Wick's Review

Summary - Perfect 5.0

Is there a better Bond movie? From the B&W opening’s clever incorporation of Bond shooting at the camera, to ‘Bond, James Bond’ not coming till the final line, Casino Royale visits the de rigueur touchstones in fresh, inventive ways. Daniel Craig barely cracks a smile or a smirk, yet is funny all the way through, a man’s man and a lady’s man both. If the Blond Bond keeps this up, Sir Sean’s going to have to make room atop the Best Bond pedestal.

It’s a perfect reboot.

Acting - Great 4.0

Film - Really Great 4.5

Edge - Risqué 2.2

Relatively chaste by Bond standards, he beds few women, none explicitly. The more interesting thing is that the sexiest creature in the movie is Bond himself, not the Bond Girls. Sure, my tastes run to cheesecake, making me not the best judge of beefcake. But you’d have to be blind to miss how the beef was prime cut, while the cheese was merely average.

Reality - Supernatural 3.7

Hey, it is a James Bond movie. He’s supposed to be a flesh and blood super-hero, so long as he pulls it off with panache. He does and so the nearly 4x reality factor is like a continuous tickle.

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