Casino Royale

Went to see Casino Royale last night, totally blown away!

The action was incredible, fantastic acting, excellent musicical score, DC is an amazing Bond, every location looked stunning, the audience at the cinema were clapping at the end!

I fell a bit stupid asking but I'm not quite sure i totally got the plot at the end, am I right in thinking...

Vesper was a baddy all along, working for the unnamed organisation that Le Chiffre, the eye patch guy & the man at the end were all also working for, or was she only working for them as her boyfriend had been kidnapped?
Any ideas?
 
The scene is in the finished film but is slightly cut in the UK version so I believe. One small error in what you said...
in the book his testicles are beaten with a stick, but in the film they are beaten with a rope.
Still have no desire to see the film - I still dislike Daniel Craig, and the trailer looked like a "Bourne" film rather than a Bond, and seeing as the trailers are supposed to whet your appetite it didn't work at all for me as it left me completely cold.
 
I think the idea of no Bond theme until the end was that it wasnt played as he wasnt fully established as 007 until the end so that's when the theme could finally be played and that also explains the last line said as well.
 
If so, then The Bourne Identity is a rip off of Casino Royale because the last two thirRAB of the movie, including the romance, is a very faithful (if updated) adaptation of Ian Fleming's novel written in 1952 (published in '53).
 
it isn't determined when the organization kidnapped vesper lynRAB' boyfriend, but i assume it's shortly after they know of her involvement with bond .....

but another question remains ..... why did she do what she does at the end?
THAT throws up questions!!
 
I didn't have time to read through all 9 pages of this I was just expressing my view and didn't know you had already posted that. So does this mean we can't express the same view? Are we only expected to disagree or is it just that you don't like someone else saying the same thing. I only joined this forum earlier this week I am still in single figures on postings. If we can only express different opinions I think my membership of this forum will be very short. Give me a chance for goodness sake! :eek:
 
Just want to say I glad they have left David Arnold in charge of the music on this Bond film. He has done the past 3 bond films starting on Tomorrow Never Dies and I think he has done a wonderful job in everyone.
 
A fairly middling review here. Can't say I'm looking forward to it, and as somebody who didn't like the look of the trailer for the film and doesn't rate Daniel Craig at all, I won't be seeing it.
 
Oh yes, the plot (while faithful to the book) is so unlike the others, if you didn't know the story you'd be expecting other things to happen, following the Bond generics.
 
Review from today's Sunday Times is online here. The reviewer in question normally gets things spot on and I've agreed with pretty much every one of his reviews I've read previously.
 
Firstly,Cosmo kind of shows his 'objectivity' early on,describing the entire series as tosh.

Id rather he take an objective look at just this one film.The fact that say Octopussy was bad doesnt mean anything to a Bond film of 2006 or 2020...

And secondly,from the reviews I have read,he is very much in the minority....

Lastly,you funnily enough ignore the actual official Times review by Wendy Ide who give CR 4 stars out of 5....

http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,14936-2437429,00.html
 
I am such an arse.

I spend valuable breath ranting to everyone around me that you can't have a blonde Bond and all other sorts of ill informed nonsense and then I went to see it....

It is superb.

Magnificent first action sequence, a superb Bond 'girl', great locations, Judi Dench's 'M', really unsettling villain, relentless pace etc etc etc...

And quite simply Daniel Craig is incredible. He's cold, he's warm, he's tender, he's violent, he is a three dimensional Bond.

Plus he is cinematic female viagara.
 
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