I’ve seen Casino Royale five days ago and I’ve spent these days pon­der­ing on it. I know every sin­gle film star­ring Ian Fleming’s secret agent James Bond. When I was at the the­ater I sim­ply absorbed the movie with­out think­ing too much. I wanted the movie to sink in before I started to ask myself if this new Bond actor is worth another movie. Today, I came to a con­clu­sion. Daniel Craig can’t be com­pared to the other actors. The oth­ers were per­fect secret agents already. This movie is about Bond becom­ing the cold, heart­less, and impro­vis­ing killer we know and love. In ‘Casino Royale’ he’s kinda like a sociopath and he’s got lotta chances to prove this fact in one of the most character-driven movies in the whole series. I really enjoyed the movie, sim­ply because Bond looked like he was inex­pe­ri­enced. There are no gad­gets. There’s nei­ther a Q nor a Mon­eypenny. It’s been a long time since Bond has been this human.

Apart from the appar­ent movie mis­takes, this 21st install­ment has only one prob­lem. It’s a com­plete reboot. Sort of a new begin­ning. That’s a lit­tle bit irri­tat­ing because Judi Dench still remains as M. Well, the plot wasn’t really that well thought out but it is enough to illus­trate what it’s like to be a newly pro­moted double-zero agent. I like the direc­tion the pro­duc­ers have taken with the lat­est install­ment of the series and I’m happy they man­aged such a reju­ve­na­tion after more than four decades …