History YMMV / CasinoRoyale2006

** And for those who like FoeYayShipping and BDSM, there's the infamous scene of Creator/MadsMikkalsen as Le Chiffre inflicting [[GroinAttack CBT]] with a [[WhipOfDominance knotted rope]] on Creator/DanielCraig as Bond.

--->'''Vesper:''' How was the cock? [[note]]Original line: How was the lamb?[[/note]]\\

* TaintedByThePreview: The second Daniel Craig, a blond, was cast to a play a character that (per Fleming's description) with black hair, 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. Hardly anyone even remembers the furore anymore. Hell, Roger Moore had brown hair, anyway...

* OlderThanTheyThink: The idea of Bond being a humourless 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. [[UnbuiltTrope 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.)

** Bond's line to M, ''"Well, I understand 00s have a very short life expectancy... so your mistake will be short-lived"'' has gotten funnier thanks to Creator/DanielCraig's 2017 announcement that he'd star in a [[Film/NoTimeToDie fifth Bond film due in 2021]], 15 years since this film, thereby dethroning Creator/RogerMoore as the longest-serving Bond actor by number of years in the role.[[note]]Moore is still the longest-serving Bond actor by number of ''films'' done, with 7 film to Craig's 5.[[/note]]

* SignatureScene: It's a tossup between the poker match and the parkour chase near the beginning.

* CompleteMonster: [[SmugSnake Le Chiffre]] ("The Number") is well known in the underworld as a [[MorallyBankruptBanker banker]] for terrorist organizations. Financing countless militias and murderers, even those that utilize ChildSoldiers, Le Chiffre manipulates the stock market to increase his money by staging terrorist attacks on companies he can bet against. Attempting to bomb a Skyfleet protocol with numerous innocents about, Le Chiffre has the wife of an associate tortured to death for information after when he realizes the money he has lost. Staging a poker tournament to recover his warnings, Le Chiffre apprehends Bond and tortures him with [[GroinAttack a carpet beater to the groin]], gloating at how simple the applications of unbearable agony can be.
* 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.