Casino Royale

This is among the best bond movies! You have to see it. After all the controversy and comments on Daniel Craig's potential as an actor and doubts over him playing Bond...i'd say forget it and be enthralled by the new... Read more at imdb.com

I saw this at a special premiere and i was amazed. having never been a Bond fan i wasn't really expecting much from this. After watching Brosnans invisible car in the previous incarnation I thought it could only get worse.... Read more at imdb.com

First off, the negative. Casino Royale is both too long and too short. Like OHMSS, there are moments when the running time feels its length and others where you think something's missing because they suddenly tried to trim the running... Read more at imdb.com

What a difference a great actor makes. Daniel Craig is superb as James Bond and parting from that point everything in it is enjoyable, frightening, thrilling just because we're with him. He conquered us from the word go. The initial... Read more at imdb.com

I saw this at a cast and crew screening in London last weekend: I'm not a huge Bond fan, but I do enjoy them on a purely popcorn level and this was definitely one of the best in recent memory.... Read more at imdb.com

This is one of the best bond films ever. Before this movie I thought Bourn Identity/Supremacy was the best spy movie since Sean Connery. They finally did away with "pretty boy" idea and put their mind to the character of James... Read more at yahoo.com

Though it doesn't care too much about the series' continuity (it's supposed to be Bond's first mission as a 00 agent, but it takes place after the Cold war and Judi Dench is already M), "Casino Royale" is a great... Read more at imdb.com

James Bond is back and he is alive and well. Any questions about Daniel Craig's worthiness are thrown out almost immediately as we are handed a film filled to the brim with exquisite action and explosive emotion. I squirmed in... Read more at imdb.com

Now look, I'm a hard-core James Bond fan. Some might say a purist.I make no apologies for believing that Timothy Dalton is the closest thing we've seen to IAN FLEMING's James Bond.Last night I saw Casino Royale.This is, for the... Read more at imdb.com

There is only one movie franchise that has twisted, turned and reinvented itself on so many occasions...007 has unfortunately dwindled more than it has bedazzled over the last decades but I am relieved to see that Martin Campbell has put... Read more at imdb.com

The plot details won't sustain close analysis, a quality Casino Royale shares with every other movie in the series. Casino Royale has all the necessary ingredients and deserves to be watched on a big screen in a proper theater, not on your cell phone or computer monitor. ... Full Review

All in all, this "Casino Royale" is a very successful return to the original concept of the Bond films, with the additional frisson of a powerful new lead. The film begins with a 10-minute chase so over-the-top that the most inventive video game pales by comparison. ... Full Review

Casino Royale" is one of 2006's best adult entertainments. The always marvelous Judi Dench is most welcome as the only link to past casts, especially in a Q-less Bond, but Giancarlo Giannini is a bit bland as a duplicitous agent and the great character actor Jeffrey Wright ("Broken Flowers," "Syriana") is wasted as the CIA's entry at the gaming table. ... Full Review

Casino Royale" is not perfect. It's worth it for the audience: The first extended action sequence in "Casino Royale" has Bond racing, on foot, in pursuit of a bomb maker played by Sebastien Foucan. The action can get pretty harsh ... Full Review

Casino Royale doesn't bother with all that foolishness... And yet the film cannily places its finger on the recent troubles that this aspect of Bond mythology has had. ... Full Review

CP: Thanks for lending me your "Casino Royale" DVD, Rick, but when I tried to watch it I got an onscreen advisory that said, "This disc has been worn to the nubbin by overplaying and must be replaced." ... Full Article

THE rebooting of James Bond, begun so auspiciously with the 2006 debut of Daniel Craig in Casino Royale , takes a brave and ruthlessly successful leap forward with the cryptically titled Quantum Of Solace . ... Full Article

MUMBAI: Secret agent James Bond is again on a hot pursuit.The latest franchise movie Quantum of Solace , starring Daniel Craig, has set US box office on fire. ... Full Article

HOLLYWOOD, CA (Hollywood Today) 11/6/08 - James Bond blasted his way into box-office Heaven this weekend mowing down an estimated $70.4 million from 3451 shoot-outs, by far the biggest opening for the 007 franchise ever, beating not only Pierce Brosnan's... ... Full Article

It appears that "Casino Royale" was a Bond masterpiece after all.Well at least comparing it to the latest one, "Quantum of Solace." The latter fails to surprise us from all points of view, falling back into routine with this... ... Full Article