Ranking James Bond Films: #2 – “Casino Royale” (2006)
This script’s approach to the character and the story is evident right from the jump with a nasty black & white fist fight. We see Bond get his literal license to kill.
Movies…with a little bit of obscure culture and sports mixed in
This script’s approach to the character and the story is evident right from the jump with a nasty black & white fist fight. We see Bond get his literal license to kill.
Right from the jump, From Russia With Love feels different. It feels scarier. Bigger.
The test case for a successful Bond movie needing a stellar villain begins here, with Goldfinger.
There is always something special about the first. In 1962, Ian Fleming’s international spy debuted in Terence Young’s Dr. No. Sean Connery isn’t on the screen to open the movie, but when he introduces himself at the poker table, it is impossible not to go all in.