Monday, August 21st, 2023
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The real James Bond is retired, while another man continues le legend under
his name. But as many secret agents of all countries are eliminated by SMERSH,
Bond is coerced into coming out of retirement by the explosion of his mansion,
in which M is killed. Bond returns M's toupee to his widow in Scotland. She
really is Mimi, a SMERSH agent tasked with destroying Bond's celibate image,
which fails. Bond then goes back to London and becomes the new M, where he
learns the agents are eliminated because they cannot resist sex. Bond orders
all remaining agents to be called James Bond to confuse SMERSH. He then hires
millionaire and former agent Vesper Lynd to hire baccarat expert Evelyn
Tremble. The goal is to prevent SMERSH agent Le Chiffre from recovering the
money he embezzled from his organization by winning at the Casino Royale.
Based on a tip from Mimi, Bond sends his daughter Mata to West Berlin to
infiltrate a SMERSH training centre. There she foils Le Chiffre's other
money-making scheme, selling compromising photographs of world military
leaders. Tremble and Lynd then arrives at Casino Royale and foil an attempt to
disable Tremble. The latter then observes Le Chiffre and discovers he cheats
using infrared glasses. Lynd steals the glasses and Tremble wins the game.
Le Chiffre then captures and tortures Tremble with hallucinogens. The latter is
saved but then killed by Lynd. Le Chiffre is then eliminated by SMERSH. In
London, Mata is kidnapped by SMERSH in a giant flying saucer. Bond and
Moneypenny travel to Casino Royale to rescue her and discover there an
underground lair belonging to the evil Dr. Noah, in reality Jimmy Bond, James'
nephew. Jimmy's plan is to release a bacteriological agent that will make all
women beautiful and kill all men taller than 4"6', leaving him as the big man
who gets all the girls. Another, female James Bond whom Jimmy had kidnapped
earlier poisoned Jimmy with a miniature atom bomb. Bond, Moneypenny and Mata
escape from the lair back to the casino where Bond establishes that Lynd is a
double agent. The casino is overrun by secret agents and a battle ensues, with
American and French support, adding to the chaos. Jimmy finally explodes,
destroying the Casino and killing all people in it.
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Tuesday, June 13th, 2023
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After Blofeld's arrest,
Bond and Madeleine Swann travel to Italy where he wants to visit
Vesper's
grave. He is attacked by Spectre and concludes that Madeleine told them where
they were. He therefore rejects her and retires in Jamaica until Leiter asks
for his help in retrieving Heracles, a contagious nanobot-based poison
developed by MI6 and stolen by its main scientist, Obruchev. Bond is contacted
by Nomi, his successor as 007, but refuses to work for M. At a Spectre party
in Cuba where Obruchev has been located, Bond is caught and expects to die,
but instead all members of Spectre die from poisoning with Heracles (it is
programmed with DNA and affects only its targets). Leiter is then betrayed by
his colleague from the State Department and killed, Bond escapes. He goes back
to MI6 and wants to interrogate Blofeld who was remotely overseeing the party
in Cuba. He meets Swann, Blofeld's psychologist, who has been coerced by Safin
(the man who, when she was a child, killed her mother in revenge for her
father having killed his family) into infecting herself with Heracles to kill
Blofeld. The latter confesses that Swann had nothing to do with the attack at
Vesper's grave, and then dies from Heracles. Bond then tracks Swann to her
childhood home in Norway where he meets her daughter Mathilde, and learns that
Safin owns an island in the Sea of Japan. They are then attacked by Safin's
men, and during a chase through the forest, Safin abducts Swann and her
daughter. Bond and Nomi then infiltrate Safin's island and discover it
holds a nanobot factory. They free Swann and her daughter and Nomi takes them
off the island. Bond then orders a missile strike on the island, but while
fighting Safin he is infected with an Heracles targeted at Madeleine and
Mathilde. Knowing that he would cause their death, he decides to stay on the
island and die when the missiles destroy the facility.
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Friday, November 13th, 2015
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Following the posthumous suggestion of former M, and without knowledge of his
hierarchy, Bond assassinates Marco Sciarra in Mexico City and goes to his
funeral in Rome. There he learns that Sciarra was a member of SPECTRE, a
global criminal organisation. Meanwhile, MI6 is to be merged with MI5 and M
replaced by a single chief who has a blind faith in total surveillance. In
Rome, Bond identifies the head of SPECTRE as Franz Oberhauser, presumed dead.
