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November 17, 2006

'Casino Royale' holds a winning hand

By DAVID GERMAIN
AP Movie Writer

It would have been enough just inserting a fresh face, Daniel Craig, as 007 in “Casino Royale” to give a whole new look and feel to the James Bond franchise.


CASINO ROYALE

Director: Martin Campbell

Cast: Daniel Craig, Eva Green, Mads Mikkelsen, Judi Dench

Rating: PG-13 for intense sequences of violent action, a scene of torture, sexual content and nudity

Running time: 144 minutes

Yet taking the world's greatest spy back to his roots as a raw, impressionable brute whose cockiness at times fails him and who can lose his heart to a woman was a keen stroke of intelligence.


 
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