Perfect Bond

Rating: 9/10 (3 June 2020)

After several over-the-top movies with Brosnan, it was time to yank Bond out of the sky and ground him for a more realistic approach to the cat & mouse game.
This Bond movie has everything. A suberb rooted plot, excellent scipt and a brilliant cast that gives us a hint of mystique and plenty of drama, thrill, suspense and politics. Almost every major character gets their ass whooped in one way or another. This time, Bond himself is no super agent opting for huge explosions and clever gadgetry (well a little but hardly any unrealistic ones). He is a human like all of us and is given no second chances to survive. He is more loped into an anti-hero role than anything.
The beauty of this movie is the villain. Mikkelsen´s Le Chiffre plays a criminal where time is just as much against him as it is for Bond. He needs money to stay alive and goes for a high stake poker game to earn it to finance some nasty plans he needs to pay for. Bond must join in the game to prevent it happening.
See, no super bad-guy trickery here, you will be surprised to see what Le Chiffre´s demise will be and who ends him.
No Bond movie is complete with the essential Bond girl. This time, a fantastic Eva Green provides her dark looks and presence to cast a more posh counterpart for bond. No blondes this time., just a solid knockout femme fatale.
So without a doubt, the best Bond movie ever made in my opinion. Beats Connery, beats Moore.. Beats them all. This is a serious, 100% spy movie for adults.
"Shaken or stirred"
"Does it look like i give a damn..?"