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Casino Royale (2006)

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👍 89%Google users liked it ⓘ
Critics Score
🎬 87%
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Runtime
2h 24m
Rated
PG-13
Country
United Kingdom, United States of America
Language
English
TMDB Rating
7.6/10 (11,496 votes)
Rotten Tomatoes
94%
Metacritic
80

Cast

Daniel Craig as James Bond · 73% avg
Eva Green as Vesper Lynd · 69% avg
Mads Mikkelsen as Le Chiffre · 76% avg
Judi Dench as M · 73% avg
Jeffrey Wright as Felix Leiter · 68% avg
Giancarlo Giannini as Mathis · 79% avg
Caterina Murino as Solange · 68% avg
Simon Abkarian as Alex Dimitrios · 71% avg

Is Casino Royale good?

Yes. 89% of real audiences liked it, by Google's archived audience score. Critics agree, scoring it 87%.

Where it ranks on ThumbScore

Rank in its genre
#86 / 1446 · Adventure
Rank in its year
#14 / 206 · 2006
Rank among its director's films
#1 / 11 · Martin Campbell

By audience score, among films with 500 or more votes.

Overview

Le Chiffre, a banker to the world's terrorists, is scheduled to participate in a high-stakes poker game in Montenegro, where he intends to use his winnings to establish his financial grip on the terrorist market. M sends Bond—on his maiden mission as a 00 Agent—to attend this game and prevent Le Chiffre from winning. With the help of Vesper Lynd and Felix Leiter, Bond enters the most important poker game in his already dangerous career. Wikipedia ↗

About the Film

Casino Royale is a 2006 British spy film directed by Martin Campbell, the 21st official James Bond film and the first to star Daniel Craig as 007. The film reboots the franchise, depicting Bond earning his 00 status and undertaking his first major mission: bankrupting Le Chiffre, a financier to international terrorists played by Mads Mikkelsen, in a high-stakes poker game at the Casino Royale in Montenegro. Along the way, Bond falls in love with Vesper Lynd, a Treasury agent played by Eva Green, in what becomes the most emotionally consequential relationship in the character's cinematic history.

Casino Royale represented a radical reinvention of the James Bond franchise, stripping away the gadgets, quips, and fantastical villain plots that had defined the Brosnan era in favor of a grittier, more realistic approach influenced by the Bourne franchise. Daniel Craig's casting was one of the most controversial in Bond history — fans protested a blond Bond before the film's release, but Craig silenced all criticism with a performance that combined physical brutality, emotional vulnerability, and a cold intelligence that redefined the character. The film's opening parkour chase through a construction site announced a new era of Bond action, and the torture scene — in which Le Chiffre torments a naked, bound Bond — was the most visceral and disturbing sequence in the franchise's history.

Casino Royale earned $616 million worldwide and is frequently ranked alongside Goldfinger and Skyfall as one of the greatest Bond films ever made.

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