James Bond: Casino Royal

[pino]

I've heard it's just about the best Bond film ever although I haven't yet seen it.

How many beers you had on you when you've heard that ? :

[Daniel]

I think it was good Although I think the Casino scenes went on for a bit too long

[555-04Q2]

All I can say is if that is the best the JB franchise can offer these days, good luck to it for the future

I am a huge JB fan and have all of the movies but this movie is the first JB movie I have not enjoyed

[Schultz]

This film is one of the best. Actually I think it was better than every single Brosnan movie. Daniel Craig was believable and yes, the action scenes were not over the top either. Some classic Bond moments too. The chick from the treasury department, and Bond's first conversation was a good example.

I really was not expecting much from this film as it seems these days when a sequal or the next movie in a line of movies comes out, they seem to be disappointing. I even remember suggesting this would be the worst movie I have ever seen. Quite surprisking. A must see if you ask me

[Daniel]

Good summary. I just fail to see what else people were expecting from the movie tbh. Perhaps in the minds of some people it's just not possible to make something better now than it was 20 or 30 years ago? I just don't get what people were expecting to see? Sean Connery?????? It was real, it was gritty, it was a Bond movie and Daniel Craig was 100% believable!

[Dave B]

There has been practically universal acclaim from the critics.

You really should know better than to take critics' opinions seriously: they're directly proportional to the film's marketing budget and how much of it gets spent plying reviewers with freebies and interviews.

One or two of the tabloids who have given saturation coverage to the Bond movie, for example, have seen their showbiz editors taken on holiday - oops sorry, on a research trip - to the film's location.

I've given up on Bond films. They were always tongue-in-cheek harmless romps, but since the Austin Powers trilogy poked fun at them they've been getting steadily further up their own backsides, substituting humour and storylines with increasingly far-fetched set pieces, with the flimsiest of plots to link them together.

I'll probably get the DVD, but I'm not subjecting my backside to three hours in a cinema for this.

[Daniel]

You really should know better than to take critics' opinions seriously: they're directly proportional to the film's marketing budget and how much of it gets spent plying reviewers with freebies and interviews.

One or two of the tabloids who have given saturation coverage to the Bond movie, for example, have seen their showbiz editors taken on holiday - oops sorry, on a research trip - to the film's location.

I've given up on Bond films. They were always tongue-in-cheek harmless romps, but since the Austin Powers trilogy poked fun at them they've been getting steadily further up their own backsides, substituting humour and storylines with increasingly far-fetched set pieces, with the flimsiest of plots to link them together.

I'll probably get the DVD, but I'm not subjecting my backside to three hours in a cinema for this.

Give it a go Dave. It's only 2.5 hours

I liked the fact that the movie wasn't as predictable as a lot of other Bond movies have been recently.

[J4MIE]

Have to agree with pino on this one

Is it just me that thinks jumping from crane to crane is "believable"? I do admit though that I was hanging onto my seat at that point, mainly because I had fallen asleep and woke up and wasn't quite sure what was happening :

As for the story.... did anything happen?

...running and managing to keep up the length of the airport with a madman in a fuel tanker? The girl giving him the electro-whatsit and then him saying "oh, hello". Sure - very believable....

[Dave B]

Give it a go Dave. It's only 2.5 hours

I'm busy tonight (Omid Djalili ). Tomorrow I'm washing my hair. Wednesday, well it's fajita night. Thursday I'm at a Madness concert. Friday isn't good for me. Saturday I'm having my annual bath.

You get the idea...

[J4MIE]

...and it was too long too, a lot of people walked out but I managed to resist... just!

I'm just glad that my mum paid and not me!! :