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'Casino Royale'
(Daniel Craig, Judi Dench, Jeffrey Wright, Eva Green, Mads Mikkelsen, Giancarlo Giannini, et al / R / 94 mins / Sony Pictures)

Overview: James Bond's (Daniel Craig) first "007" mission leads him to Le Chiffre (Mads Mikkelsen), banker to the world's terrorists. In order to stop him, and bring down the terrorist network, Bond must beat Le Chiffre in a poker game at the Casino Royale. Bond meets a beautiful British Treasury official, Vesper Lynd (Eva Green), who is assigned to deliver his stake for the game and watch over the government's money. But, as Bond and Vesper survive a series of lethal attacks by Le Chiffre and his henchmen, a mutual attraction develops.

Verdict: Remember Timothy Dalton and Roger Moore and Pierce Brosnan and how suave and dashing and freshly bathed they always seemed? Well, those days are over. Craig as Bond is an egocentric, thugged-out hot-head with a squashed-in mug whose first impulse isn't to invite you to tea with David Niven. He's just going to shoot you in the face. And it's about time. I haven't dug a James Bond movie this much in about, oh, I don't know, forever! 'Casino Royale' sees Bond recharged with fresh toughness and arrogance and that is a GOOD thing! In fact, no Bond film has ever offered a chase sequence on par with the opening one here ... in my humble opinion, of course! See it today to live the experience!





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