Casino Royale [2006] (DVD)

How eager were we all when we heard that the latest Bond film was to be a remake of Casino Royale? I, for one, couldn't wait. Then, the announcement of Daniel Craig as James Bond was made. The potential was there, sure, but I remember thinking they would have to make a really mind-blasting film to kick off Craig's stint as the suave 007. And what a film!! Following a brief black and white explanation of Bond's elevation to 'Double 0' status, it starts as it means to go on, with an intense free-running chase. Without giving any spoilers, the end of this scene left me breathless. And thus it continued. The quality of filming is high. Martin Campbell's ...  Read the complete review

This Christmas was a great time for me, as I recieved an excellent present. So I thought I would place up a review on it. As an avid Bond fan since being little, it was with some excitement that when I heard that Daniel Craig had been given the part of the legendary agent that I knew straight away that we were heading in a different direction with the franchise. That is not to say that Pierce Brosnan was not a good Bond, he was. Unfortunately he was let down by the scripts and the insanity of gadgets that kept snowballing to the extent of the invisible car in Die Another Day. To survive, the next Bond film had to be different, in fact it had to be ...  Read the complete review

I have never been a fan of any kind of James Bond film and don’t know why but I just consider them your typical man film so usually avoid them. I have seen a few though which have proved me wrong but when I heard Daniel Craig was going to replace Pierce Brosnan as the new Bond I was a bit put off as I didn’t really feel he was the right man for the part. Casino Royale is the first film he has played the part of Bond and after saying to myself I would go see the film I never got round to it but the other night I finally watched the film and have to say I was surprisingly impressed and it wasn’t as torturing an experience as I’d expected it would have been. The ...  Read the complete review

This review is on the twenty first James Bond film "Casino Royale", directed by Martin Campbell and starring Daniel Craig, Judi Dench and Eva Green. The film was released in 2006 and was based on the novel by Peter Fleming. Casino Royale had previously been produced twice before, once in 1954 as a television programme and again in 1967 as a comedy version. The initial idea was to have Casino Royale released much earlier, but due to copyright of the name, they had to wait some time before they could make this film. The 21st Bond film also introduced a new member of the bond family and became the sixth James Bond. I was quite spectacle about this film at ...  Read the complete review

Eon productions, the studio behind the indestructible James Bond franchise, made a big decision when they parted company with Pierce Brosnan sometime in the wake of 2002's Die Another Day. Although into his fifties, Brosnan still looked relatively good and seemed to deserve one more adventure. Die Another Day was very successful but hardly classic Bond and Brosnan deserved at least a better picture to sign off on. Why did they put the Brozza in the ejector seat anyway? Rumours aside, the principle reason was Eon finally aquiring the rights to Ian Fleming's first Bond novel Casino Royale. Bond producer Michael G Wilson had floated a 'young Bond' film in 1986 and been ...  Read the complete review