Some Disappointment.

Rating: 6/10 (19 March 2016)

This "Casino Royale Pt. II" could have been so great. So great. The promising opening scene was a real roaring and loaded one, when you watched it on the big screen at the premiere. This gonna turn out good, I remember saying to myself after some 10-15 minutes into the show.
Then the interest faded fast, and the story got striking dull to me. It turned out to a common action-movie with less Bond-feeling than it's precursor. The chase after a major crime syndicate that started in CR, suddenly wasn't that interesting anymore. A clip-show of action packed scenes that was suppose to keep you engaged, doesn't do it. Much violence. Very much violence. The producers defended it with Bond's strong will to avenge Vesper Lynd's death, but I think that failed. The producers seemed to have packed in some 80 m $ more than CR, for nothing. (Total cost of some 230 m $, I've read.) The movie is overall quite good, but has too many lacks. The cast is good, the environments is nice, but the real, solid 007-feeling isn't just there.
The women who passes by are just for looks; best of them is beautiful Gemma Arterton, who plays her part for some laughs, as I see it. Easy going, with humor. The main Bond Girl of the movie (played by Olga Kurylenko) is quite flat, as the usual "Pleasure Girl Who Has Been Kept Imprisoned By Villain". She is on her own vendetta journey and crosses Bond's way on the road.
Jesper Christensen's Mr. White was to be developed further on. A well played personality by a professional actor. Jeffery Wright's Felix Leiter of the CIA delivers a good touch to the movie, too.
The somehow main story (of water supplies for an exposed Latin country) is the most important sub-message of this film. Policy makers who wants control over the helpless masses. The end is a lecture of what's rightfully comes to you when you're too evil minded...
This is not one of the greatest James Bond movies. Shortest running time of them all (106 minutes) which suits this movie good. It's not standing out as a true classic like Goldfinger, OHMSS, For Your Eyes Only, Goldeneye, or it's mate movie Casino Royale.
But it's a part of the 007 movie log all right, and deserve to be watched even in the future.
Next up was a major improvement, some four years away. Too far away, back then.