I know I’m a little late on this one, but I didn’t see it in theatres. Last night, I watched it with some of my friends from my dorm. I must say it’s a pretty kickass movie.
Casino Royale is the 21st James Bond Film, and it was the first one to star Daniel Craig. I must say that Craig is definitely an extremely good 007. The movie starts out with Bond killing a rouge MI6 section chief. He then gets tangled up in a bomb plot, and is soon thrust into a poker tournament for the “high rollers.” The buy-in is $10 million, and many of the players there are terrorists hoping to use the prize money ($150 million) to fund their activities. Bond enters to win the money away from these unsavory characters.
The acting of this movie was very good. Bond was excellent, the “Bond girl(s)” w(as/ere) hot, as it should be. The music was superb. In fact, it may be the first James Bond soundtrack to grace my music collection, if I can find it. The action sequences were tight, well-filmed, and exciting (especially the opening one… the henchman was freaking pimp, and he was clearly a free runner).
I must say, that Casino Royale was one of the best James Bond films I’ve seen in recent years. The plot was a bit shakey at points, but overall, it was an extremely good movie.