Movie: Casino Royale, 2006, starring Daniel Craig as James Bond. Header: "James Bond enters a high stakes poker game with a man who finances terrorist."
Well let me say right off the bat, for me there is no Bond, James Bond, shaken not stirred, except Sean Connery. No one can ever replace him.
Daniel Craig is totally unsuitable to play the part of Bond. He looks like a Marine drill sgt. with a scruffy haircut. He is not suave, not handsome, not self assured. The movie begins with Bond getting a hostile verbal lashing from "M" played by Judi Dench--who's also totally unsuitable for the part. He takes this dressing down from her like a schoolboy who has been the subject of too many wedgies from bullying schoolmates. Phew!

A wimpy James Bond? No quips? No double entendres? No clever repartee?What's worse, after he's captured in a set up auto accident, he swears undying love (Bond!!) to a woman who steals money from him, turns out to be a double agent, and a p*ssy whipped Bond resigns from Her Majesty's Secret Service. A tender helpless Bond? What kind of Bond is that?
Nope, give me the Sean Connery Bond of Goldfinger or Diamonds are forever. The Bond who in a crematorium with smoke coming up around him comes to as the fire is stopped and he is rolled out--he has given the villans fake diamonds. He gets up, dusts off his lapels, smoothes his hair down and walks away as impeccable as ever. Or the Bond who is at a crap table and a bimbo walks up and says chirpily "Hi, my name is Plenty--Plenty O'Toole!" Bond: "Named after your father perhaps?"

Anyway I'm glad I didn't pay to go to a theatre to see Casino Royale--what a bummer.
susil