| Field | Details |
|---|---|
| Movie Name | Casino Royale (2006) |
| Director | Martin Campbell |
| Writer | Neal Purvis, Robert Wade, Paul Haggis |
| Lead Actor | Daniel Craig |
| Cast | Daniel Craig, Eva Green, Judi Dench |
| Genre | Action, Adventure, Thriller |
| Release Date | November 17, 2006 (United States) |
| Duration | 2h 24m(144 min) |
| Budget | $150 million |
| Language | English |
| IMDB Rating | 8.0/10 |
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REVIEW Of Casino Royale (2006)
There’s nothing I feel like reviewing about this movie, so here’s a list of things I don’t like about Casino Royale. Wait, let me write that in big title-style letters:
Things I don’t like about Casino Royale
1) The script is nauseating. I mean, it tries to be all classic Bond with the one liners, and then impress us with some ‘witty’ repartee, but it seems like cookie cutout of a slick secret agent movie. I much prefer Austin Powers satire to the real thing, if you can believe it.
2) Craig Daniels is the new James Bond, and I think he’s supposed to represent a crueler James Bond, one that hasn’t learned the dapper suavery of Sean Connery’s Bond. Still, he seems more like a robot than a likeable character, and it’s hard to resonate with his character, especially given that he has big ears.
3) Part of Bond movies is the absolutely ridiculous action scenes, with Bond escaping machine gun-wielding mercenaries, exploding cars or death defying leaps into the air. With Roger Moore, you could accept it, because the entire film feels like a cartoon. In this grittier Casino Royale, though, the action scenes jar the realism of the entire movie. I know I should just enjoy it for what it is, but I wasn’t able to.
4) The romance between Bond and Vesper Lynd is the complete opposite of romantic. I don’t pretend to be a great admirer of romance, but I can’t stand it when Hollywood tries to tack it on, especially in action films. The dialogue between the two characters is snarly at first, then suddenly, they’re in love. It’s vomitous and nauseating.
5) The ‘villain’ in this film is really nerdy and immoral.
6) The throwbacks to older Bond films is supposed to make us nod knowingly and chuckle. Bond orders a martini: ‘Would you like that shaken or stirred, Sir?’ to which Bond replies ‘Do I look like I give a damn?’ Ooooooh, snaps! Such wit. Such a clever line.
7) Gambling always plays a big part in Bond films, and watching Connery at the casino table locked in a vicious battle with his opponent was a highlight of the originals. The poker sequences in Casino Royale are bereft of tension, and predictable. I’d much prefer to watch Rounders, with John Malkovitch eating those Oreo cookies.
8) Eva Green is a stunning actress to watch, and I was looking forward to her role in this film, but the filmmakers tramped her up with nasty makeup and the screenwriters pumped her dialogue full of noxious lines.
9) Do we really have to see more underwater kiss scenes? I struggled to sit through the Bourne Supremacy opening minutes, and this was almost the same damn thing. Is it really so easy to hover underwater, expelling air, looking at your dying lover?
10) I can’t keep writing this. Just writing this list makes me remember enough of the movie to put me in a bad mood. Here is the end
However, one of the opening scenes, where Bond chases a ‘terrorist’ through a construction site is fanastique! Parkour it up, baby!
You’ve probably already seen this. I bet your friends all said ‘Let’s go see the new Bond movie! Whee! Popcorn!’ and you all pretended to have a good time. But you didn’t really enjoy it, did you? Did you?
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