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Casino Royale

1967

John Huston, Ken Hughes ...

Peter Sellers, Ursula Andress, David Niven, Woody Allen ...

5.2

4,426

Comedy. Mystery SMERSH has outlined a plan to destabilize the world. Her Majesty’s Secret Service decides to press an aging James Bond out of retirement and back into action. His objective, to confuse the enemy by unleashing several agents, all named James Bond, and in the casino topple the evil baccarat ace Le Chiffre, whose earnings support the SMERSH.

	Author	Review
United States	Andrew Sarris Village Voice	"The total experience remains boringly incoherent."	NEG
United States	Roger Ebert rogerebert.com	"A definitive example of what can happen when everybody working on a film goes simultaneously berserk (...) Rating: ★★ (sobre 4)"	NEU
United Kingdom	Geoff Andrew Time Out	"Even less amusing than the more 'serious' Bond films."	NEG
United States	James Berardinelli ReelViews	"For twenty minutes, 'Casino Royale' is clever, witty, and exacting in its satire (...) Unfortunately, after the introductory sequences, 'Casino Royale' begins a downhill slide (…) Rating: ★★ (out of 4)"	NEU
United States	Bosley Crowther The New York Times	"It becomes repetitious and tedious. And since it's based more on slapstick than wit, with Bond cliché piled upon cliché, it tends to crumble and sprawl"	NEG
United Kingdom	Andrew Collins Radio Times	"A surfeit of screenwriters (eight, including Billy Wilder) and directors (five, including Huston) lends the whole a chaotic, disjointed air, but there is much fun to be had along the way (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)"	NEU
United States	Charles Cassady Jr. Common Sense Media	"Unless you like your Bonds completely straight-faced -- the film is funny, in its overindulgent, zany way"	POS

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