Casino Royale ** INLINE SPOILERS **

[katyseagull]

Just saw it on Friday. Totally agree with LOTD about the song in the opening credits. It sucked. Thank god the movie was better than the song.

Daniel Craig is cool! and intense, and oddly sexy, and unpredictable, and a very, very good fighter. Freakin tenacious is what he is. I’m not sure I was keeping up with the plot though. It seemed a little confusing to me. I don’t know much about poker but the poker game seemed kind of dumb. I guess I agree with diebitter that the game was a little flat. I was really surprised they didn't try to make it more exciting.

Anyway, this movie was very much fun and I wasn’t bored, mostly just confused. Not sure I was entirely sold on the romance thing either between him and the girl. Did anyone else buy it? I thought it wasn’t as intense and passionate as I would have liked. Don’t get me wrong, she is breathtaking and the camera really loves her. I just wanted more.

Daniel Craig is just ridiculously intense. He would need an extremely feisty, intelligent girl to tame him. I liked the part where he was rolling around on the floor with that guy’s wife. Wow. We needed a lot more of that kind of action in this movie is what I think. He is very watchable.

[RunDownHouse]

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What was supposed to be in the suitcase at the end? Please don't tell me it was $120M!! Also, I thought that the top prize was $150M- did they take $30M in rake??? That's Harrahsesque.

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They mentioned once that it was $115M, and a few times that it was $120M, if I remember right. I figured they just had some people that didn't rebuy. The CIA guy, for example, might not have rebought for the $5M since he knew he was a dog at the table.

[Wynton]

I saw this over the weekend and agree it's the best Bond movie in a very long time.

But while I thought Craig was quite good - and a huge improvement over recent choices - I still prefer Connery. Basically, I think Connery is equally plausible, just as tough (in the context of the villains he faced), and at the same time more likeable.

One thing that bothered me in this film was the romance, which I really didn't buy. Craig didn't persuade me that he actually cared about what's her name.

[Jeff_B]

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What was supposed to be in the suitcase at the end? Please don't tell me it was $120M!! Also, I thought that the top prize was $150M- did they take $30M in rake??? That's Harrahsesque.

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You may want to look it this . It was obvious not USD.

Only thing I can think of is was some sort of bond ?

Edit to add: I thought the exact same thing. Inflation is evil.

[ianlippert]

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I just saw it. While, all in all, I definitely enjoyed the movie and think it's one of the better Bond films, there's a je ne sais quoi that bothered me about it. It wasn't anything in particular, like the poker, which did suck (to be expected), but it was just throughout the entire film. I will definitely be thinking about this, trying to find what about the film was rubbing me the wrong way. I might have to see it again to figure it out.


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I just saw it last night and I'm gonna have to agree here. The guy who played bond was awesome, the action was awesome, the poker was decent, double cross at the end was pretty predictable once you find out that old was working for scar eye. I think the thing I didnt like was the whole premise of the movie was kind of lame. Basically some evil guy loses a ton of money on the stock market and bond has to stop him from getting the poker money because it is going to be used to fund terrorism. How lame is that? No evil genius trying to blow up the world, just general terrorism.

[pc in NM]

In the final hand, I thought they sacrificed accuracy for dramatic effect - they had the players show their hands in reverse order - the side pots should have shown first, and the main pot last....

Since they switched from baccarat to Hold'em in response to the poker craze, I think they missed an opportunity for some typical Bond movie tongue-in-cheek humor. (Like having Richard Branson stuck in screening at the airport - did you notice that one?) I think they should have included a known poker personality (Helmuth, Brunson, etc.) playing in the game - it would have been hilarious if Hellmuth threw a tantrum if Bond or the villian had eliminated him - funnier still if he got rubbed out.....

[BobOjedaFan]

BobOjedaFan's Take on This Movie.....

OK, I saw this movie last night, wow. Although I'm usually able to predict the end of movies, I honestly have to say I did not see the end coming. Maybe I was blinded because I liked the Eve Green character too much, but I was really surprised, everyone here says it was obvious, but wow I just didn't see it. I was also under the impression that his Bond movie was to be a 1 time deal like 'Never Say Never Again', so I thought it would have a tidied up/happy ending.

Anyway, the end of this movie IMO also made this movie. The whole movie I thought Craig was a huge douchebag and couldn't get into his romance at all because I thought he
was just a cold hearted ass. Originally I blamed this on bad acting by Craig to come off THAT COLD but the end made it all make sense. It was all part of his character development when he finnally sheds all of his armor/[censored] because he has fallen in love. Seeing him shaking the bars of the cage trying to save the girl who is obviously already dead almost made me want to cry, wow what a finish. This movie was so much different than other Bonds.


<u>General Things in the Movie That Were Awesome</u>
Eva Green - Even though you're evil, you can still marry me
Chase Scene Into the Embessy - lol


<u>Things That Sucked</u>
Fight Scenes weren't as cool as they generally are in Bond Films IMO
Bond bitching that he could beat the evil guy at cards hes better than him, etc etc etc, and then he beats him with an unbeatable hand vs. a practically unbeatable hand, wow that took skill

[CharlieDontSurf]

Just saw it tonight...Best Bond film I've seen.

This Bond would never have existed if Jason Bourne had never hit the screen. Its obvious that writers realized that in a Jack Bauer/Jason Bourne type world they had to create a new harder version of the slick fancy James Bond.

Eva Green never really doublecrossed him per say.

She worked for the bad guys initially to save her boyfriend.

Then after she fell in love with Bond and the frenchman was killed by Mr. White she promised to get them the money if they gave her Bond's life in return.

So technically she never betrayed Bond but aved his life twice...once with the defib and once in the ship when they were going to kill him.

The only thing is I didn't get why she intentionally killed herself at the end...unless it was just because of guilt etc.

[Borodog]

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The only thing is I didn't get why she intentionally killed herself at the end...unless it was just because of guilt etc.

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I didn't realize it until people mentioned it in this thread, but the correct answer is "Because the plot and (Bond's) character required it." Ah well.

[CharlieDontSurf]

It was a bit silly the way it was handled by the writers but was a minor blip.