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Casino Royale (Widescreen) (DVD)

Daniel Craig (actor), Eva Green (actor) and Martin Campbell (director)
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Sight and Sound, 01/01/2007, p.52, "Craig is very good indeed: everything about his performance shows cunning and grace."

Ultimate DVD, 12/01/2006, p.216, 4 stars out of 5 -- "Full of witty dialogue and sly asides, CASINO ROYALE also knows how to have fun, and it does so with style and panache."

Film Comment, 01/01/2007, p.36, Ranked #20 in Film Comment's "20 Best Films Of 2006."

Rolling Stone, 11/30/2006, p.122, 3.5 stars out of 4 -- "There's one whopper of a reason why CASINO ROYALE is the hippest, highest-octane Bond film in ages, and his name is Daniel Craig."

Entertainment Weekly, 11/24/2006, p.80, "CASINO ROYALE, the most exciting Bond film since ON HER MAJESTY'S SECRET SERVICE, has everything you want in a pop entertainment: physical audacity, intrigue, romance, but also a charge of personality..." -- Grade: A

New York Times, 11/17/2006, p.E1-E19, "Mr. Craig's Bond looks as if he has renewed his license to kill....Ms. Green brings conviction to the film, as do Jeffrey Wright and Isaach de Bankole."

Entertainment Weekly, 12/29/2006, p.106, Included in Entertainment Weekly's "Top 10 Films Of The Year" -- "As 007, Daniel Craig floods the screen with personality the way the old stars did..."

Total Film, 01/01/2007, p.30, 4 stars out of 5 -- "[T]here's no disputing the icon is re-energised by Craig....Vibrant, vital and violent, when he utters the immortal final line, your neck hairs spike and your pulse pounds."

Title Note

Theatrical Release: November 17, 2006

Release Note

DVD Features:

2-Disc Set - Keep Case
Anamorphic Widescreen - 2.40
Audio:
Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround - English, Spanish, French
Subtitles - English, French, Spanish - Optional
Additional Release Material:
Documentaries - 1. "Becoming Bond"
2. "James Bond: For Real"
Featurettes - Bond Girls are Forever (2006)
Music Video - Chris Cornell - "You Know My Name"

Product Notes

After a great deal of discussion--on the part of fans and producers alike--over Daniel Craig's (THE MOTHER, MUNICH) suitability for the role of James Bond, he more than proves himself in this explosive revamping of the franchise. Under the direction of Martin Campbell (THE MASK OF ZORRO) and with Paul Haggis (CRASH) helping with the re-writes, this addition to the Bond canon manages to hold true to the essence of the stories--the villainous villains, the fabulous sets, the beautiful women, the fast-paced action--while updating the formula with subtlety and humanity.

Trading in the Cold War era for a new, post-9-11 landscape, the tale unfolds in locations that span the globe, including the Bahamas, Venice, and the Czech Republic. It opens in Madagascar, where Bond pursues a guerilla bomb-maker in one of the most breathtaking chase scenes ever--and it all takes place on foot. Botching that assignment, Bond goes to Montenegro to square off against terrorist baddie Le Chiffre (Mads Mikkelson), an international loan shark who gambles with the money of his equally dangerous clients. Beautiful British Treasury representative Vesper Lynd (Eva Green, THE DREAMERS) supplies Bond's own funds, appearing on his arm in Montenegro, while M (Dame Judi Dench, PRIDE AND PREJUDICE) keeps a close watch on the action from headquarters. The extravagant poker game forms the center of the action, with Jeffrey Wright (SYRIANA, THE MANCHURIAN CANDIDATE) putting in an intense appearance at the table; interrupting the game are assassination attempts, poisoning, and other dramatic events that keep the adrenaline pumping. The flirtation that unfolds between Bond and Vesper Lynd is only in keeping with the spy's M.O. as a ladies' man. What differs here, however, is what sets this Bond apart from the rest: the romance is taken seriously, and it exposes a vulnerability in Bond that he's never shown before. This, however, only makes him the tougher, as Craig's Bond is darker, less campy, more brooding and mysterious, than his past incarnations ever were.

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5 out of 5 stars Best Bond Ever(?!), March 7, 2008
By Cucuytem
"Casino Royale" represented a new start for a franchise that desperately needed one. And that meant a fresh, new idea had to be injected into the series. The new idea was two fold: Recreate the very charecter of James Bond in order to get back the younger viewers, while pleasing the "core" group of 007 fans by going back to Flemings original charecter His novels portrayed a hard drinking, chain smoking "double-0" agent of MI6, who had a "License To Kill", and used it when commanded to by "M", all powerful head of Britains Secret Service. Flemings Bond had absolutely no guilt or remorse for bringing about the death of another, when necessary. Bond used woman like he used his gun: no guilt, no shame. He didnt trust woman (or anyone for that matter), and knew that he was not much more than a very efficient tool for M. The movies never really grasped the entire complexity of the charecter, nor was there, in the entire history of the franchise, an actor who really fit the Bond that Fleming had described (Read the first few pages of Ian Flemings "Casino Royale", and youll see what I mean). Now I know I just angered a whole bunch of Sean Connery fans, but as well as Connery played the part, he neither "looked" like Bond, or acted like the ruthless, almost soul-less 007 from the novels. Roger Moore almost ruined the James Bond charecter by portraying him as a parody of himself, practictly every hair in place. Although the films still made money, they started becoming predictable and boring, and I, a huge Bond fan of the novels and films, stopped going to them. Pierce Brosnan and his interpertation of James Bond, was kind of like Roger Moore and Sean Connery put together. The plots were somewhat better, but the Hero, with his ever expanding arsenal of gadgets that would always save him, or the girl, just in the nick of time. I watched the films, but I continued to re-read the novels, as the stories more than held up 50 years later, and I loved the Bond of the novels. I must admit, I sort of enjoyed Brosnans turn as 007, but it was one of those "guilty pleasure" kind of things. I know longer reccomended Bond films to my friends, or even admitted seeing them. Apparently, I wasnt the only one, and producers Wilson and Broccili must have sensed this. Because what they did, was go back to the book. "Casino Royale", Flemings first Bond adventure, was, and still is one of the most exciting. After aquiring the rights for Casino Royale (the film had been once before, as a spoof of 007. A precurser to Austin Powers), the search was on for a new, younger actor to play 007 as he first earned his "00" status. Daniel Craig IS James Bond in Casino Royale. A finer actor to play Ian Flemings James Bond, there has never been. The film, as true to the book as the producers could be 53 years after initial publication, is the best Bond movie of the series. The charecter as portrayed by Craig, is everything Fleming must have wanted when he wrote the novels. Raw, gritty, and fearless. The best Bond of all. While I would have liked a little more on the "Extra Features" part of the two-disc set, the print is crisp, the sound amazing. A must for any Bond fan, or ANY fan of the spy genre.

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