Casino Royale (2-Disc Full Screen Edition)
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Actor: Daniel Craig, Eva Green, Jeffrey Wright, Judi Dench, Mads MikkelsenDirector: Martin Campbell
Brand: Sony
Producer: Andrew Noakes
Producer: Anthony Waye
Producer: Barbara Broccoli
Writer: Ian Fleming
Writer: Neal Purvis
Writer: Paul Haggis
Writer: Robert Wade
DVD: Region Code 99
Audio: English (Unknown), Dolby Digital 5.1; English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 5.1; French (Dubbed), Unknown; Spanish (Dubbed), Dolby Digital 5.1
Format: AC-3, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD, Full Screen, NTSC, Subtitled
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 144 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2007-03-13
Audience Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Studio: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Product features:
- Condition: New
- Format: DVD
- AC-3; Closed-captioned; Color; Dolby; Dubbed; DVD; Full Screen; Subtitled; NTSC
Movie Reviews of Casino Royale (2-Disc Full Screen Edition)
Movie Review: The Best Bond Of Them All?
Summary: 5 Stars
"Casino Royale" represented a new start for a franchise that desperately needed one. And that meant a fresh, new idea had to be injected into the series.
The new idea was two fold: Recreate the very charecter of James Bond in order to get back the younger viewers, while pleasing the "core" group of 007 fans by going back to Fleming's original charecter; His novels portrayed a hard drinking, chain smoking "double-0" agent of MI6, who had a "License To Kill", and used it when commanded to by "M", all powerful head of Britain's Secret Service. Fleming's Bond had absolutely no guilt or remorse for bringing about the death of another, when necessary. Bond used woman like he used his gun: no guilt, no shame. He didn't trust woman (or anyone for that matter), and knew that he was not much more than a very efficient tool for M.
The movies never really grasped the entire complexity of the charecter, nor was there, in the entire history of the franchise, an actor who really fit the Bond that Fleming had described (Read the first few pages of Ian Fleming's "Casino Royale", and you'll see what I mean).
Now I know I just angered a whole bunch of Sean Connery fans, but as well as Connery played the part, he neither "looked" like Bond, or acted like the ruthless, almost soul-less 007 from the novels.
Roger Moore almost ruined the James Bond charecter by portraying him as a parody of himself, practictly every hair in place. Although the films still made money, they started becoming predictable and boring, and I, a huge Bond fan of the novels and films, stopped going to them.
Pierce Brosnan and his interpertation of James Bond, was kind of like Roger Moore and Sean Connery put together. The plots were somewhat better, but the Hero, with his ever expanding arsenal of gadgets that would always save him, or the girl, just in the nick of time. I watched the films, but I continued to re-read the novels, as the stories more than held up 50 years later, and I loved the Bond of the novels.
I must admit, I sort of enjoyed Brosnan's turn as 007, but it was one of those "guilty pleasure" kind of things. I know longer reccomended Bond films to my friends, or even admitted seeing them.
Apparently, I wasn't the only one, and producers Wilson and Broccili must have sensed this.
Because what they did, was go back to the book. "Casino Royale", Fleming's first Bond adventure, was, and still is one of the most exciting.
After aquiring the rights for Casino Royale (the film had been once before, as a spoof of 007. A precurser to Austin Powers), the search was on for a new, younger actor to play 007 as he first earned his "00" status.
Daniel Craig IS James Bond in Casino Royale.
A finer actor to play Ian Fleming's James Bond, there has never been.
The film, as true to the book as the producers could be 53 years after initial publication, is the best Bond movie of the series.
The charecter as portrayed by Craig, is everything Fleming must have wanted when he wrote the novels. Raw, gritty, and fearless. The best Bond of all.
While I would have liked a little more on the "Extra Features" part of the two-disc set, the print is crisp, the sound amazing.
A must for any Bond fan, or ANY fan of the spy genre.
Summary of Casino Royale (2-Disc Full Screen Edition)
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