Casino Royale proves that James Bond is still alive and very well!

Rating: Null/10 (6 December 2006)

Casino Royale, the 21st movie in the James Bond series is quite possibly one of the most well acted, well scripted of all the James Bond movies. This Bond movie; is one of the most believable ones of them all, with Daniel Craig putting up an amazing performance by taking up the role of James Bond from Pierce Brosnan. The movie takes place as Bond has just been promoted to a 00 agent. As he is tracking a terrorist in Madagascar, he finds himself beat up from the journey to track him and ends up killing his target and destroying his chances of catching the terrorist organization. While he was tracking the terrorist, there is a great chase scene which is planted very smoothly into the movie. Yet Bond independently decides to track the rest of the terrorist cell. By breaking into "M"s apartment he accesses MI6 with her computer and tracks his lead to the Bahamas. While there, he finds Dimitrios, and his girlfriend Solange. He then learns that Le Chiffre, a banker to terrorist organizations, is involved with Dimitrios. From secret service, he learns Le Chiffre is planning on having a High stakes poker game in Montenegro at the Le Casino Royale. MI6 assigns Bond to play against Le Chiffre, who is played very chilly and convincingly by Mads Mikkelsen.
While in Montenegro, "M" places, Bond under very beguiling, Vesper Lynd, who is played very well by Eva Green. While playing against Le Chiffre, dealing with his personal envy of Vesper, and the growing violence that progresses the longer they play, Bond is faced with one the roughest mission's in all of his movies. I personally it think is the most well made Bond movie of all of them and expertly played. If I thought Daniel Craig was not suited for the role before watching Casino Royale, I was certain of it, after. Daniel Craig plays Bond to the fullest and even passing Shaun Connery in his acting of James Bond. Bond, in this movie is not just a guy with a bunch of gadgets and invisible cars, he is an actual person that screws up and gets hurt a lot. By being more real and more damageable he really makes himself look even stronger then older Bond characters. Not only is Bond better in this film, the villain Mads Mikkelsen really puts up a great performance as the chilling Le Chiffre...Who even tortures Bond in the later part of the film. Another great actress in this film is Vesper Lynd who plays the self respected accountant of Bonds money fund from MI6, and his Love interest later in the film that makes him think twice about quitting his job as a 00 agent. Overall, this movie really shines better then almost every Bond movie I can remember and pulls off Bond like never before with great acting, a smooth story, and a lot of action in-between.