I am really OK with the depiction of Venice water being so deep that a house can sink into a canal and a man would still get to dive deep into clear swimming pool water to rescue someone (Venice water is dirty and black and would even murkier if plaster had just crumbled into it).īut I like the idea of living the Bond lifestyle of travelling around Europe doing business and bringing along both a suit and a tuxedo. It was certainly OK that Bond actually kills bad guys in this adaptation, where, in the novel, he just watches people die around him the entire time. I was quasi-OK with the way the screenwriters felt it would be politically incorrect to show how Bond really got his first two kills: sniping a Japanese code breaker through a New York City skyscraper window and then killing a fellow agent from Norway who was also working for the Germans (Bond got his 00 status in World War Two). I really loved this adaption of 'Casino Royale' and didn't mind a lot of the unnecessary rewrites like the playing of Texas Hold'em.
