Now Casino Royale shows the new Bond can kill barehanded as efficiently as he can with a Walther PPK or a tricked-out Aston Martin. There hasn't been a truly vicious brawl in the Bond films since Sean Connery and Robert Shaw duked it out in From Russia With Love. The action sequences - several of which, like the opening parkour set-piece, must be seen to be believed - are breathtaking and return Bond to his down and dirty roots. Eva Green as Vesper Lynd and Daniel Craig as James Bond click for more images from Casino Royale.

By the end, Bond is becoming the icy, lethal secret agent - 'the blunt instrument' that Fleming envisioned - that men want to be and women want to be with. But before you can never say never again, Bond realizes the bad guys are not quite done with him yet. She has stripped him of his emotional armor. Unable to use the golden gun in his pants for quite awhile, the recuperating Bond genuinely and deeply falls in love with Vesper and they plan on a new life together. What ultimately results from this turn of events is something the misogynistic, sexual conquistador Bond never thought he'd fall victim to: love. After beating Le Chiffre, Bond finds himself tied naked to a chair and facing torture. She is also no mere bimbo she is a mature woman - a professional and every bit Bond's mental equivalent. She is clearly attracted to 007, but does not succumb to his charms that easily. Serving as the British government's 'money' and eyes and ears on Bond is Vesper Lynd (Eva Green). MI6 then hopes to bring Le Chiffre in so that he will roll over on his terrorist allies. Bond is the best cardplayer in the service so his boss, M (Judi Dench, the sole holdover from the Brosnan era), assigns him to beat Le Chiffre. Le Chiffre intends to win back his losses in a high-stakes poker tournament at the titular casino in Montenegro. After 007 foils Le Chiffre's latest scheme to bilk the stock market using his clients' money, the villain must win back over $100 million before his clients catch up and kill him. The trail leads the arrogant Bond to Le Chiffre (Mads Mikkelsen), an enigmatic math genius, gambler and banker to the world's terrorists. Newly minted 00 agent James Bond (Daniel Craig, more on him later) pursues the powers-that-be behind a bomber-for-hire he killed in a very controversial embassy battle. Despite what some critics have said, the plot to Casino Royale is relatively simple. Working from a screenplay adaptation by Neal Purvis & Robert Wade and Oscar winner Paul Haggis, Campbell's film is a lean, mean thriller about a killer being cultivated into a gentleman spy and the emotional and spiritual toll that transformation takes on him. Campbell has made perhaps his best feature film to date here.

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