James Bond goes on his first ever mission as a 00. Le Chiffre is a banker to the world’s terrorists. He is participating in a poker game at Montenegro, where he must win back his money, in order to stay safe among the terrorist market. The boss of MI6, known simply as M sends Bond, along with Vesper Lynd to attend this game and prevent Le Chiffre from winning. Bond, using help from Felix Leiter, Mathis and having Vesper pose as his wife, enters the most important poker game in his already dangerous career. But if Bond defeats Le Chiffre, will he and Vesper Lynd remain safe? —IMDb
Martin Campbell (born 24 October 1943) is a New Zealand TV and film director. Campbell was born in Hastings, New Zealand. He directed two James Bond films, 1995’s GoldenEye, starring Pierce Brosnan, and 2006’s Casino Royale, starring Daniel Craig, and was the first Bond director since John Glen to direct more than one film, as well as the oldest director in the series’ history, at the age of 62 (beating the previous record set by Lewis Gilbert, who directed Moonraker at the age of 59). He also directed the two recent Zorro films, The Mask of Zorro (1998) and The Legend of Zorro (2005), both starring Antonio Banderas and Catherine Zeta-Jones.
On television Campbell had overseen some of the more action-oriented episodes from the TV series The Professionals (1977–1983), however his best known work is the 1985 BBC Television drama serial Edge of Darkness, for which he won the British Academy Television Award for Best Director in 1986. Campbell has also directed a movie remake of… read more
HATED IT!! There is no seduction in bond, just RAW VIOLENCE, man its like going from Sean Conerry slick performance in killing in a classy way, to Jason Momoa in a tux opening his enemies head with the butt of a gun or rife. Horrible, an on top of all this......HIS DIRTY BLOND AND HAS BLUE EYES, AND ONLY ONE FACIAL EXPRESSION....WHAT!!! Timothy Dalton knows what happends when you have blue eyes and act like crap....
Para mim é o melhor filme do James Bond, e olha que eu já assisti a todos! Craig entrega um Bond pedante e cheio de vigor, e o roteiro, muito bem amarrado, mescla cenas de ação e uma história coesa de maneira genial.
Surely one of the best action movies of the 2000s. The parkour chase is mesmerizing.
In 2005 and 2006 Batman and Bond, respectively, both received reboots that I loved. The 21st Bond film introduces Daniel Craig. It briefly and still mysteriously looks back at Bond’s origin, his first… read review
Strong but problematic. The movie is broken-backed, with lots of action scenes frontloaded onto a remainder that adapts Ian Fleming’s noirish novel. The book is composed of three set-pieces which the… read review
I am not a very big action movie fan. Explosions, violence, and sex don’t make a good movie unless there is some semblance of a story involved. Therefore, I’ve never really had an interest in watching… read review
Not being well-versed in the James Bond pantheon, I can’t really compare it to other Bond films, but I wasn’t particularly impressed with it. There are some impressive action sequences toward the beginning… read review