Falsely advertised as an action movie.

Rating: 1/10 (18 September 2008)

If I ever need a movie to point to that did every last thing that make action movies terrible, it is now Casino Royale. It opens with one of the single cheesiest openings I've ever seenBond and some cheesy old guy making death threats in British accentsand in the end you realize there was less action in this movie than an episode of SpongeBob.

Yes, Bond is darker. But what Hollywood forgot is when you take a fun, intentionally cheesy franchise like this and try to make it grim and menacing it doesn't work. The reason it doesn't work is because it's like dressing up a little girl as a serial killerit's cute, not threatening. In this case, it dulls down everything Bond has done in the past. The Bond series was meant to be a fun action movie with lots of explosions and shootouts, not a drama like Casino Royale that only literally has two main action scenes. Yes it's darker, but it's also a movie I couldn't take seriously at all because it tries to be cheesy and hardcore at the same time.

The plot. Terrorists, blah, money, blah, cliché, blah, I've seen this so many times I feel like shooting my eyes out, blah. As many terrorist movies there are, you'd think 90% of the human population is a terrorist. I have nothing more to say about that. Isn't there something more interesting for Bond to kill? - The villain is pure cheese, yet the movie wants us to take him seriously. Fake eye, bleeding eye, deformed bottom lip, British accent, wears a Dr. Evil jumpsuit through parts of the movieyup, he passes as the most cliché action villain of all time. Once again, the movie wants to be dark but elements like this just downright kill that. Entirely. Every time he came on the screen I laughed. I couldn't help it.

The movie does not stop talking! I will never understand why directors of ACTION movies throw in hours of talking that BORES the FANS who give them MONEY for no reason at all. If I wanted to hear talking, I'll go to the coffee shop. If I want an action movie, I'll watch things blow up. Why must there be so much pointless talking? Characters in Casino Royale talk and talk until I was ready to scream at them to shut up and turn the movie off. What are they talking about? I have no clue. Some crap about how your mother is a terrorist, or how goldfishes may be terrorists, or terrorists are terrorists, terrorists . . .

Overall, Daniel Craig is the best Bond and I think a darker tone could work in the future, but it doesn't work here. Casino Royale is not an action movie, being there are only two scenes of action in the whole movie and the rest is playing cards and talking. This is my least favorite Bond movie and my least favorite action movie of all time. At least the Bond video games are still fun and have superior (and less cheesy) writing/scripts to the films. And I just find it just downright sad that is how low this series, and action movies in general, have come.
1/10