History YMMV / CasinoRoyale

!!The 1953 novel contains examples of:

!!The 1954 TV film contains examples of:
* ItsShortSoItSucks: It's just 54 minutes. Then again, the other two adaptations are overly long, and while those were feature movies, this one was broadcast live as an episode of a anthology TV series, where going over an hour would've been pushing it, especially for the 1950s.

* ItsShortSoItSucks: It's just 54 minutes. Then again, the other two adaptations are overly long...

* ItsShortSoItSucks: It's just 54 minutes (then, again, you can see above that the other two adaptations are overly long...).

!!The 2006 film contains examples of:
* AwesomeMusic: [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YnzgdBAKyJo "You Know My Name"]].
** The James Bond theme. In an interesting choice, the familiar theme music isn't played very much in the movie... until the very last scene, when [[spoiler: James shoots Mr. White in the leg as revenge for Vesper]]. So the cue to the Bond theme is not only satisfying after such a long wait, but emphasizes Bond's badass attitude. It also firmly cemented both this particular 007 and, by extension, Daniel Craig, into the role.
*** It also pointed out an in-story GrowingTheBeard, with Bond finally being ready for the rigors of his job.
* EndingFatigue: The ending is considerably lengthened from the equivalent segment in the novel. [[PragmaticAdaptation Having said that,]] the last portion of the novel is essentially [[ContemplateOurNavels an extended internal monologue from Bond on the nature of love and relationships]] whilst he and Vesper are on holiday, whereas the film manages to cram in one last action sequence to make things more climactic.
* EnsembleDarkhorse: Mr. White, full stop. In this film and Quantum, the character has more [[CrowningMomentOfAwesome Crowning Moments Of Awesome]] in his limited screen time than the two villains of both films combined. Also, Mathis qualifies with the role as aide and confidante to Craig's Bond in this film.
* FoeYay[=/=]NoYay: What else can you say about a naked torture scene that starts off with the BigBad Le Chiffre eyeing up Bond and saying "you've taken good care of your body"? (Well, maybe [[GroinAttack ouch]]...).
* FunnyAneurysmMoment: Mathis' line "Being dead does not mean one cannot be helpful." becomes this when in ''Film/QuantumOfSolace'', [[spoiler: Bond takes the deceased Mathis' money to continue his quest]].
** Also, the fact that Mathis plants the bodies of Obanno and his bodyguard in a Le Chiffre accomplice's trunk to get the guy out of the picture, because it's the way in which Mathis gets killed in ''Film/QuantumOfSolace''.
* HarsherInHindsight: After the embassy shoot-out, M is upset enough at Bond's recklessness she tells him that she's seriously considering giving him up to the authorities. If what happened to Raoul Silva in ''Film/{{Skyfall}}'' means anything, M is not making an empty threat.
* InformedWrongness: We are supposed to believe that Bond's initially being knocked out of the tournament was due to him being arrogant and stupid. Except it was a perfectly reasonable call to make. Bond had a Kings full of Aces Full House. Literally the only two card combinations that could have beaten him were pocket aces and pocket jacks to give Le Chiffre an Ace full house, or quad Jacks. With the way the board progressed (and depending on how Le Chiffre had bet), the vast majority of poker players would think that he had a J (maybe K-J), or possibly had 10-Q to give him a straight on the flop. When the next J came out, the straight is still looking good, and if he had K-J, that gave him a full house. The king coming out on the river was NOT good for him, because if he had the straight or the J, he now has a weak hand, if he had K-J, and Bond had the other K, they are splitting the pot - hence why he would be bluffing. The probability of Le Chiffre having quads was absolutely microscopic, and yet everybody (including Bond), acted like it was a stupid and reckless call to make. It was a GREAT call to make (and Bond probably knew it since he's supposed to be the best poker player in MI6), and it was saved only by Le Chiffre having TheMagicPokerEquation PlotArmor.
