Casino Royale- Greatest Bond Film Ever! (Contains Spoilers)

Rating: 10/10 (25 November 2006)

Casino Royale, starring Daniel Craig as the best Bond ever, opened this weekend and quickly became the greatest Bond film ever. Unlike any other Flemming film, Casino gets to real hardcore intelligence. Bond has no gadgets and no ridiculous plots (giant lasers from space or plots to take over the world). Instead it cuts right to the heart of what backs terrorism, MONEY. After receiving his Double '0' status, Bond takes it upon himself to tract down a serious of terrorist plots and works his way up the ladder which eventually leads him to a major banker for terrorists money. Le Chiffre, the main villain, uses the money given to him by terrorists to fund revolutionary wars by playing the market and because of Bond, he loses horribly. Le Chiffre, an extreme mathematician, then decides to set up a high stakes poker to win all the money back. Since Bond is the best card player in the service and an excellent read on people, he is sent to bankrupt Le Chiffre at his own game. At Casino Royale, Bond is paired up with our first real Bond girl, Vesper Lynd played by Eva Green. This is where we see that Bond is the complete bad ass that all us men deep down want to be. He treats his women as tools not companion. He feels that women get in the way of work and have only one purpose and thats sex after the job is down. The fog up everything and they are better left at home so the men can get things down. This is truly the real James Bond. Unlike most of the past actors, Craig plays Bond as Ian Flemming wrote him. He's smooth when he has to be but while at work he is totally serious and focused. Craig plays Bond rough. Not just physically but mentally has well. In this film you do see Bond as a young immature agent at times acting with feeling not with intelligence. Like when he loses a hand in the game his first reaction is to just kill everyone but with the help of friends avoids that destination. I dare not to jump to deep into the story but I will once again remind everyone that watches this film that Craig is not playing Bond accordingly to past actors. He's different in the way that Bond should be played. Forget the hair and blue eyes (which I don't see how everyone can forget that both Moore and Brosnan had blue eyes). Just focus on the character and the story they're telling. This movie is not going through the motions like past Bond films. This one kicks more ass!