I just saw the latest Bond movie, Casino Royale and WOW!Daniel Craig presents us with a different Bond. He bleeds, rarely looks neat and tidy and even eats with his mouth full. He is definitely the closest Bond to the original Bond featured in Ian Fleming's novels. Craig is a Bond who is polite only when it gets the job done. He is sort of the 'MacGyver' of Bonds, using whatever is at hand to pummel his enemies. His only true gadgets are ones any of us could buy at the local electronics store - laptops, cell phones, etc. He has a gun every now and then, but it usually gets lost and he just pounds the other guy. He runs after a guy more often in this film that I ever remember a Bond doing. The best chase sequence I have ever seen is right at the beginning and - get this - there's no cars involved! Well, there is a bulldozer, but only for a few seconds...
He has few one liners. He is a very cold Bond. After he kills someone, he only looks coldly down to make sure that the other is truly dead. I thought for sure he would say 'Nailed him!' after killing a guy with a nail gun, but....nothing and that shows how well done this movie is. It avoids the camp and cartoonish-ness of the previous Bonds. Brosnan came close to this kind of coldness in The World is Not Enough, but not this close. He still was too neat and tidy. I appreciated how this movie took the time to tell the story, although I did find the double and triple crossing hard to follow, but maybe that's the point - Bond is new and he's learning what life as a double '0' really is like. It's not an easy to understand this life and the only one he can really trust in is himself. And the 'bad guy' isn't always so easy to identify. It's a lesson he learns over and over in this movie and we learn it while having our breath taken away.
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But does he need any badges?
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