Good restart but...

Rating: 9/10 (7 January 2007)

There are 2 main problems with this film : it is too long by 30 minutes and during the card game at Casino Royale it becomes the first boring Bond film ! This had a knock-on effect of making the Bond-Lynd story seem rushed and more superficial than it should have been and the amazing Eva Green should have had more screen time.
There are traces of the spectacular of the old Bonds especially in the building site, Miami airport and Venice sequences but Mr Craig's excellent portrayal brought to mind Timothy Dalton's Bond more than anyone else.
Other than that there really should have been a warning that some of the action takes place in the "Body Worlds" exhibition of Dr. von Hagens - personally I found this section more objectionable than anything in the story including the infamous torture scene.