Permission for all Craig Nay-sayers to choke on their cornflakes

Rating: 10/10 (26 November 2006)

WARNING CONTAINS VERY MINOR SPOILERS (if you've seen the trailer your OK ;-) )
just seen Casino Royale.... no wrong place to start.
i am a bond fan, love the movies always have done. I don't think there has been a bad bond among the 6 of them, each actor brings something new to the role. i was gutted when the series died after Dalton. I LOVED Goldeneye. not only did it resurrect the franchise but it i classed it as one of the best bond movies out there. it had the formula perfect. but lets face it take the bond tinted glasses off the follow ups were poor at best, nothing compared with Goldeneye and certainly nowhere near the classics such as Dr No and Goldfinger. The minute Mike Myers released Austin Powers they should have realized they needed to take it in another direction to stop its death ala Dalton. 'real' spy movies like The Bourne Identity were released, again bond soldered on with the raised eyebrow tongue in cheek style, nailing the coffin lid hard down.
So onto Casino Royale and Daniel Craig. it blew me away. I hope all the effigy burning critics who where baying for Craigs blood before a single scene was shot are standing heads bowed. Bond isn't invulnerable, he doesn't have an invisible car to chase down the baddies, nor an ejection seat to shoot him to safety when he horrifically crashes his Aston Martin. he doesn't care how his drink is fixed or CGI Surf up to the target. he is a cold blooded killer. one tracked to get the job done, with anything he has close to hand. killing with gun and bare hands a real 00. he gets physically and emotionally hurt and for the first time since Dr No the its about the Story not just the man.
If you want to point out the bad points then you could say the poker scenes although realistically staged are so far fetched that the aura around the movie gets broken (sorry I'm a poker lover and you could have had just as much tension if they were playing realistic hands and bluffing with nothing instead of 'only' low full house's and flushes lol) but it is Hollywood and i guess thats what virgins to the game expect to see.
OK for the people who refuse to see it because the he has the wrong colour hair and the people who have seen it and are too stubborn to see past the wrong colour hair.
THEY-MADE-THE-RIGHT-CHOICE in Daniel Craig end of story.
oh my god he had blonde hair! oh my god he is'nt 7 foot tall and made of solid gold and doesn't breathe fire with every breath. The man can act with more then his eyebrows and he has made himself the best bond since Connery in a sum total of 144 minutes up to THAT iconic final line... in fact why am i here and not back at the cinema watching it again. Maybe Ian Flemming can stop turning in his grave now that his creation has returned to his pure cold blooded roots.