Casino Royal
A change of venue this week for the club as our hosts were off camping in the woods. One of the circle stepped into the breach and provided his flat as a fine venue to convene for our weekly gathering of mindszzz
OK - Let's start with the positive. Daniel Craig gives the character a much needed dose of attitude and I liked this new mean, maverick style bond who is generally a fairly unlike able character. In the opening scenes you were left in no doubt that the old bond is dead, make way for the new.
Whilst I appreciated the toughness that he brought to the role (which bond purists tell me is much more true to the character created by Ian Fleming), I did feel at points that it was a shame that he had lost some of the class and 'Englishness'. Although I am not a big bond buff I found myself at moments feeling nostalgic for the cheesy lines and stupid gadgets.
The new bond is undoubtedly more realistic, gone are the days of stepping unscathed from a huge explosion with a slightly skew whiff dicky bow. I suppose in a silly way it felt like a part of my child hood had died (sniff) and the kitsch ness that defined this genre had been lost.
To end on a positive - the opening chase scene is incredible and features the free running champion Sebastien Foucan
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Well written article.
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