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The new James Bond rocks royally!

The return of James Bond in Casino Royale (the 2-Disc Widescreen Edition is awesome), but not as you know him! The new Bond goes back to the early days of Bond and will be stripped of many of the elements that made the Bond movies so successful in the first place.

Let's hope they won't strip away too much, unless the stripping involves the new Bond girl! Fans of the original Ian Fleming books will be hoping for a more authentic portrayal of both the character and the book.

The producers seem to have been reluctant to take a risk with the formula in the past, presumably for purely financial reasons. The time has come now were they, perhaps, have no choice other than to bring in a new era.

We hope to see a more realistic and gritty film, less gadgets and explosions, more dialogue and less of the quips. Something of an opportunity was lost when the very real possibility of a Tarantino/Brosnan collaboration fell through.

As for the storyline, James Bond's first 007 mission takes him to Madagascar, where he is to spy on a terrorist Mollaka. Not everything goes as planned and Bond decides to investigate, independently of the MI6 agency, in order to track down the rest of the terrorist cell.

The director of Goldeneye has returned and is charged with delivering us a new Bond. His work on Goldeneye resurrected the franchise so he has the qualifications to do it again. Speculation is, as ever, rife as to leading ladies and Bond girls private lives..

The character of Vesper Lynd is the most crucial female role and we expect Eva Green to be one of the better Bond girls. Time will tell whether they have the courage to make a film worthy of the original creation of Ian Fleming - let's hope they do.