Casino Royale......I have heard it was the best Bond movie yet......I think it is the worst Bond movie yet......it is not a Bond movie!
The Texas hold-em is game a joke, and it is the key event in the movie:
1...They are supposedly good players and make every mistake in the book.
2...The chip values don’t add up to the bets they make
3...Bond figures out the other guy’s tells in one hand
4...They go all in and shove all their money out in the middle of the table
5...They play for hours and end up having the exact same amount of money on the last hand.
6...There is a total of $92,000,000 bet on the last hand and the hand is worth $150,000,000
7...The bad guy notices that Bond changes his shirt during a break but doesn’t notice that his hands and knuckles are battered and bloody…..in a poker game yet.
It is an okay movie but it is not a Bond movie:
1....In Bond movies Bond is ultimately sociable and the best of the best, is this movie Bond is unsociable and considered a liability by MI6
2...In Bond movies the stunts are comically far fetched, in this movie the stunts are just far fetched but portrayed as real
3...Bond falls in love which is not allowed in a Bond movie
4...Bond wakes up from cardiac arrest feeling chipper as a jay-bird
Not that impressed
Is that all you noticed? :sign: Man, you need to go back and rewatch...pay attention this time: :sign:
When Bond goes into his Aston Martin for the very first time, he does not close the door. He then reaches for his gun in the glove compartment, and immediately after, the door is closed.
Bond leaves the Venice hotel wearing his typical Omega watch. It stays with him throughout the final action sequence, but disappears as soon as he's under water. It later reappears on the boat while talking with M.
When Vesper gets up from the table after having dinner with Bond, she picks up her wallet and phone with her left hand and uses her right hand to push herself up from the chair. When the shot cuts, Vesper is holding her wallet in her right hand and pushing herself up with her left hand.
Camera crew reflected in the door of the Ford hire car and the Range Rover when Bond gets out of both at the hotel.
SPOILER: During the torture scene, close-ups of Bond's face reveal bloody markings on his right cheek that disappear and reappear between shots.
After the fight in the stairwell between Le Chiffre's clients, Bond returns to the poker table with no sign of the face injuries he received during the fight.
When the Skyfleet airplane prototype is first shown in its hangar, it has winglets at the outer tips of its wings. When the plane is later shown on the tarmac outside the hangar, the winglets are gone.
When Bond is watching the Ocean Club security video from the archive, the time display shows that the footage was supposedly recorded at around seven o'clock in the evening, but the shadows in the shot show that it is clearly much closer to noon.
When the aircraft carrying Bond to the Bahamas is first shown in the air approaching the airport it has an American registration (N followed by some digits). In a following shot when the aircraft is on the ground and Bond is getting out of the aircraft, the registration is all letters (probably a British G registration).
Towards the beginning of the film, when Bond jumps off the van into the embassy, the patch of ground he lands on is obviously a landing mat with leaves and turf covering it.
At the beginning, during the chase on the crane before the huge explosion, a cameraman is visible for just a second flying over the scene on a delta-wing.
During the chase at the beginning of the film, when Bond goes on his first assignment, his gun can sometimes be seen on the back of his right hip, then it disappears, then reappears when he needs it.
At the very beginning of the film, when Bond is talking to Dryden in his office, a wire can be seen leading from the Dryden's chair off-screen. You later on see that was used to flip the chair.
SPOILER: During the final scene when James shoots Mr. White in the leg, knee pads are obviously worn under Mr. White's pants. Not much is known about Mr. White though, it is possible that he does wear knee braces, he's an old man after all. Or perhaps he just returned from a game of cricket!
Camera briefly reflected in a shop window when Bond leaves the bank in Venice.
SPOILER: When Bond is trying to save Vesper from the cage underwater, in one shot the impression of an outline of a diving mask is clearly visible around her face.
SPOILER: When Mathis is talking with Bond before he is shocked, lighting equipment is reflected in his sunglasses
In the scene before the last one, when Bond is on the yacht talking to M, his laptop is displayed and open on his bag, after they hang up the phone and cut back to Bond, the laptop is gone.
On two occasions during the poker tournament, the players who are still in the pot at the end of the hand show their cards out of proper sequence. Normally the last person to bet or raise would be the first person to show their cards. This rule was broken in the movie for dramatic effect, allowing the winner to show his cards last.
Shortly before Vesper uses the defibrillator on James the heart-beat-sound slows and turns into a continuous sound, showing cardiac arrest. Electric defibrillation does not work on non-beating hearts.
At the beginning of the movie and as a background, some confidential documents are shown where it is stated that James Bond has now 007 status. It should have stated that he has now "double 0" status
During the chase scene at the airport, the Miami Police fire at the fueling vehicle, taking out at least three tires. During the final sequence of the scene, however, the vehicle clearly has all its tires intact.
Part of the movie is set at the Bahamas which driving on left. But every car, even the Bahamian, is left hand driven instead of being right.
When Bond's suffering the cardiac arrest, and is receiving instructions to use the defibrillator, the moment he opens his shirt you can see that one patch is already on the lower part of his chest, only then he starts opening the kit.
During the poker game, James looks at his cards and he has an Ace and King of Spades. When the bids are complete and he shows his cards they are an Ace and King of Hearts.
M tells Bond that the CIA uncovered a massive shorting of airline stocks prior to 9/11. She then says, "When the stocks hit bottom on 9/12 somebody made a fortune." Airline stocks didn't do anything on 9/12 because the New York Stock Exchange did not reopen until 9/17.
When an International fuel truck is being filled it releases air from air brakes. When Bond is driving this truck several minutes later the brake lines are damaged but the brakes do not engage as is normal in truck with dual pot air systems.
At the end of the poker game, Bond flips the dealer a $500,000 chip, but this is a tournament chip, worthless outside of the tournament and absolutely useless to the dealer.
At Miami airport, the man who walks through the metal detector before Richard Branson activates the alarm but is not searched and allowed to collect his hand luggage!
When Bond grabs a knife off the table with all the intention to kill Le Chiffre he grabs a simple butter knife, later when he is stopped by another player, we see a close up of the knife which is now a Swiss army type of knife.
Even if he has a respiratory ailment (he shows no symptoms), Le Chiffre doesn't know how to use his inhaler. He just squirts it into his mouth without inhaling, and without having first exhaled.
After rescuing Vesper from the water, Bond leaves her on her back instead of putting her in the recovery position to let the water drain from her lungs. He then (as is common in movies) gives her a romantic kiss instead of the kiss of life, for which you first have to tilt the head back and then blow horizontally into the lungs.
When the Aston Martin is flipped off the road, the force that it hits the ground is so hard that the cars air bags should have come out.
During the scene at the airport, the fuel truck driven by the terrorist sustains multiple gunshots to the tire, which slows it down, but the truck performs normally while Bond is driving it.
Crane chase: The load of pipes hanging underneath the crane hangs lower when Bond jumps on it, then it does in the scene before when he turns around on the steel girder to take a running start.
During the Miami airport vehicle scene, a Czech airlines Airbus is clearly visible (could be an A320 or A321 - difficult to tell from the shot). This aircraft would not fly routes to Miami from Prague due to limited range.
