Casino Royale


Fun, action-filled. Not the best James Bond movie perhaps, nor the best James Bond actor, but still a lot of fun to watch. Suffered from being too long ...

... after about half the movie, after an almost-climactic point in the plot, I started thinking "this movie is long". That's not a good sign -- I'm supposed to be so engrossed in the story, so suspended in disbelief, that I've forgotten the "real world" in favor of the silver screen. Not here though. The storywriters seemed to have a hard time ending the movie. And ultimately, it doesn't end on a clean note. The sort-of mastermind, a minor character in the movie, is seemingly caught, but we have no idea of his background, no character development. What was he up to? Why? Why blow up something in Madagascar?

It just didn't seem to be well-written. Filmed much more for the new Bond actor, and the action. And, there was action aplenty. The funnest, though, was probably the beginning, which showcased a new action-form known as parkour (akin to "free-running", and looking a lot like Jackie Chan dashing around, leaping over and through, and flipping about), acted by none other than parkour co-founder Sebastian Foucan.

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Posted: Thu - November 23, 2006 at 02:13 PM

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