Casino Royale

2006

Taking some tips from the early Sean Connery years (and a few notes from the Bourne movies), Daniel Craig’s inaugural 007 outing immediately establishes this version of James Bond as ruthless: From the moment we see him handily dispatch an informant in a restroom and gun down a double-crossing agency chief, we know this is someone who’ll make good use of a license to kill. Craig’s suave yet brutish Bond was a shaken, not stirred, freshblood infusion for Ian Fleming’s hero, and this re

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