Daniel Craig's first Bond film. Very, very overstated. 2006. Director: Martin Campbell.
Bond (Daniel Craig) has just earned his 00 status. In Madagascar, he chases a man called Mollaka (Sébastien Foucan) who he after a chase kills and with Mollaka's cellphone, Bond sees that Mollaka has recieved an sms from Alex Dimitrios (Simon Ankarian).
Dimitrios is an assaciate of Le Chiffre (Mads Mikkelsen) who's a dangerous man. Bond travel to Bahamas where Dimitrios is located, wins Dimitrios's Aston Martin DB5 in a poker game and then suduces his wife, Solange (Caterina Murino). Solange tells Bond that Dimitrios is going to Miami in business.
Bond goes to Miami and finds out that someone is going to destroy a new airplane worth too much money to mention. He manages to save the plane, which leads to real trouble for Le Chiffre who put A LOT of money into the affair and would get a lot of money if the plane would have been destoyed as planned.
Stressed and nervous, Le Chiffre arrange a high-stakes poker tournament at Casino Royale in Montenegro to win the money back before a specific date. If he can't get the money back, he will be killed by the people he ownes money. We're talking lots and lots of millions here.
MI6 makes Bond enter the tournament. René Mathis (Giancarlo Giannini) and the beautiful Vesper Lynd (Eva Green) is there with him to help him. Vesper is an agent for HM treasury and is there to see that Bond doesn't do anything stupid with the government's money.
The game begin, but it isn't really a silly game. It's deadly serious. Le Chiffre fools Bond to think that he's bluffing, and Bond loses "his" money. Vesper says that Bond is too careless and refuses him the money to get back into the game.
Bond prepares to kill Le Chiffre, but is intercepted by another player, Felix Leiter (Jeffrey Wright). Leiter is working for CIA. He loses on purpose to get Bond back into the game. It's getting more deadly and dangerous then ever before. Bond must do anything to stop Le Chiffre.
This is an extremely overstated Bond film. All newpapers and critics just seems to love it, but I just can't see why. It's not a good Bond film. The people making it seemed to think that if they made the film more "deep" then the others, it would be a very emotional Bond film that everybody would just adore. I don't adore this film.
Daniel Craig is okey as Bond, but the worst so far. Is I skip the usual comments of his length and haircolor, I say that he's just not the Bond type. He looks like a huge muscle himself, with scary eyes of ice and he doesn't have that charm of Sean Connery and Roger Moore's. Craig's Bond if just a fighting action man, but not a charming man who can talk in that way that Bond should.
They also take away some VERY important parts of the Bond films that is compuslory! The film ALWAYS begin with Bond walking in front of a white background and shoot a bullet at us and then some blood then covers the screen. That's not how this Bond film starts. That this is suppose to take place before the other films is not good either, makes everything to confusing.
Bond is not a charming, elegant but also dangerous agent here. He's just dangerous and a killing machine. In the beginning, he brutally kills a man and drowns him in a sink. That's not like Bond. This film is missing a ghastly important part, the charm. That's the reason why the grade is so bad.
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