The Best Bond Ever!

Isn't this a sexy picture. That's Daniel Craig as James Bond and Eva Green as Vesper Lynd from Casino Royale, the best Bond picture ever and the best James Bond.

I can't begin to tell you how much I enjoyed this film. Casino Royale actually is the first book in the series of James Bond books by Ian Fleming (who amazingly enough aslo wrote the book that Chitty Chitty Bang Bang is based on).

What you get in this book, is the origins of James Bond, or at least you get to see the man before he becomes the James Bond of Dr. No etc. In this Bond, he's just achieved his 007 status, and it's clear that he doesn't play by the rules.

I don't want to put up any spoilers, but I will say that what I love about Daniel Craig, is that he's a real man. You believe him when he's waving a gun around. You don't know whether he's going to shoot your or kiss you. The only other actor that I can think of who has that quality is Clive Owen (Russell Crowe would just shoot you, or beat you with a phone).

The fact that this Bond is blond? Who cares! What does that have to do with anything? Oh right because the previous bonds had all been brunets, apart from Roger Moore is kind of blond, but who always looked to me like he'd rather be sitting in the bar, then shooting anyone.

I have to say straight up that I've never been a huge Bond fan. I didn't start seeing the movies until Timothy Dalton was cast, because I adore him. I'd seen bits and pieces of the other films, but they just seemed to be full of gadgets and women moaning 'Oh James' before they get blown to bits or covered in gold paint. The only Sean Connery Bond that I've seen all the way through is the remake he did of Thunderball with Kim Basinger. I've never seen any of the Roger Moore movies all the way through, because he annoys me. I did see all four Pierce Brosnan movies, because I like him, but I felt that the villains were never that interesting. Robert Carlyle was wasted in The World is not Enough or Tomorrow Never Comes of which ever one he was in with Michelle Yeoh and Sophie Marceau.

But this Bond, I know I'm going to see again. When James Bond fights in this movie, he bleeds, you can tell that he's hurt and that he suffers. Not to mention, how hot Daniel Craig looks in his bathing suit or in his tuxedo. And the relationship that he forges with Vesper Lynd in this movie is wonderfully romantic and sexy. The scene between the two of them at the end, is so sad, it just breaks your heart.

So I give Casino Royale an A-. I look forward to seeing what else Daniel Craig can do in the role. If the writing is as good as it was in this one, the Bond franchise has now been successfully reborn.