Tagline:
"Every legend has a beginning.
Discover how James became Bond."
I'm not a big Bond fan.
I never even got curious until Pierce Bronson got the part of Bond and then I watched some of his Bond movies.
I got a few laughs out of those. They've been on TV (satellite) lately. I suppose promoting the new Bond movie Quantum of Solace coming out in the movie theatres on 14 Nov 08.
I bought the prequel, Casino Royale, on DVD.
The movie is better if you have some background story beforehand.
Since this is when Bond as 007 began, Daniel Craig (b. 2 Mar 68, England) as the new younger Bond works very well.
I did not get how M (Judi Dench) could be the same older woman if the storyline is going way back to the beginning of Bond as 007. Dench is good, but just didn't seem to fit.
So basically, the very first thing you are hit with in the movie is a violent scene which is for Bond's 00 status, I guess. (License: two kills)
The next series of violence and tense action is leading up to the Casino moment, evidently.
That's the first hour of the movie.
Darker, grittier, humorless.
To me, just coming into it cold with no prep, it was just a bunch of meaningless violence and tense action with no purpose or story.
I could not get into the movie.
I think I went out to the kitchen and fixed something to eat while the movie was playing on during this part.
The movie is too long.
144 minutes.
So cut, cut, cut the first hour of the movie because...
THEN
Vesper (Eva Green b. 5 Jul 80, Paris) comes on the scene which saves the movie for me, because the relationship between Bond and Vesper is the best part of the film.
Vesper is delightful. Smokey eyes red lips beautiful and smart, they trade barbs back and forth on the train when they first meet each other.
Once the story gets this far and they are at or going to the Casino, things get much better.
The villian, Le Chiffre, (Mads Mikkelsen) is good.
His blonde girlfriend, Valenka, is actress Ivana Milicevic who was familiar to me.
She was in Head Over Heels, a dumb corny romantic comedy, which I happened to like.
Necklace
The necklace Vesper wears is an Algerian love knot necklace designed for Casino Royale by Sophie Harley.
Quotes
Quotes Link
Vesper Lynd: I'm the money.
James Bond: Every penny of it.
James Bond: That last hand nearly killed me.
Vesper Lynd: I'm afraid I'm a complicated woman.
James Bond: That is something to be afraid of.
Review
Ebert review of Casino Royale:
"...a poker game that is interrupted by the weirdest trip to the parking lot I've ever seen."
"Bond's absences from the table are of more than ordinary interest."
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Discussion Forums
Casino Royale
Quantum Solace
Brosnan's Bond
Pierce Brosnan James Bond movies are:
GoldenEye (1995)
Tomorrow Never Dies (1997)
The World Is Not Enough (1999).
Die Another Day (2002)
UPDATE 13 Nov 08:
Good recap of all Bond movies.
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