Today’s movie is an espionage thriller with a scene that happens on
July 9. I hope you will watch this film tonight and enjoy it.
CASINO ROYALE
After Bond kills a traitorous station chief who had been selling
classified info, he gets his 00 status. Le Chiffre, a banker for international terrorists, goes
to Uganda and gets millions from Obanno, a leader of the Lord's
Resistance Army. Bond goes to
Madagascar where after a chase he kills a bomb maker named Mollaka, in
an embassy, which causes an international uproar. Bond visits M who says she’s
thinking of revoking his status and to lay low for a while. Bond goes to Nassau
where by surreptitiously accessing the Ocean Club’s security tapes, he is able
to identify a person who called Mollaka. Bond beats the man, named Dimitrios at
cards and seduces Dimitrios’s wife. On July 9, 2006 [42:56 to 53:38] Bond
follows Dimitrios to Miami. Bond kills Dimitrios after Dimitrios has passed a
package to Carlos. Carlos goes to the airport and plants a bomb on a tanker
truck that he drives towards the prototype Skyfleet airliner. After a vicious
fight Bond saves the plane and kills Carlos. The non-destruction of the plane
causes a $100 million loss to Le Chiffre, who had sold the stock short, but the
stock does not go down, due to the non-destruction of the prototype. Le Chiffre
had been gambling with his clients’ money. Le Chiffre sets up a high stakes
card game in Montenegro. M enters Bond
so he can beat Le Chiffre and force him to turn to MI6 for protection in return
for turning state’s evidence. Bond meets Verper Lynd, a British treasury agent
who has control of the $10 million entry fee. Bond loses the $10 million and
Lynd refuses to stake him any more cash. Agents of the Lord’s Resistance Army
attack Le Chiffre, but Bond kills them. Bond sets out to kill Le Chiffre, but
Felix Leiter of the CIA offers to stake Bond if they can get custody of Le
Chiffre. Le Chiffre’s girlfriend poisons Bond but Lynd helps save Bond. In one
hand Bond wins the tournament and Le Chiffre is wiped out. Le Chiffre kidnaps
Lynd and uses her as bait to get Bond. Le Chiffre tortures Bond in an attempt
to get the access code for Bond’s winnings, which were deposited into a Swiss
bank account. Mr. White kills Le Chiffre. Bond resigns from MI6 and goes to
Venice with Lynd. Bond learns that the funds were never returned to the
treasury and that Lynd is stealing them. He pursues her to a building under
renovation where she allows herself to drown, as the building collapses Mr.
White leaves with the money. Bond learns that Mr. White’s organization had
kidnapped Lynd’s boyfriend and had forced her to steal the money. Bond finds a
message from Lynd with Mr. White’s phone number, which Bond uses to track him
down, introducing himself with the classic line, “The name’s Bond, James
Bond”.
This is the surprisingly good
first of the Bond “reboot” movies. This
Bond has a harder edge than some of his incarnations. This film doesn’t
disappoint action-wise, but keeps the gadgetry to a minimum.
Cell phone at 47:44 shows date and time
Producer - Michael G. Wilson and Barbara Broccoli
Director - Martin Campbell
Screenplay - Neal Purvis, Robert Wade and Paul Haggis
Runtime – 2 hours 24 minutes
Released – November 14, 2006
Starring –
Daniel Craig as James Bond
Eva Green as Vesper Lynd
Mads Mikkelsen as Le Chiffre
Judi Dench as M
Jeffrey Wright as Felix Leiter
Giancarlo Giannini as René Mathis
Simon Abkarian as Alex Dimitrios
Caterina Murino as Solange Dimitrios
Ivana Miličević as Valenka
Isaac de Bankolé as Steven Obanno
Jesper Christensen as Mr. White
Sébastien Foucan as Mollaka
Tobias Menzies as Villiers.
Ludger Pistor as Mendel
Claudio Santamaria as Carlos.
Richard Sammel as Gettler
Clemens Schick as Kratt
Joseph Millson as Carter
Ben Cooke as Williams
Darwin Shawh as Fisher
Copyright by Ivan Walters in 2014.
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