Worthy heir to the Bond franchise

Rating: 7/10 (28 March 2007)

Casino Royale with the new James Bond (Daniel Craig) starts with an exhilarating chase scene in an African-port construction site. Bond and his prey dance about the cranes and building columns like Spidermen or the swordsfolk of Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon.
If you're afraid of heights, you may want to avoid these first full 15 minutes of death-defying jumps and rumbles on high steel. The camera pans out over the ocean with these tiny men in the foreground shinnying up greasy cables, surrounded by empty space. I felt twinges of vertigo combined with fear of falling.
Craig is the most physical Bond we've seen, and the most capable of tough-man-competition-like violence...
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Brian Wright Copyright 2007