The movie is on the right track, but not entirely.

Rating: 8/10 (26 April 2015)

I want to say that I'm thankful toward Casino Royale for disposing of the silliness and over-the-top gadgetry that plagued recent Bond movies and for re-inventing 007 Bond as being caustic, haunting and tense, adjectives that I think best suit him. However, and in my honest opinion, I have to say that I didn't think that Daniel Craig was the perfect choice to be cast as 007 Bond because for me I imagine a 007 Bond spy/agent as having black hair and brown eyes and Daniel Craig, unfortunately, wasn't that: he has blond hair, blue-pale eyes, and he has mouse-like ears which bothered me. His round face and size however was no problem to me. When it comes to action sequences, I was disappointed and annoyed because almost all of them did not make a strong impact on me and the plot. I thought that the main Bond woman was beautiful and that she wore beautiful dresses, albeit (maybe) lacking something crucial: sensual charm. I also thought that the movie had a strong thematic richness, suitably appropriate violence, fun, thought- provoking dialog and some inventive stuff such as Bond fighting a villain on a construction site and jumping from one crane to another, Bond driving a tractor to try to catch a villain, Bond showing up at M's place without permission, the way Bond was tortured in the film by the main villain, the airport chase scene and more still. My rating: 8.0/10