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Oh, the chase at the start rather lacked context until Bond arrives (nice idea on paper, but when it's a chase that lasts a few minutes, knowing who's where and why rather helps)
The action scenes were often great - which is ironic; I typically prefer plot and story detail.
But the plot was long, drawn out, unsure of itself, and hung together only via various set pieces, and a villain with some potential but it's not quite laid out.
(the fate of the "villain" should be important yet it's not -- nor is he really a villain because M or whoever said it's "not about good or evil, only necessity". More topical pablum that's in every modern movie made. "For Your Eyes Only" had action, a plot, characters -- but it stayed in escapist territory as it was a quest for a machine. Not a lamentable lecture on oil, starving people, and other issues thrown into something that almost resembles a script.)
Maybe it's because the plot is so inane and all-over-the-place that the action scenes were a sigh of relief...
I should have realized, the day I bought the poster, some 3 weeks before the movie's release, that because I was so gung-ho to get the poster, the movie wouldn't have been so great.
Incidentally, where was the subplot over Bond's revenge against Vesper? The movie paddled around with it but quickly went into other directions.
Now some of the set pieces (Bond infiltrating, the escape from M's torture chamber and we're lucky she's still alive, drinking the quart of oil, the scene in the end when he and the lady are trapped in a burning building gets a gun and makes it look he's going to shoot herself and him but then hits the convenient hydrogen canister instead because he was feeling blue, explosions are yellow, and hydrogen power isn't always green... :eyes: ) are some of the best in the Bond movie history. But there's no PLOT that really holds the thing together. No focus or direction.
Q needs to return too. As does Money Penny.
And what was up with the title sequence? The song was iffy and the visuals empty. Too jarring; for the wrong reasons.
On the plus side, Daniel Craig still sold me as Bond - which was a BIG plus - but "Casino Royale" was, by far, the better of his two outings so far.
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