2006 · action · spy
Casino Royale
Directed by Martin Campbell2h 24m2006
Le Chiffre, a banker to the world's terrorists, is scheduled to participate in a high-stakes poker game in Montenegro, where he intends to use his winnings to establish his financial grip on the terrorist market. M sends Bond—on his maiden mission as a 00 Agent—to attend this game and prevent Le Chiffre from winning. With the help of Vesper Lynd and Felix Leiter, Bond enters the most important poker game in his already dangerous career.
Our read: Casino Royale (2006) reads as a sombre, breathless, grounded action · spy entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Sombre, breathless, measured action / spy, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, measured.
- sombre
- kinetic
- intense
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