Discontinuity, Mr Bond?

Rating: 7/10 (10 December 2006)

So Casino Royale is okay, but the little things that are wrong detract from the overall Bondness of the pic. The opening credits are wrong-- no women in silhouette dancing around, the Bond Himself coming in and out of view-- what is this stuff? The card game? Hello? This isn't the sort of card game Bond plays-- it's Americanized for no good reason. One of the appeals of Bond is that he's a Brit, and with the playing field everywhere *but* America (save for a short action sequence in Miami, which one could argue isn't really America at all...) the dumbing down is insulting. Plotwise, there's no clue what happens to the evil bimbette-- a lose end that will bother film goers once they are driving home and reflecting on the movie. I don't think Albert would be happy with this one.