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Directed by Martin Campbell. With Daniel Craig, Eva Green, Judi Dench, Jeffrey Wright. After earning 00 status and a licence to kill, Secret Agent James Bond sets out on his first mission as 007. Bond must defeat a private banker funding terrorists in a high-stakes game of poker at Casino Royale, Montenegro.

I think you absolutely cannot cut one of the greatest uses of physical exposition in our generation. I truly believe that cutting the first real action scene would undercut what makes Casino Royale such an incredibly memorable Bond film. Check out this awesome video about the scene by Lessons from the Screenplay on YouTube if you get a chance.

Bond is back.This April, Daniel Craig will return to play 007. We're now into Craig's fifth - and most probably final - outing as Bond, so by now he knows a thing or two about building muscle.

Written in 1952, Casino Royale was the first thriller featuring a spy named James Bond. Fleming wrote it from personal experience (as well as his imagination). For example, there is a scene almost at the start of the book where two hit men are sent to kill Bond. They have two weapons - a bomb and a powerful smoke grenade, one hidden in a red.

Casino Royale is a major step-up from the flamboyant Die Another Day. Pierce Brosnan has been replaced by a young-ish Daniel Craig, there is no Q, no campy gadgets, no silly naked women silhouettes in the opening credits, no world-dominating super-colossus villains, no Miss Funnyfanny (or whatever), and no silly one-liners after killing bad guys. Basically everything that can date Bond film.

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Fresh as it is, Casino Royale doesn't shirk in delivering the vital elements of the franchise - the action for one is top-notch. After the standard animated opening (backed with a sub-standard.