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[rosaklebhead]

Not sure if this should be moved to another thread but it's from the Village Voice and they are notoriously picky/critical/highminded against anything "hollywood" or not "artsy-fartsy." Basically, they hate everything everyone loves and vice versa.

So check out their take:

http://villagevoice....y,75033,20.html

Royale Flush
The Bond franchise takes a gamble on a new guy and comes up aces

by Robert Wilonsky
November 14th, 2006 2:34 PM


Bond breaks a sweat: Daniel Craig
photo: Sony Pictures
Casino Royale
Directed by Martin Campbell
Sony Pictures
Opens November 17

By all rights, 2002's Die Another Day should have and could have been the final James Bond film. It was packaged like a cynical, weary best-of concert coughed up by an aging dinosaur, offering copious nods to the franchise's past without bothering to offer any new material of consequence. Yet here we are, not only prolonging the franchise but at its very beginning: the third attempt to perfect Casino Royale, the very first book in Ian Fleming's series, which began in 1953.
Set in the present day, this kinetic, character-driven take is nonetheless intended to serve as the origin story of 007—an introduction to the "mal-adjusted young man," as one love interest refers to him, who grows up to inherit a license to kill from Her Royal Highness.

And of course, Royale is intended to kick-start a moribund big-screen series that's had more low points than high. Yet to say Casino Royale ranks among the best Bond offerings is not intended as backhanded praise.

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[Mister Asterix]

Thanks for posting. Great review. (The mod in me shortened the copy paste.)