tell it's been a long time since I read the books, because I kept hearing her name as "Vespa", which made some of the jokes a little nonsensical.
It's not a spoiler to say that Bond falls in love with her and she eventually betrays him--after all, James Bond cannot have a HEA romantic ending, particularly not at this juncture, because we know from earlier films that he's single. Don't try to sort out the timelines--it'll give you a headache, particularly if you try to reconcile Judi Dench's M with Goldeneye.
All in all, an exciting film. A change in direction for the franchise, to be sure, but one that was necessary, I think, to re-energize the series. I'm looking forward to Bond-22, whatever it is.
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This is an excellent DVD to keep. The movie is excellent and the first disc in and of itself is worth the price. Not sure if the second disc with the special features are all that great unless you like seeing the old Bond girls. Still, a great dvd set with a great price!
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