True to Ian Fleming's James Bond

Rating: 10/10 (22 December 2006)

I rarely give a score higher than 8 out of 10 but I make an exception in this case due to the fidelity shown in this movie to the concept of Bond created in the story Casino Royale. While living life as nearly all do with the day-to-day struggles, I kept, in the far reaches of my mind, the question of when I would see a Bond on film that truly was what Ian Fleming created. With all due respect to Sean Connery (who was a great James Bond), Daniel Craig's version is, in my humble opinion, most true to the Bond created by Fleming in Casino Royale. The reality, the cold-blooded killer, the danger, the damage inflicted and sustained in each fight - all show what Fleming was trying to convey in his initial and subsequent books. It was exceedingly pleasing to watch a film that finally met my standard of what Bond was/is even tho it took 30 odd years of waiting on my part. The waiting, tho, was well worth it. I just hope I don't have to wait another 30 years to see Craig as Bond again (and, I might add, especially so by my wife whose comment after the film was "He's hot!").