* OlderThanTheyThink: The idea of Bond being a humorless government-paid assassin who doesn't use gadgets and fights realistic terrorists instead of flamboyant super-criminals. Seen for the first time, this can come off as a {{deconstruction}} of the Bond mythos, but it's actually how the character was originally portrayed in Fleming's novels. ''Casino Royale'' is probably one of the most accurate adaptations of the original novels to hit the big screen.
** It's also pretty much how the screen Bond was originally portrayed, in ''Film/DrNo'' and ''Film/FromRussiaWithLove'', the first two movies of the series. In fact, the series is a whole is more cyclical on this count than anything else; it goes from grittily realistic spy thriller to progressively more over the top gadgets and villains and plots, then reboots to return back to gritty realism again. (The ''extremely'' over-the-top ''Film/{{Moonraker}}'' being followed by the (literally) more down-to-Earth ''Film/ForYourEyesOnly'', for instance.)
* RetroactiveRecognition: Oh, look, James Bond is playing cards with [[Series/{{Hannibal}} Dr. Hannibal Lecter]]. Adds a new layer of subtext to some of Le Chiffre's threats later in the film.
-->'''Le Chiffre''': I'll feed you that which you seem not to value...
* SpecialEffectsFailure: At the beginning when Bond is tracking down the bomb maker, we see people betting on what's supposed to be a cobra fighting a mongoose. What they actually show is a cobra fighting a common domestic ferret, which other than sharing a low to the ground body type, looks almost nothing like a mongoose, is not related (or even from the same continent) and has no particular skill at fighting snakes.
* TaintedByThePreview: The second Daniel Craig, a blond, was cast to a play a character that (per Fleming's description) had been black-haired for the entire franchise, [[InternetBackdraft all hell broke loose.]] A website entitled "Daniel Craig Is Not Bond" even managed to get foreign press for all the fan ranting. Also, Moneypenny and Q weren't in the movie. Then the first trailer hit. Then the movie came out. Nobody even remembers the furor anymore. Hell, Roger Moore had brown hair anyway...
* TearJerker: [[spoiler:Vesper]]'s death. Bond's desperate, futile attempts to to rescue and revive her and the way he cradles her in his arms when it's obvious that she's gone. Daniel Craig displays so many emotions on his face within a few minutes that your heart feels as broken as his when it's all over.
** The theme song becomes this on repeated viewings: [[spoiler:It's Bond warning his future love interests about how little they'll mean to him, as he'll never be over Vesper.]]
** Either that or M telling Bond to harden up and get the job done, if ''{{Film/Skyfall}}'' is anything to go by.
* WhatAnIdiot:
** Mendel at the end. Bond is calling him and demanding to know [[spoiler: where the money is going and who authorized it]] and he just keeps smiling away without any hint that he's noticed there's anything wrong. Usually you'd think something like that would be an automatic alarm that you need to [[spoiler: freeze the transaction ASAP]].
** Le Chiffre's scheme - short sell company stocks then stage terrorist attacks on those companies to drive them into bankruptcy while he makes a fortune - has some problems to it. Namely, he finances it by dipping into his clients' money. Thus, when Bond sabotages his scheme on the Skyfleet plane, Le Chiffre loses $101.2 million in terrorists' money, and is forced to set up a poker tournament at Casino Royale in Montenegro to recover it, a game that is infiltrated by agents from MI6 and the CIA who want to bankrupt Le Chiffre to get him to seek asylum with one of them. And Le Chiffre himself gets attacked and threatened by a pissed off client who has found himself out of pocket. He'd have avoided this whole issue if he simply created a private fund to deal solely with his dirty venture, just in case something goes wrong, one of his schemes is discovered and foiled, and he loses money. He probably wouldn't be able to invest as much, but he would at least avoid making his clients get affected by something they were not involved in.
* WinBackTheCrowd: After Pierce Brosnan's latter few films started to grate on Bond fans due to their ever-increasing silliness, ''Casino Royale'' went a long way to showing that the series was viable again, critically.

