Word: royaleã
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...shooting for awards, and many of these better films haven’t been bashful about their violent content. “The Departed” is easily the best film by Martin Scorsese in years (possibly since “Goodfellas”), while “Casino Royale?? leaves most Bond films in the dust. But neither of these films is so good because of its violence. Indeed, the best action scene in “Casino Royale?? is a beginning chase scene with practically no blood; “The Departed?...
...dialogue in “Casino Royale?? is also more interesting than the action scenes (a hallmark of the Connery days). The same holds true of “V for Vendetta” and “Inside Man.” The problem with “V for Vendetta,” and with many of this year’s less successful films, is that burgeoning body counts don’t always correlate with increasing emotional tension...
...writers of “Casino Royale?? include “Crash” writer/director Paul Haggis, who adds his effective (if overblown) dialogue to the film, but doesn’t try to convince you that the obscenely long and bloody chase sequence on a Miami runway has anything to do with plot or character development. This is disappointing—it holds “Casino Royale?? back from being one of the greatest Bond films ever—but not horribly so. In other films where the interstitial space between blood splatters...
...Casino Royale?? debunks most 007 conventions with pleasure, including the pinball-bumper array of women off which James bounces and the resultant bevy of female conquests. Craig scores only once in the film, and even then it’s not made with the traditional smile or joke resulting (in more recent films) in a gruesomely long sex scene. Bond does make it with Vesper, but only after nearly an hour of psychological sparring...
...Casino Royale?? is a little of both, as it turns out. Eventually their game of emotional chess gives way to the film’s interminable poker match, punctuated with gunplay and torture portrayed in more graphic terms than usual for a Bond flick. These convulsions eventually break through the pair’s thick armor and allow them to see what’s at each other’s core: a mirror image. The two are the same insofar as Darcy and Elizabeth from Austen’s “Pride and Prejudice?...