Basking In The Adventures of Ian Flemming

If there's something rewarding about a martini - it's how James Bond likes it. The new bond film "Casino Royale" got mixed reviews, but I appreciated the new flair the film brought from the newly casted Bond-- Daniel Craig. The film had an aura of the first novel's original seriousness which allowed Craig to be clever but without so much of the entirely unrealistic plots and technologically advanced gadgets (gadgets which I did partially miss). Overall I think he did a good job illustrating a young, sometimes naive, but ultimately intuitive Bond figure. That's not to say there weren't pretty girls, fast cars and overall action. He actually fell in love. But in my mind everything about the Bond movies will always be sexy, even if the movie didn't portray his mature personality to the fullest in this one- this time at least there were more explicit fight scenes, and for that and all the other reasons mentioned above is why I give it a thumbs up.