Daniel Craig takes the mantel of 007 and runs like a wild beast with it in a reboot to the 45 year old James Bond franchise. What you get is a rougher, grittier, inexperienced Bond whose ego gets in the way of the mission at times.Casino Royale opens with Bond achieving double "o" status and going on a mission to extract information from a bomb maker. As the story unfolds he ends up playing a high stakes card game set up by terrorist accountant Le Chiffre (Mads Mikkelsen) to pay of the losses he has collected while gambling with his clients money. Eva Green plays Bond's treasury liaison Versper Lynd who is there to monitor Bond's government staked card playing.
This isn't your daddies James Bond. There are no gadgets really, no Q. No Moneypenny. This is a young Bond who isn't quite sure of himself yet will be damned if he'll let you know about it. This Bond bleeds. It rains in this Bond's world. Daniel Craig has redefined a mythic character for the new millennium. Some purists would say that this isn't James Bond and it isn't Connery or Moore. It's a style all its own, forged in the 2000's.
Casino Royale is not only a great James Bond film, but a great movie in general. It's characters and storyline as top notch and play out wonderfully up on the screen. I was cynical about a blonde Bond, but I see that I was wrong. Hopefully Craig can continue the greatness that Casino Royale started.
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