Here Bond is aided by stunningly beautiful Bond Girl and British treasury operative Vesper Lynd (Eva Green), earnest CIA agent Felix Leiter (Jeffrey Wright), and dapper MI6 agent Mathis (Giancarlo Giannini), though Bond gets impatient when they cramp his style. All of this is warm-up for the big showdown with the requisite dastardly, damaged villain Le Chiffre (Mads Mikkelsen), which centers around a high-stakes poker game. I really enjoyed NTTD, but rewatching Royale now I see why.
And then he destroys much of the Miami Airport in order to stop a bomb's explosion. Casino Royale is so incredibly grounded in some attempt at realism (as real as James Bond gets, at least) stakes as high as a terrorist attack and a shady finance network (a plausible challenge for todays intelligence services), gadgets no more complicated than a defibrillator. First he chases one man through the 'Nambutu Embassy' in Madagascar, wreaking havoc and, as M puts it, violating 'the only inviolate rule of international relations.' Later, he beds a villain's wife (Caterina Murino) to extract information, leaving her open to terrible retribution. Bond's early 007 adventures involve all manner of brutality and rule-breaking, as he fixes on his targets with unshakable ferocity. Starring Daniel Craig as Secret Agent 007, director Martin Campbell's CASINO ROYALE takes viewers back to James Bond's beginnings, when M ( Judi Dench) elevates him to the extra-special rank of 007.
