Review of Casino Royale (2006) by George F — 22 Dec 2015

Casino Royale is Daniel Craig's first James Bond film, and is Martin Campbell's second time that revived the James Bond franchise. People were very worried about Daniel Craig at first, but nowadays, people are excited to see him in the next film which makes sense as he is terrific in it and is a great replacement for Pierce Brosnan.

Mads Mikkelsen is did a really good job as a villain, and Eva Green is great as a Bond girl while still having her own character that makes it stick out. The writing by Neal Purvis, Robert Wade, and Paul Haggis is well written, and the action sequences are great and fun to watch.

The movie doesn't necessarily focus on the action scenes and is mostly on the plot, which is really well done also. The characters are memorable and so is the villain, the poker scenes are intense to watch, even though I know nothing about poker.

The movie takes some new risks that made this film stand out, and when I thought that the movie should've ended at the main plot and had no reason to keep going, well it actually had a reason which I'm glad that I found it unpredictable.

It's smart, and the film sets it up for the sequel very cleverly, even if Quantum of Solace turn out to be a hateful film for the fans.