{movie} casino royale (2006)

Martin Campbell (GoldenEye) directs this film adaptation (the 21st of the Bond franchise) of Ian Fleming's first novel. Daniel Craig debuts as the new Bond who takes on a corrupt financier (Mads Mikkelsen) in a showdown of Texas Hold 'Em. You'll learn Bond's back story as the action-packed film takes you to the Bahamas, Madagascar and other exotic locales. Eva Green stars as Vesper Lynd, and the sublime Judi Dench reprises her role as M.

ireviewnetflix.com rating: ** I will admit that I'm not the biggest Bond fan and I haven't seen every movie all the way through, but even I can tell that there's something different about this Bond...and I don't like it. This movie was really boring (I don't like poker at all). While Daniel Craig is very hot, the new type of Bond character he plays is not. The story was all right and my favorite scene was where Bond was poisoned and the defibrillator. Either way, Judi Dench is, as always with the recent Bonds, the real star of the movie. God, I love her. She's so amazing. Everything she touches is gold. The film had it's moments, but overall I wasn't impressed.