this rebirth was necessary

Rating: 8/10 (23 November 2006)

Last year, when Daniel Craig has won the race of becoming the new Bond, a huge campaign has been started with the intention just to discredit Craig. People said he's blonde, people said he's a mollycoddle, they created internet forums and impended to boycott "Casino Royale".
Let's see what has happened in the meantime. First Sir Sean Connery himself stated to believe, Daniel Craig could become one of the best James Bond performers ever. Now the movie has been released in the movie theaters, already with a lot of success. Daniel Craig is still blonde, but he's everything else then a mollycoddle. He's as muscular as Arnie Schwarzenegger in his best times and can suffer as much pain as Bruce "McLane" Willis in his legendary Die Hard performances.
I've read some comments from Bond Fans, who still were extremely disappointed. They're missing all the gadgets, and they miss Q and Moneypenny, everything they got used to during the last 40 years or even more. Come on guys, be honest. All these things started to bore a lot of viewers. Always these ridiculous exploding pencils, these watches with integrated fax station and whatsoever, it was cool in the 60s, 70s and 80s, and maybe, with a lot of good will, it has still been cool in the middle of 90s, but after Goldeneye it started to annoy me, and surely it also annoyed many more of us. Also these jingoistic jokes, these will-less babes, the time has come to do something to rescue James Bond. Otherwise the end of the great Bond era could have been near.
So things have been changed. No funny gadgets, but real and tough action, no babes any more, but one fantastic, attractive, drop-dead gorgeous and intelligent Bond girl, no fights without pain, no desperadoes who can destroy the world by clicking one switch, but therefore a real bad and evil guy.
This movie has become the successful rebirth of a legend, which was about to die off. We all should be glad about this development.
And even people, who just want to watch an entertaining good movie: go to see Casino Royale, it's worth it......