Good, but not that good!

Rating: 6/10 (26 November 2006)

What are the boys at 007 HQ thinking? I AM ACTUALLY PAINED IN SAYING THIS, but yesterday I made my way to the cinema to see possibly THE most anticipated Bond movie ever, the movie that starts it all, and what did I get?...I got a love story, thats what I got. They go overboard with the mush between Bond and Vesper and I think that most of us got the idea that Bond was smitten with her, pretty much from the moment they met. The iris logo at the beginning looks good, but if you are gonna fiddle with something at least put it where it should be! On a more positive note though Daniel Craig's Bond is excellent and certainly better than Connery's, though he lacks the wit of his predecessors. Eva Green makes an amazing and moody looking Vesper, while Mickleson's Le'Chiffre is one of the sliest bad guy's yet. All in all Casino Royale is a good-ish movie. But I hope that the guys at Columbia take notice and return to formula for the next one, or they will be risking the franchise and turning a generation spanning series of movies into JUST RUN OF THE MILL action flicks.