Was this really a James Bond movie ? I doubt it

Rating: 3/10 (22 December 2006)

I had high expectations for Casino Royale, but boy was I disappointed. Now this is from someone who seen every Bond movie there is, I loved Sean Connery and even the Timothy Dalton ones...but this isn't a Bond movie. Where is Moneypenny, Q ? Where is all the charm from the previous Bond that made Bond what he is? Casino Royale is Bond without the charm, the gadgets and the action. Instead what we get is a plug for every Sony product out there, how many times did they plug the cellphone and the laptop, what is this, a commercial ? The movie starts well but the action is very lacking, especially at the end. The scenes in the Casino drag on for way too long. And what is this, Bond doesn't even kill the baddie? Give me a break. Had this movie been made with different characters names, it would a been a generic lifeless average spy movie. This isn't Bond...
Why the need to reboot the series like Batman Begins? The past Bond movies were not even close to being a flop, so why break a winning formula? As for Daniel Craig as Bond, well I think he was okay, but he had to work with such a bad script that it's not really fair to judge him on such a poor movie.