* WhatAnIdiot: Mendel at the end. Bond is calling him and demanding to know [[spoiler: where the money is going and who authorized it]] and he just keeps smiling away without any hint that he's noticed there's anything wrong. Usually you'd think something like that would be an automatic alarm that you need to [[spoiler: freeze the transaction ASAP]].

* TearJerker: [[spoiler:Vesper]]'s death.

* UnfortunateImplications: There is a definite racial element to Bond's handling of an ''African'' embassy. It's hard to imagine Bond doing such things at the US Embassy.

* HarsherInHindsight: After the embassy shoot-out, M is so angry at Bond she tells him that she's seriously considering giving him up to the authorities. In ''Film/{{Skyfall}}'', Raoul Silva seeks revenge on M specifically because M betrayed him to the Chinese. So that threat M made at Bond in ''Casino Royale'' is not an empty threat.

* WhatAnIdiot: Mendel at the end. Bond is calling him and demanding to know [[spoiler: where the money is going and who authorized it]] and he just keeps smiling away without any hint that he's noticed there's anything wrong. Usually you'd think something like that would be an automatic alarm that you need to [[spoiler: stop the transaction ASAP]].

* InformedWrongness: We are supposed to believe that Bond's initially being knocked out of the tournament was due to him being arrogant and stupid. Except it was a perfectly reasonable call to make. Bond had a Kings full of Aces Full House. Literally the only two card combinations that could have beaten him were pocket aces and pocket jacks to give Le Chiffre an Ace full house, or quad Jacks. With the way the board progressed (and depending on how Le Chiffre had bet), the vast majority of poker players would think that he had a J (maybe K-J), or possibly had 10-Q to give him a straight on the flop. When the next J came out, the straight is still looking good, and if he had K-J, that gave him a full house. The king coming out on the river was NOT good for him, because if he had the straight or the J, he now has a weak hand, if he had K-J, and Bond had the other K, they are splitting the pot - hence why he would be bluffing. The probability of Le Chiffre having quads was absolutely microscopic, and yet everybody (including Bond), acted like it was a stupid and reckless call to make. It was a GREAT call to make, and it was saved only by Le Chiffre having TheMagicPokerEquation PlotArmor.

* HarsherInHindsight: After the embassy shoot-out, M is so angry at Bond she tells him that she's seriously considering giving him up to the authorities. After ''Film/{{Skyfall}}'', you'll see that's no idle threat.

** It's also pretty much how the screen Bond was originally portrayed, in ''Film/DrNo'' and ''Film/FromRussiaWithLove'', the first two movies of the series. In fact, the series is a whole is more cyclical on this count than anything else; it goes from grittily realistic spy thriller to progressively more over the top gadgets and villains and plots, then back to gritty realism again. (The ''extremely'' over-the-top ''Film/{{Moonraker}}'' being followed by the (literally) more down-to-Earth ''Film/ForYourEyesOnly'', for instance.)

** It's also pretty much how the screen Bond was originally portrayed, in ''Film/DrNo'' and ''Film/FromRussiaWithLove'', the first two movies of the series. In fact, the series is a whole is more cyclical on this count than anything else; it goes from grittily realistic spy thriller to progressively more over the top gadgets and villains and plots, then back to gritty realism again.

* HeyItsThatGuy: Spanish people watching this film could easily recognize the casino director as [[ElInternado Jacques Noiret]].

* FoeYay / NoYay - What else can you say about a naked torture scene that starts off with the BigBad Le Chiffre eyeing up Bond and saying "you've taken good care of your body"? (Well, maybe [[GroinAttack ouch]]...).

* TaintedByThePreview - The second Daniel Craig, a blond, was cast to a play a character that (per Fleming's description) had been black-haired for the entire franchise, [[InternetBackdraft all hell broke loose.]] A website entitled "Daniel Craig Is Not Bond" even managed to get foreign press for all the fan ranting. Also, Moneypenny and Q weren't in the movie. Then the first trailer hit. Then the movie came out. Nobody even remembers the furor anymore. Hell, Roger Moore had brown hair anyway...

* FoeYay - What else can you say about a naked torture scene that starts off with the BigBad eyeing up Bond and saying "you've taken good care of your body"? (Well, maybe [[GroinAttack ouch]]...).

* InformedWrongness: We are supposed to believe that Bond's initially being knocked out of the tournament was due to him being arrogant and stupid. Except it was a perfectly reasonable call to make. Bond had a Kings full of Aces Full House. Literally the only two card combinations that could have beaten him were pocket aces and pocket jacks to give Le Chiffre quads. With the way the board progressed, the vast majority of poker players would think that he had a J, and on the turn hit 3 of a kind (or depending on how he was betting, 10-Q to give him a straight on the flop). When the next J came out, the straight is still looking good, and if he had K-J, that gave him a full house. The king coming out on the river was NOT good for him, because if he had the straight or the J, he now has a weak hand - hence why he would be bluffing. The probability of Le Chiffre having quads was absolutely microscopic, and yet everybody (including Bond), acted like it was a stupid and reckless call to make. It was a GREAT call to make, and it was saved only by Le Chiffre having TheMagicPokerEquation PlotArmor.

* HarsherInHindsight: After the embassy shoot-out, M is so angry at Bond she tells him that she's seriously considering giving him up to the authorities. After ''Film/{{Skyfall}'', you'll see that's no idle threat.

* ShareTheMalePain
* StupidSacrifice: [[spoiler: Vesper's suicide]], especially since Bond had already killed all the henchmen. Justified in how she partly did it out of guilt and to escape punishment for her crimes.

** It's also pretty much how the screen Bond was originally portrayed, in ''DrNo'' and ''FromRussiaWithLove'', the first two movies of the series. In fact, the series is a whole is more cyclical on this count than anything else- it goes from grittily realistic spy thriller to progressively more over the top gadgets and villains and plots, then back to gritty realism again.

* EndingFatigue: The ending is considerably lengthened from the equivalent segment in the novel.
* EnsembleDarkhorse: [[spoiler: Mr. White]], full stop. In this film and Quantum, the character has more [[CrowningMomentOfAwesome Crowning Moments Of Awesome]] in his limited screen time than the two villains of both films combined. Also, [[spoiler: Mathis]] qualifies with the role as aide and confidante to Craig's Bond in this film.