Overview
Le Chiffre, a banker to the world's terrorists, is scheduled to participate in a high-stakes poker game in Montenegro, where he intends to use his winnings to establish his financial grip on the terrorist market. M sends Bond—on his maiden mission as a 00 Agent—to attend this game and prevent Le Chiffre from winning. With the help of Vesper Lynd and Felix Leiter, Bond enters the most important poker game in his already dangerous career.
I had long ago thought that the Bond franchise was dead. I was wrong. In this prequel you find out how Bond became Bond. It is not unlike the Batman prequel in that gone is the goofiness and ridiculous characters that plagued the Bond films of the last 25 years. What is left is a tremendous action flic. Actually, if the character’s name wasn’t “Bond” you wouldn’t even know that it was a Bond movie. The end was extremely surprising and unique to any other Bond movie.
IHATEBadMovies.com reviews Casino Royale
Movie title: Casino Royale
Movie description: Le Chiffre, a banker to the world's terrorists, is scheduled to participate in a high-stakes poker game in Montenegro, where he intends to use his winnings to establish his financial grip on the terrorist market. M sends Bond—on his maiden mission as a 00 Agent—to attend this game and prevent Le Chiffre from winning. With the help of Vesper Lynd and Felix Leiter, Bond enters the most important poker game in his already dangerous career.
Date published: 2007-11-23
Director(s): Martin Campbell
Actor(s): Daniel Craig, Eva Green, Mads Mikkelsen, Judi Dench, Jeffrey Wright, Giancarlo Giannini, Caterina Murino, Simon Abkarian, Isaach De Bankolé, Jesper Christensen, Ivana Miličević, Tobias Menzies, Claudio Santamaria, Sebastien Foucan, Malcolm Sinclair, Richard Sammel, Ludger Pistor, Joseph Millson, Darwin Shaw, Clemens Schick, Emmanuel Avena, Tom Chadbon, Ade, Urbano Barberini, Tsai Chin, Lazar Ristovski, Veruschka von Lehndorff, Charlie Levi Leroy, Tom So, Andreas Daniel, Carlos Leal, Christina Cole, Jürgen Tarrach, John Gold, Jerry Inzerillo, Diane Hartford, Jessica Miller, Leo Stransky, Paul Bhattacharjee, Crispin Bonham-Carter, Simon Cox, Rebecca Gethings, Peter Notley, John Chancer, Peter Brooke, Jason Durran, Robert Jezek, Robert G. Slade, Félicité Du Jeu, Michaela Ochotská, Michael Offei, Makhoudia Diaw, Michael G. Wilson, Martina Duravolá, Marcela Martincáková, Vladimir Kulhavy, Valentine Nonyela, Dusan Pelech, Phil Meheux, Alessandra Ambrosio, Veronika Hladikova, Regina Gabajová, Olutunji Ebun-Cole, Martin Učík, Vlastina Svátková, Miroslav Šimůnek, Ivan G'Vera, Jirí Lenc, Jaroslav Jankovsky, Richard Branson, Martin Campbell, Tara Cardinal, Ben Cooke, Nigel Pilkington, Simona Roman, Victor Sobchak, Valarie Trapp, Greg Bennett
Genre: Adventure, Action, Thriller
My Review
I had long ago thought that the Bond franchise was dead. I was wrong. In this prequel you find out how Bond became Bond. It is not unlike the Batman prequel in that gone is the goofiness and ridiculous characters that plagued the Bond films of the last 25 years. What is left is a tremendous action flic. Actually, if the character’s name wasn’t “Bond” you wouldn’t even know that it was a Bond movie. The end was extremely surprising and unique to any other Bond movie.
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My Review - 9/10
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