Casino Royale
November 14, 2006 in theaters
Le Chiffre, a banker to the world's terrorists, is scheduled to participate in a high-stakes poker game in Montenegro, where he intends to use his winnings to establish his financial grip on the terrorist market. M sends Bond—on his maiden mission as a 00 Agent—to attend this game and prevent Le Chiffre from winning. With the help of Vesper Lynd and Felix Leiter, Bond enters the most important poker game in his already dangerous career.
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"Do I look like I need a reason to shoot?"
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The free-running chase through a Madagascar construction site was performed almost entirely by David Belle, the founder of parkour.
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The most complete reinvention in the franchise's history -- a film that stripped Bond back to his first mission, his first emotional wound, and his first loss, and found something the series hadn't had since the early Connery era: genuine dramatic stakes. Daniel Craig's physicality and emotional opacity suited the new register exactly, and the poker sequences sustain real tension without a single explosion. A film that proved the franchise could be genuinely good rather than merely entertaining.
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