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Casino Royale

Casino Royale - in which James Bond becomes a 007 agent for MI6, which is a real organization, and plays cards to defeat financial terrorist, Mads Mikkelson. The first Daniel Craig Bond movie, he is a cheeky fucker who breaks into his boss's apartment and M thinks its cute, but still urges Bond to not follow a lead to the Bahamas, but he goes anyway. Okay, so, there is a trail of money and Mads Mikkelson (Le Chieffe) is trying to make the rest of the money he owes some BAD guys, and Bond wants those guys, I guess, so he plays Le Chieffe in poker, with his American friend Felix at the table, and at first he loses because Le Chieffe faked his tell, meaning someone Bond trusted betrayed him, and he assumes its not the beautiful woman, but he was wrong. Felix backs Bond the rest of the game, and he cleans out Le Cheiffe, taking breaks to fight some thugs and console his new girlfriend about sort of helping him kill said thugs, even though it was in direct self defense. Whatever. So, he beats Le Chief, but his new girlfriend betrays him and steals all the money he won, and she tries to get away, but the house she hides in sinks into the canal, so she drowns. Turns out, she was blackmailed to save her husband, but also cared about James Bond, who vows to never love again. This is the one with all the parkour in the beginning.



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