The song isn’t bad, either, and even though I hate Chris Cornell’s turn in Audioslave, he’s doing a pretty good job with this Bond song. It’s a bunch of neat rotoscope animation and card suits being used as bullets and A Scanner Darkly Bond beating dudes up.

The opening credit sequence starts and it looks really, really good.

Bond quips, “You’re right.” Cut back to the bathroom and the guy that he just drowned gets up and tries to shoot James, but he just spins around (in the barrel!) and shoots this guy. Back in the office, this guy says hey, don’t worry if the first one was difficult, the second one is…and then he’s shot by Bond. He drowns this jerk-o in a sink and stands there for a moment to catch his breath. Back to Bond beating a man to death in a bathroom, and he has an icy look of death in his eyes.

Back in the office, this guy raises his gun and tries to shoot James but Bond just holds up the clip he had removed and is like, game’s over, sucker. Bond says hey pal, making money by selling secrets isn’t the best way to go, and this dude says you know, you can’t be 00 without two kills, and we cut to Bond elsewhere kicking the hell out of some dude. Entering a shadowy room, he sees his safe has been opened and boom! There’s Bond, sitting in the darkness. We open on…black and white(?) and a building in Prague, where a fellow wearing a funny hat walks through a giant building in the dark. But anyway, here we go with Daniel Craig in Casino Royale. One thing I learned is not to pick such a gigantic franchise to recap again. Having started it back in November 2016 and thinking I would finish it by the end of that month, it’s now almost mid-February 2017 and I’m finally wrapping it up. Not only because I’ve heard the Daniel Craig-era Bond films are mostly very good but also because I’m soon going to be done with this project. In the home stretch of the Bond franchise and with only four more films to go, I’m excited.

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