Bond, using help from Felix Leiter, Mathis and having Vesper pose as his wife, enters the most important poker game in his already dangerous career. The boss of MI6, known simply as M sends Bond, along with Vesper Lynd to attend this game and prevent Le Chiffre from winning. Mathis welcomes James Bond and Vesper Lynd in. He was portrayed by Italian actor Giancarlo Giannini. Based on the literary character from the 1953 Ian Fleming novel Casino Royale, the character first appeared in the 2006 eponymous sequel and its 2008 sequel, Quantum of Solace. He is participating in a poker game at Montenegro, where he must win back his money, in order to stay safe among the terrorist market. Ren Mathis was the cover name of a fictional intelligence operative of the Secret Intelligence Service (SIS/MI6). It is also the first James Bond film in which Daniel Craig portrayed 007. Le Chiffre is a banker to the world's terrorists. Casino Royale is a James Bond spy thriller movie released in 2006. James Bond goes on his first ever mission as a 00. Casino Royale is a 1,000 watt jolt to the heart of a flagging franchise, bringing Bond kicking - and frequently screaming - back to life.'Everyone has a past. You could drive an Aston Martin through the holes in the plot, and Chris Cornell's theme tune is an embarassment. 144 minutes is dangerously long for an action flick, and audiences may be restless during the protracted romantic interludes.

'CRAIG'S THE FIRST ACTOR TO REALLY NAIL 007' It's all thrilling stuff, closer in tone to The Bourne Identity than the camp quippery of old-school Bond.

Even his withered heart takes a whupping when he falls for slinky treasury agent Vesper Lynd (Eva Green). He's beaten senseless, thrown off ledges, poisoned and tortured. Bond takes a tremendous battering throughout the movie. Following his example, Martin Campbell's film hits the ground running with a breathless chase through a building site, a sequence so impressive that the rest of the action struggles to trump it. Craig is the first actor to really nail 007's defining characteristic: he's an absolute swine. Specifically, he is 007 as conceived by Ian Fleming - a professional killing machine, a charming, cold-hearted patriot with a taste for luxury. 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.įirst things first: Daniel Craig is not a good Bond. The 21st installment of the world's longest-running movie series strips away the gadgetry to focus on action and character, introducing a younger, tougher James Bond (Daniel Craig) struggling to complete his first major mission.

James Bond gets a hefty whack in the testes in Casino Royale, both literally and figuratively.

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