Miles away from Bond's style.

Rating: 4/10 (4 December 2006)

I am a big fan of James Bond. Yet I fail to understand why would they make such a bad Bond movie.
CAREFUL: The movie's OK, it has good action scenes, it is well done, I particularly appreciated the limitations in CGI usage, but Casino Royale, has way too much action, and no style, and when you take out the style in a Bond movie, the whole thing would look like any action movie.
Where's the irony? Where's the fun? Where's the typical good/evil fight? If I want to see good action scenes, I go for The bourne.
I particularly disliked all the unlikely-to-happen scenes, people jumping like monkeys, palaces sinking, police cars flying because of a 747's go around. JUST BORING. We have enough of that Hollywood bull, old Bond movies didn't have any of that, and were 20 times better.
And again the worst detail was him falling desperately in love with Eva Green. It may have been in the book, but the whole thing looks 110% cheesy and fake.
I repeat, this is a very good action movie, but nothing more. We want the Bond's style back. We will be waiting for it.