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Written on Thursday, November 23, 2006 by Unknown

Casino Royale - Movie Review

"I play with guns, girls and gadgets. Who am i?"

"Bond.... James Bond"

We have grown up answering this trivial question in every other quiz shows but after Casino Royale the question (and for that matter answer) becomes dubious. Yes there is Bond .. James Bond but guns ares missing. This James Bond fights with his own hands. He does not come out of fight with his suit and ties intact. He has bruises. He has blood flowing.... like any other mortal being. No gadgets to assist him. Gone are the girls bowled by his charm. (Instead he is bowled by them to the point of leaving the job of agent 007 only to realize later that he is just a pawn in a bigger game.)

And this is precisely why Bond fails to live up to the expectation. The Bond here is not the ultimate hero. He does not come out of blues on his own rather he is plain lucky at most of times.
The character is not marked by smug confidence but a very impatience brat who keeps getting flowed by turn of events.

Alright, they say that this is the first novel and actually it is the making of James Bond but then we do not need the making of a hero after 50 years of seeing the actual hero. Go and watch it only if you are ready to digest it as a normal action movie and not a typical James Bond movie or else disappointment is in store for you.

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1 Comment

  1. MountCleverest | 1:43 PM

    when i first started watching bond movies, it had pierce brosnan as bond. I later got the chance to watch older versions too, but for me bond was and always will be brosnan.
    Nobody else has the panache and the charisma to match him yaar...
    And he had gotten so good at it, that even in a non-bond movie, The Thomas Crown Affair, he shows the same flair, and you could almost mistake it to be another Bond movie... Well almost, since he is not fighting crime in that one.

    I have seen the rushes, and Daniel Craig is not even a faint shadow of the image of Bond that Brosnan has embedded in my mind.
    I will give this one a miss for sure...

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