Daniel Craig is Welcome to the Bond Franchise!

Rating: 9/10 (25 November 2006)

Wow! I just saw Casino Royale today, and I believe it did the bond name much justice. The detailed review follows.
Plot: 6 -- The reason I did not give it a better score is due to the fact that I could hardly understand the plot. I gathered that there was a terrorist group, and to shut them down Bond had to win a bunch of money in a huge game of poker with the head honcho. Anything deeper than that was not explained very well to my liking. Therefore, the score is based on what I picked up.
Special FX: 9 -- Almost everything in the movie was believable. Explosions, death sequences, weaponry, it was all realistic. The part that brought a ten to a nine was when Bond stayed under water for about five minutes. He had already exerted his body to a point that he should have passed out, so when he stayed under water trying to break into a locked elevator just wasn't buyable at all, no matter what the reason was that he went under for.
Bond Girls: 10 -- Yowza!!! Best i've seen in any Bond movie.
Scenery: 9 -- Excellent, but TWINE beat it out. Moreover, there were no snowy mountain scenes with would have been a plus.
Bond: 9 -- Perfect for the job, just not as good as pierce brosnan in Goldeneye or Tomorrow Never Dies.