Bond, James Bond. Definitely the most famous lines ever. Well when Daniel Craig was announced as new james bond, I wasn’t sure whether he will be perfect for bond, No doubt he’s good actor, but Daniel is blond, blue eyes very unlike previous Bond.
Movie starts with cold blooded killing by Bond to earn double O status. Then we move over to African continent where international money launderer Le Chiffre (Mads Mikkelsen) is using war money to fund his stock purchases in market. Followed by totally unbelievable chase sequence (I guess best one in recent years and its not some random car chase). Story movies to Jamaica and Miami, where bond foils an terrorist attempt which ruins Le Chiffre’s stocks and force him to organize high stakes poker game in Montenegro to fund his losing, and bond is assigned to win the game and track all money laundering business. What follows is totally brilliant movie.
The revelation in the movie is Bond himself. Daniel Craig is an immensely physical 007. Crashing through walls and leaping from buildings with superhuman strength. During one scrape he pulls out a large nail that's embedded in his shoulder and tosses it nonchalantly aside. Unlike previous bond whose tuxedos won’t get dirty in fight, Daniel bleeds like real man. He spends much of this film a bloodied and bruised mess, no body ever challenged his acting abilities and Craig proved in this movie that you can act in James bond movie too, its not about just style and action.
Mikkelsen's villain is low-key compared to over the top Bond villain. The infamous torture scene with Bond and the cut-out chair is all the more chilling thanks to Le Chiffre's ice-cold demeanor.
Shrewd and smart as well as gorgeous, Vesper Lynd(Eva Green) is hardly the typical Bond girl, and Green makes her an ideal match for Craig's Bond. Her chemistry with Daniel was instant. In one notable scene, Vesper attempts to purge herself under a hotel shower after she witnesses Bond kill a henchman. She imagines blood on her hands. Bond joins her under the spray - both of them still clothed - and sucks her fingers.
I always believed that any movie is as good as its script, which was lacking in last few bond movies. Script by hangs together reasonably well and is rewarded for its unaccustomed preoccupation with character by the attentiveness to same by director Martin Campbell, back after having helmed the first Brosnan entry, "GoldenEye," 11 years ago. Dialogue requires Bond to acknowledge his mistakes and reflect on the soul-killing nature of his job, self-searching unimaginable in previous bond movies. Bond in casino royale is not perfect, He’s impetuous and a little messy. He makes mistakes.
In end it’s one of the best bond movies ever, Daniel Craig has excelled as bond in Casino royale, I guess franchisees is now in good hands just like batman, which was fizzling with couple of bad movies, already looking forward to next installment in may 2008.
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Bond?
James Bond: No, dont worry. You're not my type.
Vesper Lynd: Smart?
James Bond: Single.
2 comments:
well my criteria for a character is good actor.or should i say greater actor. i never counted Pierce Brosnan
as good. He was pathetic in acting.
I agree Daniel is not u r stereotype bond.But in my opinion he's good in acting and its the only thing what matter. They were certain scenes where he acted with just his face or his eyes, i best bronsnan cann't do it even in million year.
Rest aside Sean connery was still the best bond ever.
Baki kabhi agar mujhe galti se chance de de to:>
We also need to consider that this was first novel by Ian Fleming and bond in this novel was entirely diffrent , he was more human who makes mistakes.He was not a great womaniser or should I say a charmer and thus the movie does justice to the novel it is based on and I liked this image more because he was more human then a super hero.
I am not a great fan of bond, but what I have gathered from few bond novels I have read, I can say Brosnan was closer to what has been decribed in the books. I wont like to comment on his acting ability. But yes I have seen him doing better in other movies.
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