I gave it a 9 & 1/2. A bit long & not enough boobs, but still very good.

I'll see that soon. Newsweek say in the movie Mr. Bond is no longer superman. How true is that? I did not used to like Brosnan's Bond with all those gadgets and buttons.

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I'd say he's much closer to Superman than Brosnan, Dalton, or Moore. Way more physical & tough. I had to watch 'all' of Goldeneye before accepting Brosnan as Bond. Only took 10 minutes for the new guy.

Less gadgets it's true. Didn't really miss em though.

I saw 'Casino Royale' last night and actually enjoyed it....

Daniel Craig is very good - he doesn't fall into the trap of trying to 'be' Sean Connery. The action sequences are exciting and all the better for ditching virtually all of the gadgetry and gimmicks. C/B is right, it could benefit from being cut by half-an-hour and huge suspension of disbelief is needed but hey - it's a Bond movie !

And a theatre-full of people all emerged after the movie, grinning and discussing scenes - and you don't often see that these days.....

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It's true he isn't invincible anymore, Bond actually makes quite a few mistakes in the film. I think it's propably the most realistic Bond-film ever made. Craig was very good in every aspect, but especially in the action scenes. Overall I think the film was a bit too long and the last half hour was considerably less interesting than the rest of the movie. The one thing that was really shocking in the film was what I consider to be the most terrifying torture scene ever made. I thought I was going to cry. Truly horrible. But quite a good film nonetheless [img]tongue.gif[/img]

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It seems most of us are on the same page, last part of movie worst part. Even Ebert & Roper mentioned it being a bit too long. I rented Die another day last nite & it reminded me of Roger Moore era, to much gadgetry & the surfing scene in Iceland was absurd.

& the bad guy is CR was pretty good. The girls in Goldeneye were hotter though.

i thoroughly enjoyed the new james bond film, the last half hour was fairly dull, but i would rate the movie 9 out of a scale of 1 to 10

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Somewhere I read Brosnan wanted more than 20 million & that rubbed the producers the wrong way. he should thank his lucky stars he got to play the role.

Ooh er...a double-take moment - it seems the new James Bond has bought the house two doors away from me. Got out of my car this morning to find myself face-to-face with 007 ( and managed not to say anything silly.... [img]redface.gif[/img] )

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Yeah, you didn't know I was going to be you're new neighbour did you Martin

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Well, all I can say is - that's a nice car you've got.....

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Casino Royale has shot past the worldwide record for a James Bond movie, thanks mostly to a strong international performance over the Christmas holiday weekend, reports Variety.

The 21st 007 installment earned $14.5 million at 6,300 theaters overseas during the weekend through Sunday, lifting the foreign total to $304.4 million -- the 41st biggest international gross of all time. It's only the fourth 2006 movie to clear $300 million, joining Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest, The Da Vinci Code and Ice Age: The Meltdown.

With domestic gross near $144 million, Casino has a worldwide total of $448 million -- $17 million better than Die Another Day, the previous best Bond performer.

I loved it! One thing though, the LAST 2 minutes were not boring! Totally new for a bond movie. Big thumbs up.

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Heck, I would've been happy if he got the 25 million & the girl on his own island as an ending.