Ubiquitous British Agent takes on Albanian terrorist & torturer....in a card game!

Rating: 7/10 (31 October 2007)

I always find it hard to review a 'new' Bond since their first movie hasn't given you enough time to get use to the fact that this will be the Bond for the next few films. But in any case I did not hold it against Daniel Craig.
(spoilers here) The film is based upon a plot where an Albanian terrorist "LeChine" attempts to blow up a new jetliner while simultaneously shorting said company's stock. The Saudis and Albanians did this in REAL life during the 911 attacks in New York. Needless to say Bond foils the plot and needs to confront this criminal in a casino in a high stacks card game. Compared to other Bond flicks this movie isn't going to break any new ground. It is also important to note that there is one particularly gruesome torture scene where the LeChine uses the Albanian testicle torture method (so commonly used in WWII by them with their alliance with the Nazis). I thought that scene was a step further than the attempted tortures of Bond by the bad guys in previous films.
Overall though only an average Bond flick