Who are these people that liked this movie?

Rating: 4/10 (21 November 2006)

I waited through the first weekend to go see 'Casino Royale' and felt excited to go see it after friends, customers, and IMDb fans said that it was great. I'll give the movie it's opening chase scene that has some awesome parkour performers in it, but that's about it. The film declines severely from this point except for a few moments of action that accelerate the pulse of this long, boring James Bond but for a short time.
The absence of 'Q' is tangible throughout for the lack of gadgets. The most interesting gadget was a defibrillator in the glove box...
The two hours following the opening chase scene is plagued by bad acting(yes I know it's James Bond)and ridiculously unrealistic circumstances. For instance: 'Yes I know you're with a government agency that's bent on seeing me killed by Africans, but please join my card game' or 'I can follow this guy easily through as many airport check points as I want because I'm James Bond' or, how about: damn they've really taken too much time trying to build plot around this anticlimactic card game, and, of course, 'I love you!! Don't Die!!' Bad, Bad Cpr..... Bad bad Cpr..... oh well I gave it 5 seconds... I guess she's dead... amazing though I am to break a gate, scream at her while she's drowning, even though we've been in the water the same amount of time i'll carry you back to the top and not be able to help... Some great secret agent.
Finally, after all that, this tired movie and storyline end with: There's going to be more of this tired storyline.
Sigh. I liked most of the action. The acting and plot and relationships throughout the movie were boring, and in a 2 1/2 hour long movie that's 6 action sequences and two hours of filler.