Vile and violent - a sad reflection on the public's taste in the 21st century.

Rating: 1/10 (14 December 2006)

I confess to have only been able to watch the first twenty-five minutes of this movie before I walked out in disgust. If you like gratuitous violence, incomprehensible plotting, comic book characters and the full gamut of action movie clichés then Casino Royale is for you. The film has been superbly marketed and will no doubt pander brilliantly to the facile tastes of those that think that murder and mayhem is fun, and who want to suspend reality. I am sure that the film will be a huge commercial success. But I found it vile and a deeply saddening refection of what is the public's taste in the 21st Century.
Does it matter that the world's twelve-year-olds will be going in large numbers to see this trivial little film? I think that it does as at least a few of them will think that this farrago bears some resemblance to reality - I wonder how they will respond in how they live their lives? Hardly peacefully!