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What, a Bond that bleeds, who gets bruised, whose doubts his own ability to be fulfilled with a life in the British Secret Service, and undoubtedly a Bond with a soul. Could this possibly be a real James Bond movie, it is, and it is unlike anything we have seen from the Bond universe before. There is no villain bent on world-domination, no cheesy catch-phrases or puns, no expendable women only filling the screen for the sole purpose of sex appeal and male ogling, and no gadgets to get Bond out of the exact situation they were meant to get him out of. He must fight and struggle to beat the odds, and boy does he have his successes and his failures. This is a bond that is real, a bond that is human, a bond that is hopefully here to stay.
The whole purpose of Casino Royale is to show how Bond becomes Bond. In fact, this is the Batman Begins of the Bond series. Bond didn't always drink a martini "shaken and not stirred," he did not always view women as dispensable pleasures, he was not always the bond we all know him to be, yet in Casino Royale we begin to understand why he becomes that way. In essence, this is very much an origins film about Bond being sent on his first mission to stop and international terrorist from garnishing millions in a secret poker tournament at famed Casino Royale. Bond is sent in to seek out the mastermind behind the tournament, who is trying to save his own hide from African militants. What we get with this plot of twist and turns is some of the most thrilling action scenes of recent years, one of if not the best scripts of the franchise, and a movie the takes you into the psyche of the man that has come to be regarded as one the greatest hero's in all of Hollywood History.
When news that Daniel Craig was stepping into the shoes of 007, and when Bond fans around the world said "Nay," I got excited. I was excited because Craig has come boldly upon the Hollywood scene in recent years with a sense of sheer veracity and pure masculinity, and he brings every ounce of it into his role as Bond. Just looking at his track record shows why he is such a great pick including rolls in such films as Lakercake, his exception performance as Tom Hanks nemesis in Road to Perdition, and his near Bond performance as a Mosad assassin in Steven Speilberg's Munich (The movie that sold me on Craig as Bond). There is no doubt that Craig was the best choice among others thought to be choice picks (i.e. Ewan McGreggor, Clive Owen).
Casino Royale is the most real and gritty bond of all them all. It may even rival Goldeneye and Goldfinger as one of the best Bond movies ever, and Daniel Craig may even rival Connery as one of the best actors to ever where the tux.
GRADE: A-
RECOMMEND: Enthusiastically with caution for some intense moments of violence!
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