Sorry I like the previous films

Rating: 5/10 (21 November 2006)

Well, I beg to differ, Casino Royale is a good action movie but is it a good Bond movie? I mean imagine if it was just an action film without the "Bond" tag, you would have accepted it as your usual summer action flick. But where is Bond, THE James Bond ? The opening scene is inverted, meaning the action sequence (the chase, well made) comes after the opening credits, not before, and as a Bond fan I would have hoped for a dazzling opening especially that this Bond is new. Daniel Craig keeps the same straight face all through the film, maybe not wishing to "over" do it,but I am one who did not read any of Ian Fleming's books, so I really don't care if the main character in Casino Royale is closer to what the author intended; previous films always showed a colorful Bond, with a great sense of humor, and not taking himself too seriously all the time. And who says that we audience don't like the gadgets? Scenes with gadgets in previous films are always great fun (except, granted, the one about the invisible car, this was too much...), as for the gambling table scenes in Casino Royale, I think they lacked the sense of menace and tension that previous films always conveyed when stakes were high in similar situations. I hope in the next Bond film Daniel Craig "loosens up" a bit, and be given a dialog with more panache, he doesn't have to be a humane Bond, let him be James Bond.