"A Bloody Royal Treat From Martin Campbell"

Rating: 10/10 (23 November 2006)

CASINO ROYALE blows out all the action, adventure, thriller films before it with a marvelously entertaining and rollicking film that knocks your sox off and keeps you glued to your chair with wonderment in how one man, JAMES BOND, can keep up with all the action and hard work and intrigue. However, in Daniel Craig, this JAMES BOND is the best ever with a "tongue in cheek" manner about him in a body that a West Hollywood man would die for. Can hardly wait until the next Daniel Craig BOND film.
Tremendous locations-although the opening scene in Prague in a skyscraper is one in which I don't recall architecture, nor buildings like that one in that city-but the other sets in Nassau and Venice and along the Italian/Swiss lakes area, were breathtaking and really lent to the story and characters. Judy Dench as M is once again such a great actor and her lines were superb. The whole cast is tremendous.
CASINO ROYALE is written and developed in a very clever way by Neal Purvis and Robert Wade and certain scenes stay in your mind forever. But in the end, this film's strength is in the casting of the incredible Daniel Craig who is an actor that can do everything from LAYER CAKE, to INFAMOUS to the role of James Bond. Bravo to selecting Daniel Craig as the new Bond.