The name's Bond. James Bond.

Rating: 10/10 (7 February 2007)

Don't judge a book by it's cover. A famous saying that I think makes it point here. From all the "Bond Fans" who had not yet seen Daniel Craig act had been calling him a mistake. I myself, a fan of the novels and the series used to think so until I saw Layer Cake. His movements and acting were all like Sean Connery. And I think we can expect more from Mr. Craig.
The film starts off with Bond's first two kills. It is probably the best shot, and best written beginning of a Bond film. As well as the best opening titles. Afterwords we view the beginning of the story. In it we learn of the beginning of SPECTRE with LeChiffre as the banker who is in charge of all the money the organization receives and pays for devices and sells them. Bond intervenes and tries to stop all of this by winning a poker tournament at the Casino Royale, where LeChiffre will be playing to get more money by using the SPECTRE account. (Of course there's more to the story. With the help of the beautiful Vesper Lynd he tries to stop Lechiffre from having government financed terrorism.
All elements of a great Bond film are in this movie, and all the actors are good. We get explanations for all of Bond's trademarks and we see some good action as well. The acting is superb as well as the directing. Daniel Craig is the closest thing to Bond that I have seen since I read the novels.
Casino Royale 10/10