He then gets a lead to Mr White in Austria, a former SPECTRE operative who
tells Bond that his daughter will lead him to l'Américain. After saving the
daughter, Madeline Swann, from SPECTRE assassins they go to L'Américain, a
hotel in Tangiers, where Bond finds a secret room with White's notes on
locating Oberhauser. The villain's base is in the middle of the Moroccan
desert; after receiving Bond's visit and explaining that MI5's new
surveillance network (linked to 8 other countries' own networks) will actually
serve SPECTRE's purposes, Oberhauser (who was also revealed to be the
murderous son of Bond's adoptive father and now goes by the name Blofeld) is
left for dead. Back in London, M and Q work on preventing the surveillance
network from going online while Bond saves Swann from being killed by Blofeld
in the premature demolition of the former MI6 building. Bond then arrests
Blofeld who was trying to escape.
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Sunday, October 28th, 2012
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In Turkey, while chasing a mercenary who has stolen a hard-disk drive with a
list of NATO agents, Bond is nearly killed by friendly fire (on M.'s order)
and believed dead. Learning that M.I.6 headquarters has been the target of an
attack, Bond returns, and despite failling his atptitude test, M. sends him
back into the field to track the man who stole the data and find his employer.
Bond kills the man before having any information out of him, but finds a clue
that leads him to a casino in Macau. There he meets a girl who promised to
lead him to the killer's employer, on the condition Bond frees her from him.
The employer is Raoul Silva, a former British agent turned rogue, who seeks
revenge on M., whom he blames for his capture and being tortured on his last
assignment. Bond eventually captures Silva and takes him to M.I.6. backup
headquarters, while M. is summoned to answer for the loss of the list of
agents in front of a committee. Silva's capture was actually planned all
along, and he escapes through the Underground network. Disguised as a
policeman, he tries to kill M. in the audience room, but Bond arrives just in
time to save her. He takes her to a safe place in Scotland, the Skyfall manor
where Bond had grown up before his parent's death. Helped by the old
housekeeper, they prepare to receive Silva's men. The manor is destroyed in
the process, and M. is wounded. Bond eventually kills Silva before he kills
M., but she dies soon after.
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Tuesday, November 17th, 2009
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007 and 006 get trapped while planting explosives in a Sovietic chemical
weapons facility. 007 escapes, but 006 is killed. Nine years later, Bond
witnesses the theft of a new stealth helicopter, protected against
electromagnetic interference. Soon after, a Siberian radar station is
destroyed by an electromagnetic pulse, and satellite pictures reveal the
presence of the helicopter. The weapon used is the GoldenEye, made of two
one-time use satellites emiting such a pulse and destroying all electronics in
an area of tens of kilometers. One satellite remains, and the key to the
system has been stolen by a criminal known as Janus. Bond goes to St.
Petersburg to meet Janus (using Janus' competing crime lord as an
intermediary), and discovers him to be the Trevelyan, ex-006, who was a
traitor and not dead after all. With the help of the mandatory girl, the sole
survivor of the destruction of the Siberian station, Bond chases Trevelyan and
manages to learn that the control station for the second GoldeEye satellite is
in Cuba. Bond and the girl go there and manage to destroy the satellite before
it being used on London. Trevelyan's plan was to rob the Bank of England
electronically and then erase all traces with an electromagnetic pulse, at the
same time avenging his parents' death, victims of the Betrayal of the
Cossacks.
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Thursday, November 13th, 2008
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Bond drives the man who was behind the assassination of Vesper in the
previous episode to Sienna to be
interrogated. He's a member of a secret criminal organisation named Solace,
but manages to escape thanks to a traitor at MI6. Bond traces the traitor's
contact in Haiti, where he meets Camille Montes and Dominic Greene. Greene is
the chairman of Greene Planet, an organisation which supports environmental
actions, but Greene is also a member of Quantum and schemes a coup d'état to
make General Meneral Medrano the new president of Bolivia in exchange for a
piece of land in the Bolivian desert. The CIA is involved, but they do not
intend to stop him. Camille wants to kill Medrano (who killed her family), but
Bond prevents her to do so. Bond then follows Greene to Bregenz when the
latter uses a representation of Tosca at Lake Constance as a secret meeting
place with business partners, involving pipelines. Bond discovers that an
advisor of the Prime Minister seems to be involved with Quantum. Me believes
Bond only seeks revenge for the murder of Vesper, and relieves him of duty,
with no success. Bond then asks René Mathis (his partner in Casino
Royale) to help him go to Bolivia and
follow Greene. In La Paz they meet Canille again, but Bond is framed by the
chief of police. Bond and Camille escape with an airplane found at the place
Greene seeks to acquire, but are shot down by a military airplace sent by
Medrano. They discover that Greene's goal is to control water, not to find
oil. Back in La Paz, Bond contacts Felix Leiter, who tells him that Greene and
Medrano are in a hotel in the middle of the desert and are going to sign a
deal where Greene provides Medrano with funds to buy himself the support of
the police. In exchange, Greene wants to control the distribution of water in
the country. Camille and Bond arrive just at that moment, Camille kills
Medrano and Bond gets answers from Greene before leaving him in the desert
(where he will be killed by Quantum shortly after). Finally, Bond goes to
Kazan in Russia to meet Yusef, Vesper's former lover who had driven her to
betray her country for the profit of Quantum, and is about to do the same with
a Canadian agent. To M's suprise, Bond doesn't kill Yusef.
