The Casino Royale / Daniel Craig Thread

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This was a fantastic movie. Gone are the eye-rolling pyrotechnics and the new Bond actually looks like he can win a streetfight.

The first half was what everyone wants in a Bond film. The second half really sets up the Bond character as we've known him. It was a bit long and even I wondered why there seemed to be no ending in sight but it was rewarded with some closure and by the end of the film, the Bond you see is the Bond shaped by everything he's gone through.

Daniel Craig is right up there with Connery. I wasn't sure what I'd thought about the casting when I first heard it but he has the badassness none of the Bonds have had and is slightly less smooth than Connery but that still says a lot.

Thank God they saved this franchise...watching Bond movies was like watching those awful, terrible Schumacher Batman movies.

I highly recommend this movie...it's probably the best action movie I've seen since Batman Begins and it is better than that, IMO.