Very Disappointing

Rating: 7/10 (4 January 2007)

James Bond, a name the is phenomenally well known to so many people. The bond franchise has had its up an downs with regards to the films ranging from the very good ones to the truly awful ones. When I heard that Casino Royale was in production I was very pleased as it was one of the better bond books written by Flemming, I was seriously looking forward to the film, I went to the Cinema, watched it, couldn't believe what I thought so I went to see it again the next day, it was awful!!!!!! I will break down why I think it was awful in to categories.
1) The Story  As bonds go this one had by far the weakest storyline of them all. There was no point to it, there was no ultimate goal for bond, there was no really good bad guy there was just a mish mash of poorly conceived story sewn together into a very flimsy finished product. Martin Cambell obviously had bigger things on his mind when he made this 2) The Stunts- Just pathetic randomly placed awful 'just for the hell of it' stunts. The main stunts include a ridiculas chase for one man which involves jumping up solid walls at least 8ft high, blowing up buildings and killing innocent people to get to one unimportant man. This is a sign of weak directing, stunts for no reason just to show off special effects 3) The bond girl- Oh my lord she is awful! She can't act and is awful looking! I think if you pull a random member of the public off the street they could act better. Just awful, AWFUL!
All in all avoid this film like the plague! Its that bad!