ProduktrezensionenCasino Royale (DVD, 2007) (Spanish\Czech\Hungarian)

Fast moving action and excitement !

Action from the very start in this first outing for Daniel Craig as Bond !

The Hero has to absolve himself in order to aquire his Damsel

I bought this product as the film overall was a good action film.The acting was good,the pace kept you interested and a good finish typical of bond films.As an updated version of bond thrillers it was well produced with a good cast.for my taste there was nothing to dislike about the film,if you like an action film without an overdose of fantasy fighting would recommend watching.Vollständige Rezension lesen...

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Perfect

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best bond for years

this movie is super slick has a great baddie ace chases and fights my favourite bit is the poisoning episode totally brilliant

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lots of excitement and suspense you can live through the film if you want to a thoroughly enjoyable film with a lot of human touches as well will watch a few times more and i will enjoy them all just as muchVollständige Rezension lesen...

Casino Royale

Now that even the red states have voted to increase the minimum wage to over seven dollars an hour, what would you think of a person willing to work for less than that minimum with the expectation of receiving tips amounting to six-tenths of one percent of the dollars spent? The gratuity is given without histrionics, in fact, let your mind wander and you may not notice it. It’s a result of a poker pot with $115,000,000 in chips on the table. The winner of this entire amount, James Bond (Daniel Craig), slips the croupier his tip: a chip that the dealer can turn in for one million dollars. Not bad for a night’s work.

There’s nothing penny-ante about Martin Campbell’s royal treatment of people who play for big bucks in “Casino Royale,” which is a prequel to Bond’s career taking him back to his earning the double-oh designation from his boss, M (Judi Dench). Getting M’s imprimatur required his killing two enemies of the state. Though it’s based on the Ian Fleming novel, Campbell’s pic, adapted for the screen by Paul Haggis, Neal Purvis, and Robert Wade, includes cell phones, and 3-D computer graphics, recent inventions that do not quite match the wow factor of the gadgets that Sean Connery’s Bond depended on.

Whether this new, stylish, and completely modern version will reinforce your love for 007 or turn you away will depend on whether you can stand a few substitutions. For one, there really is no Bond girl this time, “girl” meaning “bimbo.” Instead, 007 partners up with a woman, Vesper Lynd (Eva Green), who thinks that brains are the most important sex organ, quite a challenge for a guy whose witty one-liners probably could not cut much ice with a female associate who probably cut her teeth on Spinoza. For another, though the fancy cars still abound, they do not come equipped with cool devices such as a rear exhaust that can temporarily blind the path of those that follow. Nor does Bond’s Omega watch do much other than tell time. Still a third, the villain is not a Cold War demon who puts a plague on both houses, the American and the Soviet, but a band of terrorists who buy weapons for a great deal of money and expect payment on time. Finally, we have to do without a Bond of unmatched finesse, one who could draw a latte in seconds and insists that his martinis are shaken, not stirred. Daniel Craig, an impossibly handsome and manly British actor whose best film to date is Matthew Vaughn’s “Layer Cake” in which his character, XXXX learns that he has no control over his life or the lives of the people around him. (In a small role this year, he fares well as Perry Smith, a cold-blooded killer in
Douglas McGrath’s “Infamous”).

Beautifully lensed by Phil Meheux in the Bahamas, Prague, Lake Como and a crumbling Venice, “Casino Royale” opens with a black-and-white sequence to introduce us to the two assassinations that resulted in Bond’s being granted the double-oh sobriquet. The grant comes with a harsh criticism from his boss, a slightly ruffled M–whose role in this pic does not begin to compare with her Oscar-worthy performance as an English high-school teacher in Richard Eyre’s “Notes on a Scandal.”

In the principal yarn, Bond teams up with Vesper Lynd, as calculating a person as 007 who from the starts resists his sexual overtures. Their aim is to bankrupt Le Chiffre (Mads Mikkelsen) in a high-stakes poker game in Montenegro, thereby preventing him from paVollständige Rezension lesen...

NOT like the previous comedy

Ok, so i'm not a film critic, and didnt get to see at the flicks, so was looking forwards to seeing it when it eventually came out on DVD. Having been amused greatly by the Peter Sellers Version (bought that too!) Its not what a lot of us expected, sure, it was hyped as a 'completely different' Bond, and it was indeed, most action packed Bond in a very long time, even allowing for interpretaions of that to include what was 'action packed' with limited special effects in the 60's and beyond. I mean, would you think you'd see Sean Connery sprinting up the top of a crane at hundreds of feet up without a bit of visual help from the editing suite? But my jaw DID drop in quite a few places, it WAS a complete culture shock to what had preceded this film, and you know what? I enjoyed it. Nothing about saying it took BOnd to a new 'level' whether it did or not, it was brilliant. You can even see snippets of the 'serious' side of the story of the original Casino Royale, but the baddie was badder, the girls at least on a par, the money was in same copious amounts and he even fell in love (after a fashion) and managed to destroy a lot of surrounding buildings in spectacular fashion while managing to keep a hairs breadth from a cocrete block landing on his head, which was again different from destroying the inside of a volcano or the odd submarine pen. It looks like im going to have to get the DVD of Quantum again this time as not been able to get to the flicks to see that, but hopefully will enjoy that one, but like I say, not a critic, neither like or dislike Bond movies, but if you like action films, I dont think you'll go wrong watching this, as it doesn' numb the bum as it were!Vollständige Rezension lesen...

Casino royale, worth a gamble

James Bond gets a massive shunt in the right direction with Casino Royale. The 21st installment of the world's longest and most prolific running movie series strips away the gadgetry to focus on action and character, introducing a younger, tougher James Bond (Daniel Craig) attempting to complete his first major mission, whilst coming to terms with the brutal realities his chosen career entails. The target is terrorist banker Le Chiffre (Mads Mikkelsen), whom our hero must defeat in a high stakes poker game at the swanky Casino Royale in Montenegro.

First things first: Daniel Craig is not a good Bond. He's a great Bond. Specifically, he is the personification of Ian Flemings original super agent - a professional killing machine, charming yet cold-hearted, a patriot with a taste for luxury. Craig is the first actor to really nail 007's defining characteristics. Craig is Bond.

A strong, well defined story, some unexpected betrayals and hidden corners, sensational locations and an absence of gadgets make Casino Royale a right royal Bond movie.Vollständige Rezension lesen...

Casino Royale

Sean Connery has always been James Bond for me, and probably always will be but Daniel Craig runs him a very close second in this, the latest Bond movie. Almost without trying Craig slips into the 007 profile as though he had done it for years and will have made the role his own with this performance.

The story line is credible which is more than can be said for the previous version of this Ian Fleming book with Peter Sellers, although I have always had an eye for Ursula Andress.

The special effects on this movie are very credible whereas latterly some of the previous Bond movies had taken special effects to the "almost unbelievable" level.

I also liked the lack of bad language and acceptable levels of violence which made this a thoroughly enjoyable family film which I would recommend to all.Vollständige Rezension lesen...