The coolest Bond ever to reach the screen!

Rating: 10/10 (27 November 2006)

First, Daniel Craig has started a revolution of cool. He's the ideal James Bond that everyone's's been looking for. Sean Connery, Roger Moore, George Lasenbry, Timothy Dalton, Pierce Brosnan... all to "toung and cheek", arguably. This new guy brings the Bond look, walk, and technique to a whole new level. He's got a roughed up look that all the others have lacked; a look that means business. Keeping the occasional wise crack and sexual innuendos, he makes everything more intense and more suspenseful. He makes James Bond seem more like a tough guy chick-magnet rather than the past actors who have portrayed Bond as a playboy with a gun. Casino Royal is designed to set the plot for all the past Bond flicks along with those to come, except with a different tone. This film has purposefully included fewer toys, gadgets, and women to make it more hard-core. The villain is finally scary. The plot is finally something more than pointless. The Bond is finally cool. The writers did a great job of designing a way to show why James Bond never gets married or forms any kind of relationship in order to portray him as less of a playboy, I believe. The cinematography is top notch, along with the art direction and visual effects. The opening fight scene is the best one ever BY FAR. All in all, Casino Royal is the best Bond movie in years if not the best one ever.