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Killer problems with "Casino:" Craig. He acts like he

couldn't spell "Bollinger" (or Grande Annee, for that matter) if his 00 status depended on it.
A major problem with the film is illustrated in the first scene: a seemingly endless fight in... a restroom? Is this some sort of ironic thrust at previous efforts wherein beginning scenes traditionally have been jaw-dropping? Didn't work.
Then, that truly INTERMINABLE foot chase scene after the black guy with the disfigured face. How many times did the poor stuntman have to jump on that girder? How many jumps from height?
The scene at the embassy? Embarrassing. Twenty guys with auto weapons pointed at Bond and he pulls out his little gun and KABOOM! Right.
Why not just kill the guy earlier? Oh yeah, I forgot: chase opportunity!
And that previous with the mongoose and the cobra shows another problem: it was so obviously faked that it self-destructed.
Villains: none really that bad. And enough facial problems to employ a team of medical specialists: facial disfigurement; bloody eye catarracts; some eye problem necessitating one darkened eye lens: did the American Opthomological Institute underwrite this film with an assist from plastic surgeons' guild?
The fights: it's obvious that, for all his marvelous muscles, this Bond can't fight. Every fight was a 15-rounder, yet he popped up, fresh as a daisy from each.
The scene at the airport?
NO imagination. Attack a jet with a loaded fuel tanker? I suppose that's okay for a run of the mill Hollywood film but one expects more brilliance from an arch villain. I think that "action" sequence lasted longer than the entire Keanu/Bollock runaway bus film, didn't it?
I've already remarked on the collapsing building so I needn't flay that, again.
WRITING. WRITING. WRITING.
Without it, no film gets too far and here's a perfect example.
One last point: Bond is supposed to be a sexual animal, no?
He rolls around like a high-schooler with Caterina and, for all we know, never consummates: censorship? Then, he has a longish plebeian relationship with the other. C'mon. That's what regular guys go through, not a Bond...



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