Comments on: Casino Royale (2006) https://thegoodsreviews.com/casino-royale/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=casino-royale Watching and asking: Is It Good? Mon, 13 Feb 2023 16:00:50 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1.3 By: Dan S https://thegoodsreviews.com/casino-royale/#comment-56 Mon, 29 Aug 2022 13:52:29 +0000 https://thegoodsreviews.com/2021/09/17/casino-royale/#comment-56 In reply to Nate.

Great call on the film undercutting Vesper’s betrayal. It definitely pulls that punch where the movie would be better if it didn’t.

]]> By: Nate https://thegoodsreviews.com/casino-royale/#comment-44 Sat, 27 Aug 2022 22:46:48 +0000 https://thegoodsreviews.com/2021/09/17/casino-royale/#comment-44 I’m not much of a fan of the Craig era of Bond, but this is a good one and pretty easily his best imo. But I’ve always thought it was lame that he wins the poker game because he gets a straight flush – right after talking about how poker isn’t about having the best cards. Also, I wish they hadn’t tried to soften Vesper’s final betrayal of Bond by saying that Le Chiffre’s people had threatened to kill her lover if she didn’t cooperate. Just have her betray Bond because that’s what she wants to do. Let him (and us) see the dangers of a spy becoming vulnerable and open with someone he doesn’t know very well. Making her be essentially forced into her ‘betrayal’ feels weak to me… like the character didn’t really make her own decision, because the movie was afraid to have Bond (and us) dislike her too much. Still, not a huge deal in the grand scheme of things.

The poisoning sequence during the poker game is awesome.

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