Casino Royale
Went with Al, MrBen, Pedro and Gordie to see this the other night, and was blown away!! Daniel Craig has done an amazing job of being the guy we all know and love, but not quite.
For those of you who don’t know, this isn’t a Bond continuation, more a restart. This is how Bond BECAME the guy we all know and love, and what a great idea it was.
The basic storyline is that Bond is just promoted to double o status, meaning he gets more dangerous missions. It goes from chasing a parquor expert, then he has to play a huge poker game for some reason, and it’s ALL good. This time round, there’s no Moneypenny, no Q, but what makes up for that is Eva Green(as the bond girl) and some really good action minus gadgets, which is nice to see, it’s nice to see Bond being proper hard, and getting into some proper fights and kicking ass, though he does take some amount of abuse too.
Bond type stuff
What does remain intact is the Bond girls. Eva Green (Kingdom of Heaven) plays a fellow MI6 agent, well, accountant, who funds Bind in his poker game. The chemistry between them is really good, so much tension in there, and its good to see that Bond girls have more in them than just to have sex with Bond, yes, i said it:P.
What’s also nice to see is that a Bond baddie has a disfigurement like the baddie of old, like Blofeld and Jaws. This guy has a weird eye and occasionally weeps blood.
The quips are still there, but they are a bit funnier. Funnier than the controversial Brosnan saying of “I thought christmas only came once a year”. They’re both not as crude and much funnier.
Conclusion
I’ll be the first to hold my hand up and say at first i was disappointed that Brosnan was shunned, I liked him as Bond, he had the charm and stuff like that, and could pull off action sequences, and Craig, well, he had blond hair, what was that all about? But what he has done is bring back a younger, harder, rawer Bond, who doesn’t know everything and sometimes gets it wrong, but kicks ass anyway. If you haven’t saw it, go see it.
Oh and guys, you will feel SO SO sorry for Bond at one point, you will know what i’m talking about when you see it.
Cheezy 