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Article: Deal us in: `Casino Royale' birthplace of a brilliantly back-to-basics Bond.(Movie review)
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- Chicago Tribune (Chicago, IL)
- Article date:
- November 16, 2006
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Byline: Michael Phillips
Nov. 16--For a long time now, the James Bond franchise has been operating with a license to overkill. That license has been revoked by "Casino Royale." It doesn't even feel like a Bond film as we have come to expect them, in their numbing, increasingly gadget-dependent gigantism. No death rays from space this time. No invisible car. For once, most of the laws of physics are given due respect.
A renewed sense of engagement informs director Martin Campbell's tough, absorbing adaptation of the 1953 Ian Fleming novel, the one that started the whole 007 business. Daniel Craig is just right in the role, which has been rethought in ...
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