Easily my favorite....

Rating: 8/10 (27 November 2006)

I am not the biggest fan of Bond movies. They have always been a bit silly to me and over the years I have seen them all but get most of them confused with each other. For those of you in the same boat as me, those that always thought the movies were a bit too silly to take as a serious action movie, this is the 007 movie for you. Everyone has mentioned the grittiness of the movie and the performances ad-nausea(sp?) so I will just skip ahead to my main opinion and leave it at this: As an action movie fan that never loved 007 movies this movie kicks plenty of ass without crossing over into that Bad Boys 2, Die Hard 3 arena of the absurd.
First Blood, Terminator 2, Die hard... these are the types of action movies I have always loved and Casino Royal will look nice on the DVD shelf right next to them.
(The movie could have been trimmed by about 20 minutes, hence 8/10.)