Casino Royale (Deluxe Edition) [DVD] [2008]

Casino Royale (Deluxe Edition) [DVD] [2008]Director: Martin Campbell
Studio: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Category: DVD

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Sales Rank: 44,477

Format: Subtitled, PAL
Languages: English (Subtitles For The Hearing Impaired), English (Subtitled), Hindi (Subtitled), English (Original Language), English (Audio Description)
Rating: Suitable for 12 years and over
Region: 2
Discs: 3
Aspect Ratio: 16:9 - 2.40:1
Number Of Discs: 3
Running Time: 144 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.7
Dimensions (in): 7.6 x 5.6 x 1

MPN: 5035822350847
EAN: 5035822350847
ASIN: B001GISLOW

Release Date: October 20, 2008
Availability: Usually dispatched within 1-2 business days
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From Amazon.co.uk
The most successful invigoration of a cinematic franchise since Batman Begins, Casino Royale offers a new Bond identity. Based on the Ian Fleming novel that introduced Agent 007 into a Cold War world, Casino Royale is the most brutal and viscerally exciting James Bond film since Sean Connery left Her Majesty's Secret Service. Meet the new Bond; not the same as the old Bond. Daniel Craig gives a galvanising performance as the freshly minted double-0 agent. Suave, yes, but also a "blunt instrument," reckless and possessed with an ego that compromises his judgment during his first mission to root out the mastermind behind an operation that funds international terrorists. In classic Bond film tradition, his global itinerary takes him to far-flung locales, including Uganda, Madagascar, the Bahamas (that's more like it) and Montenegro, where he is pitted against his nemesis in a poker game, with hundreds of millions in the pot. The stakes get even higher when Bond lets down his armour by falling in love with Vesper (Eva Green), the ravishing banker's representative fronting him the money.

For longtime fans of the franchise, Casino Royale offers some retro kicks. Bond wins his iconic Aston Martin at the gaming table, and when a bartender asks if he wants his martini "shaken or stirred," he disdainfully replies, "Do I look like I give a damn?". There's no Moneypenny or "Q," but Dame Judi Dench is back as the exasperated M who, one senses, admires Bond's "bloody cheek." A Bond film is only as good as its villain, and Mads Mikkelsen as Le Chiffre, who weeps blood, is a sinister dandy. From its punishing violence and virtuoso action sequences to its romance, Casino Royale is a Bond film that, in the words of one character, 'makes you feel it', particularly during an excruciating torture sequence. Double-0s, Bond observes early on, "have a short life expectancy". But with Craig, there is new life in the old franchise yet, as well as genuine anticipation for the next one when, at last, the signature James Bond theme kicks in following the best last line ever in any Bond film. To quote Goldie Hawn in Private Benjamin, "now I know what I've been faking all these years". --Donald Liebenson



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