Not A Bond Movie Anyone Should Recommend...

Rating: 3/10 (17 December 2006)

I Have To Begin And Say That The Movie Is Fair Entertainment, And Although Many Doubted Craigs Skills Before Entering The Role, I Had Confidence That He Will Perform Well Cause Frankly I Just Didn't Like Brosnan As Bond! Brosnan Reminds Me Of A Sleeky Salesman And Not Of A Secret Agent. But After Watching The Movie I Have To Say That, I Was Rather Disappointed With Craig, He Just Doesn't Have What It Takes To Be Bond, He Is To Crude, To Tough, A Person That Prefers Brawns Over Brains. A Character Without Charm, Sense Of Houmour Things That Were Natural With Connery,Moore Etc Just Like Dalton I Have A Feeling That Craig Wont Make It To The Third Movie, Although Frankly Speaking I Think That Dalton Was A Fine Bond. About The Movie Itself, What Disappointed Me The Most Was That I Got A Feeling That The Producers Did Their Best To Save Money On It!! Or On The Other Hand Weren't Wise And Spent It All In A Wrong Way. They Wanted Minimum Investment Maximum Profit. To Explain Myself: In The Movie Itself There Are No Gadgets At All!! No Unusual Spectacular Innovations We Are So Used To From All Bond Movies, Instead There Is Lots Of Lets Call It, Street Fighting, Bond Just Beats Up And Gets Beaten Up To Many Times During The Movie, On Cranes, Inside A Hotel, At A Falling Apart Building In Venice, No Brains Are Used By Bond To Get Out Of The Tough Situations He Encouters But Mostly Violence. Another Thing Most Of Secnes Or Should I Say Chases Are Rather Lame, For Example The Chase With The Special Aston Martin DBS Which Was Made Specially By Aston Martin Is Really Short And Useless, The Car Crashes In Less Than 20 Seconds, Again You End Up With A Feeling That Someone Was Short Of Imagination Or Short Of Money. The Chase At The International Airport Of Miami Is More Exciting But Again Not Something You Would Expect From A Bond Movie, And It Is Something You'll Have Seen A Million Times In Action Movies. There Is Another Big Problem With The Movie Was: Commercials In The Movie, Just One Example Out Of Many They Show Various Types Of Cel Phones During The Movie, Every Few Minutes!! And Whats Horrible Is The Crazy Amount Of The Sms Messages That Beeped Through The Movie Between The Actors, Rather Disgusting Honestly. The Movies Name Is Casino Royale But That Doesn't Mean That The Director And The Editors Have To Show Us A Bunch Of People Sitting On A Table Playing Poker In A Total Unrealistic Way, Which By The Way Makes It Boring To Watch, In All For Around 35 Minutes Of The Movies Time. To Summerise Things: I've Seen All Bond Movies At least 3 Times, So When I Say It Just Wasn't Good I Can Compare It In My Mind To Each And Every Movie, Each And Every Bit From Every Movie, When I Go To See A Bond Movie I Want A Fantasy World As Some Hav Written, A Fantasy World That Include All The Things You'll Find In Bond Movies, Things That Don't Appear In Other Action Movies, Lets Call It Trade Marks Of Bond Movies, And All Of Those Trade Marks Have Just Gone. 1. Craig Is A Good Actor But Doesn't Fit The Role. 2. No Q/R, Branches, No Moneypenny. 3. No Gadgets. 4. Almost No Beautiful Women, The Main Bond Girl Is Pretty, But Most Of Us Wont Remember A Second After The Movie How She Looked Like. 5. To Many Holes In The Plot, And The End Of The Movie Is Just Messy And Unreliable. * Just Left With A Feeling That The Directors, And Producers Wanted To Rap Up Things As Quick As Possible And Send It To The PR To Sell Us This Movie. To Bad That Some Cinema Critics Bought It, But That Also Tells You'll Not To Pay To Much Attention To Critics. 3/10