Desperate to recoup his money before said warlord comes to kill him, Le Chiffre organizes a world-class poker game at the famous Casino Royale in Montenegro. Unfortunately, Bond managed to halt his latest attempt, causing Le Chiffre to lose a large sum of money that he had just invested for an African warlord. She actually has a rather funny set of lines early on (after Bond has caused another scandal) where she declares “In the old days, an agent who screwed up that badly had the good sense to defect!” and then mutters “Christ I miss the Cold War” (the majority of the Bond films were set in the Cold War era).īond’s mission now is to engage the criminal known only as “Le Chiffre.” This mastermind is supposed to invest money on behalf of investors in the criminal underworld, but he also likes to make some money for himself by playing that money on the stock market, engineering disasters that will cause a tremendous profit (for him and his clients).

The only carryover from the original franchise is Judi Dench as an M who is (rightfully) frustrated with Bond’s seemingly overwhelming desire to kill everything in his path (as opposed to capturing suspects alive for questioning). Having reset the story, Bond is now a relatively young agent just earning his license to kill (a process seen in the prologue of this movie) and he is far from being sure of himself (however cocky he may act throughout the film). No longer was Bond that suave, experienced agent. As I’ve stated before, 2006 is the year that the entire James Bond saga was rebooted. Well, it took a little longer than expected, but we’ve finally arrived to the Daniel Craig era of James Bond.

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