Customer Reviews
I hate that coward host of Bond girls extra! - By: L. Koprivica, 06 Mar 2010 
The movie itself is pure 5! BUT:
That woman, Maryam d'Abo, she's so sorry that she ever got into the Bond movie! She regrets she ever appeared in it!!! She keeps asking her "counterparts": how threatened they felt in "men's world" of James Bond movies!
I just can't believe it!
Thankfully, in supporting of what I'm saying, alll of them were answering that it was a real pleasure to be in such a quality & fun movies, in company of such a men as is Sean Connery...
A new Bond - By: MIGO, 14 Feb 2010 
Daniel Craig delivers a different type of James Bond, yet perfectly fitting into the Bond universe.
Perfect BluRay, many extras,9 significantly better than the DVD, nice price; in short a must buy.
great film - By: Mark, 12 Jan 2010 this is a great film, well worth the money for the blu-ray edition & its cheaper than the other special editions of casino royale you can buy.
The original reference disc - By: Mr. Blu, 10 Dec 2009 One of the oldest Blu-Ray discs is still one of the absolute best. "Casino Royale" has a dazzling PCM 5.1 soundtrack with some of the best Bond music in ages "You know my name" from Chris Cornell of The Black Crowes. Throughout the film the listener is spoiled with top-quality effects, superb use of surround speakers & a gargantuan subwoofer display: when the building crumbles late on, you'll think your own house is going down. And, last but not least, everything is perfectly balanced. There is a woeful trend emerging (chiefly amongst some DTS HD MA tracks e.g. "Public Enemies") for dialogue to be way too quiet & everything else way too loud.
"Casino Royale" is also a stunning visual experience. Everything is super-sharp & with such depth & plasticity that it becomes clear why some BD lovers talk about 'three-dimensionality' even before the release of 3-D Blu-Ray. There are several moments where you expect the figures to walk off the screen & into your room. Colours & contrasts are always spot-on, with Craig's eyes glowing an incredible blue that seem made to advertise the format!
And then the film is even better. I had given up on Bond movies as a pathetic joke many, many years ago. Suddenly the franchise is funny again (but no longer laughing at it) with a script that crackles with wit (Bond & Vesper on the train are superb after you digest the awful "Moneypenny" pun). Action sequences are more believable, the fiddly gadgets & associated campness are gone. Craig is a Bond who looks as though he could actuallly do this for a living & that gives the film a drive & a presence that the franchise had long lost. The film also offers a more human Bond than ever before, actuallly stopping to take the idea of killing seriously: the title music opens "If you take a life/Do you know what you'll give?" For me, he is beyond criticism & the best Bond ever bar none (unless you think the role should not be played so seriously, then it's Connery). But everyone is brilliant, the acting is the highest standard ever seen in a Bond movie.
Criticisms? The Sony product placement is beyond shameless. I know they spent a bundle on this, but do they have to risk ruining the hard-won reality & credibility of the film by fixing every camera-angle so that you even see the blank disc in the security camera recorder is a Sony? I also thought that Bond playing Texas hold 'em just because that is/was so popular on TV at the time was a bit suspect.
Aside from that, if for some strange reason you don't own this disc, buy it now. It reallly is still one of the top ten best Blu-Ray discs on the market, & still the disc I most often use to show off the format & related equipment to the curious.
HD Bond - By: Mr. D. Walker, 05 Nov 2009 The film is great, as long as you like the new bond.
The extra detail over the DVD makes it worth buying again; I didn't know a lot of the suits had a details on them.
