Throughout the game, audiences get to watch Daniel Craig display many of the qualities that made his Bond such a fan-favorite.
The almost 30-minute sequence was constructed as a microcosm of the rest of the movie and its leading character. Despite its reputation for being one of the best action movies of the past two decades, a large chunk of Casino Royale is dedicated to showing James James Bond playing a high-stakes game of poker against the main villain, Le Chiffre.Īfter weeks of research and preparation, Martin Campbell finally hit upon a method of doing something that had rarely been achieved before: make a long session of card-playing interesting to the audience.
