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In spite of the (base­less) brouhaha over Daniel Craig, Casino Roy­ale

is an admir­able addi­tion to the Bond fran­chise. After the camp and flimsy flop that was Die Another Day, the uni­verse has been rebooted to the start of James Bond’s 007 career.

After per­form­ing the neces­sary two kills required for 007 status, Bond is sent to Mad­a­gas­car to trail a ter­ror­ist bomb­maker. After a chase des­troy­ing most of a con­struc­tion site, Bond kills the bomb­maker — on film. The images are released to the inter­na­tional media, and M throws a hissy fit, ques­tion­ing her decision to pro­mote him.

The plot gal­lops for­ward lead­ing to ter­ror­ist fin­an­ci­ers, double agents, and games of Poker.

See wiki­pe­dia Blonde Ambi­tion film for a fully plot summary.

I liked the darker slant taken on Bond’s char­ac­ter. How could you not ques­tion what drives a man to devote full and faith­ful ser­vice to Queen and coun­try, where assas­sin­a­tion is all in a day’s work? Sim­ul­tan­eously though, the film is incred­ibly funny in parts, par­tic­u­larly in a tor­ture scene(!).

Over­all, 4 stars from me.

ETA: This wouldn’t be a film without product place­ment. I saw: Ford, Sony Ericsson/VAIO/Cybershot, and of course Aston Mar­tin.down­load Gojira VS Mekagojira