I had finally watched the lastest 007 movies. I am a great fan of all James Bond movies. I had watched every JB movies.
Daniel Craig is the latest actor casting as James Bond. I find him ok. My all-times favourite James bond were still Sean Connery and Pierce Brosnan. I disliked the movie casting George Lazenby as 007 where 007 was married. But poor geroge only get to act in one lone movie unlike Daniel whom is confirmed to be acting for 3 more JB movies.
I do not like the plot of Casino Royale actually. (warning: spoilers included)
1) No Q. I loved the High-tech equipment used in the other movies. However, the director decided to be 'original'.
2) 007 was poisoned during a casino competition. I am amazed that he still can re-enter the game unaffected by the poison accumlating in his immune system. 007 is still a normal human, not superman. I will not be surprised if superman is poisoned and yet still can fly after villians, after all, superman is not a human.
3) Should 007 ever be so stupid as to give up his job for a woman? Vesper actually make James give up his job. In this site, it mentioned that James gave up his job because of the torture Le Chiffre done to him. I think it was not very clear in the movie why james decided to quit. My major guess is Vesper is the reason as at the time he submitted his resignation letter, he was in the yatch with vesper. Then what are they going to be doing for a living after James quited his job? somemore they still can afford to sail in a yatch. I do not think the money won at the casino by james can lasted forever. Of couse, vesper died in the end. All the woman that James loved died. Tracy, James only wife died in On Her Majesty's Secret Service. Vesper died indirectly because of James too. The other bond girl in the movie, Solange died too.
4) I hated the torturing part of 007. It really turned me off to see a WW2 torture method still existing in the 21st century.
5) I did not actually know what the villians in this movie were doing. Unlike the earlier James Bond movies where the villians' intention were very clear, i find the villians in this movie stupid. Le, the main villian was stupid enough to invest in a failed mission to bomb the plane in the airport(if the airport lose money, Le will have made major earning in his investment) and thus losing his money. If Le was already earning big money from terrorists, why is there any need to bomb a newly launched airplane.
6) Woman is never stupid but the movie said otherwise. At another scene, one of the terrorists theatened to cut off the arms of Le's girlfriend,Valenka. Le did not protested or begged the guy not to do so. Later, Valenka still helped her boyfriend to poison James. Is she bird-brained or love-idiot? After all the earlier life or death situation, she will still be so willing to try to do tasks for her boyfriend. Maybe Valenka hoped that if her BF won, she will got the money as payback. After all, some real life 'beauties' are known to be after the money of the wealthy and not for love. That is also the reason why newspaper must always mentioned some big-shot so and so married a millionaire. Is it for love or for money? It is the big question mark in everyone's mind.
7) When James was poisoned and did not managed to put the wire back to the heart beat device and nearly died, Vesper came along at the most critical time to save him. of course, if James died, it will be the end of the story and worse still, no more james bond movies. I think i am reading too much of harry potter where harry was predicted to die in the final book 7 so i find it so connivent of the director to have an angel appearing all of a sudden. It would be better if the movie can have vesper upon seeing james leaving the table suddenly, get worried and decided to follow James. But NO... Vesper suddenly appeared to save James. maybe the director assumed we will know that vesper was worried and decided to check on James.
8) with so many filming mistakes made, isn't it 'fun' to try to spot all of them? but anyway i did not noticed any of the mistakes spotted by the site. But i though it will be nice to watch the movie again and try to spot them. It reminded me of a childhood game where you need to spot the differences between two pictures.
Ok..i would like to apologise for listing a whole lists of why i do not liked this movie. I do loved all the earlier movies except the one by George. But after a break of 2 years from the last movie, i though this movie will be more exciting. My favourite JB movies are 'from russia with love' and ' tomorrow never die'. And i loved michelle yeoh as the bond girl, she is the only bond girl that can fight.
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