Preview of "Casino Royale" earns praise for Daniel Craig
Casino features a grittier James Bond in the first 007 film starring Craig.
Twenty minutes from the new James Bond flick "Casino Royale" has been screened at the Amsterdam Cinema Expo this week, and journalists are more than pleased with new Bond Daniel Craig. The "Munich" actor's gritty brutality has been praised as a welcome turn from Pierce Brosnan's uber-slick Bond.
Variety writes, "The footage showed off Craig as a grittier Bond, with scenes of more intense, visceral hand-to-hand combat than 007 has tackled in recent pics. One black-and-white scene flashed back to Bond's first ever (brutal and hard-to-pull-off) kill as an agent, as well as his (much more sleek and signature) second assassination."
