21st film and Danial Craigs first. A reboot of the series as Bond is given his 00-license by killing an informant selling information from within the MI6. His first mission is to get a bomb maker in Madagascar which leads him to the Bahamas... is it the 3rd or 4th time we are in the Bahamas? And that leads to Miami where a terrorist organisation plan to bomb a new prototype airplane to tank the stocks of the company and win by betting against it. Bond stops that and the man with the money is in trouble. Le Chiffre as he is know is the treasury of an unknown organisation that take cares of terrorist groups money and lets them get it from everywhere in the world. And he gambled the money on the stock market and now the customers want their money back so he arrange a card game at the Casino Royale to get 150 million dollars to pay off the debt, the MI6 sends in 007 as their player.
So most of the tension is on the card game, throw in one assassination attempt on Le Chiffre from a dissatisfied customer and another on Bond with some poisoned drinks. Bond also loses the game at one point, but the incognito CIA-agent Felix Leiter allows him to use his part of the buy-in since he isn't good enough to beat Le Chiffre. Nice to see Leiter again since License to Kill. Bonds win, but after the game he and his assistant Vesper Lynd gets kidnapped by Le Chiffre to get back the money since his organisation will have his head. And they still do since as a Mr White said before killing him, trust is very important for their organisation. Bond is rescued, believes that their contact man Mathis betrayed them and gets him taken by the MI6 for questioning. 007 and Lynd goes on holliday in Venice... also for the 3rd or 4th time. Turns out that Lynd was the snitch as she was black mailed by the organisation and she dies in a shoot out in a sinking house. Ends when Bond confronts Mr White who is the man behind it all.
It was way better than the Pierce-movies, and I think it might be that it doesn't have the obvious fake effects like the missiles, explosions and paragliding in Iceland. It even have decent behind the scenes documentaries with Bond and the producers. The main title song don't move me, but the soundtrack works rather well. Still not as good as the older movies. M is still Judy Dench, but no Q or Moneypenny. Also, the threat is grounded in terrorism and a shadowy organisation behind them all. Good enough for me. Stock market gambling and all that still works and you shall never use company funds for your own pleasures. And you especially don't gamble with them. Especially more fun after the GameStop stockmarket debacle at the beginning of 2021.
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