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...
RollingStone.com
It would have been enough just inserting a fresh face, Daniel Craig, as 007 in "Casino Royale" to give a whole new look and feel to the James Bond franchise.
Yet taking the world's greatest spy back to his roots as a raw, impressionable brute whose cockiness at times fails him and who can lose his heart to a woman was a keen stroke of intelligence...
Canada.com
They said Daniel Craig's ears stuck out. They called him "Mr. Potato Head." They jeered when, traveling by motorboat to meet the press, he wore a life preserver over his dinner jacket. They spread the rumor that he didn't know how to drive a stick shift.
But now even the meanest-spirited, most Sean Connery-nostalgic carpers seem to have been charmed out of their bad attitudes by Craig's actual performance as James Bond in the latest Bond film, "Casino Royale." The movie had its premier here on Tuesday night, but critics who have seen it already have barely been able to contain their lustful enthusiasm for the actor.
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