All business

Rating: 7/10 (28 November 2006)

The new Bond film is all business. Casino Royale is an excellent film with ample but not over the top special effects sequences lie those found in many of its predecessors. The on-foot chase sequence in the beginning of the movie is amazing. I left with bruises. A later torture scene had me wearing a hole in the fabric of my theater seat. You'll get it when you see it. Oww.
It should also be noted that my wife thinks Daniel Craig is quite the hunk. I haven't heard that from her since Redford made The Sting.
Finally, old Bond fans will miss the whimsy of earlier films. Most of them had some level of tongue-in-cheek humor laced throughout the action. As a result, Connery and his heirs never took themselves too seriously. You could always expect an occasional wink from the old Bonds ... not here. Like filmdom's Bourne and TV's Bauer, Casino Royale's Bond is all business.