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Saturday, March 1st, 2008
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James Bond is getting old, and MI6 doesn't need 00 agents any more. After
failing a combat test, Bond is sent to a specialized clinic in order to get
back in shape. He discovers something fishy there, and almost gets killed.
Soon after, two nuclear bombs are stolen from the US Air Force by SPECTRE, and
00 agents are sent back to the field in order to say the world once more. Bond
investigates Maximilain Largo, in relation with an Air Force officer, now
dead, who is suspected to have been involved in the the theft of the bombs,
and whom Bond has met at the clinic. Largo lives on a yacht in the Bahamas,
and Bond meets him there once. Largo then leaves to Nice where he owns a
casino and where he holds a charity event. Bond meets him a second time, and
manages to escape death again. He later gets invited on Largo's boat for
lunch, and is made (politely) prisonner, and taken to North Africa, where
Largo owns an antique fortress. Bond manages to escape, find out where the
bomb is located, fight Largo, disarm the bomb and save the day. At the end, he
quits MI6 and moves to Bahamas with Largo's ex-girlfriend.
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Thursday, May 31st, 2007
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The MI6 has just obtained a fake Fabergé egg in East-Germany from the hands of
a dying 009, and decide to investigate the murder. They discover that the real
egg is going to be auctioned soon at Sotheby's, from an unknown origin. Bond
goes to the auction and manages to replace the real egg with the copy and
notice the buyer, Kamal Khan, who is usually a seller rather than a buyer.
Bond follows him to his palace in India, where he meets him and lures him with
the real egg, equiped with a transmitter. The egg gets stolen by Khan's
girlfriend Magda and Bond is kidnapped and taken to Khan's palace where he
remains a prisoner. Khan presents the egg to the mysterious Octopussy, who
lives on an island populated only by women and who makes a living from
smuggling jewels. Later, in Khan's palace, Bond manages to witness a dialog
between Khan and rogue Red Army General Orlov, about making copies of a lot
of Russian historical treasures and about an attack that will taking place in
Karl-Marx-Stadt. Bond then escapes and pays a visit to Octopussy, where he
discovers that she owns a circus that is currently in Karl-Marx-Stadt. Going
there, he learns that the circus is going next to West-Germany on a U.S.
military base, and that the jewels are hidden on the circus'train. The wagon
hiding the jewels is however secretely switched with another one, identical
the the first one, except that it holds an nuclear bomb instead of the jewels.
Bond discovers that Orlov's plan is to detonate the bomb in the U.S. base, to
make it look like an accident and discredit the U.S. presence on German
territory. Once the americans would have left, Europe would be vulnerable
enough to be invaded by the Soviet Union. Bond manages to disamorce the bomb
and to follow Khan back to India where he is preparing to flight. With the
help of Octopussy's troops (who have been betrayed by Khan) he attacks Khan's
palace, chases him to his airplane, saves Octpussy who had been made prisoner
during the attack and get rid of Kahn.
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Thursday, March 15th, 2007
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Bond recovered a large sum of money belonging to Sir Robert King, a personal
friend of “M”. When getting close to his money at MI6 headquarters, King gets
killed by an explosion; the bank notes have been covered with an explosive
triggered by King's lapel pin, which had been replaced by a fake. While
investigating about King, Bond notices that the money he retrieved is exactly
the sum that had been paid as a ransom to free King's daughter Elektra some
time ago. M had helped King to retrieve his daughter, but had refused to pay
the ransom, rather using the daughter as a bait. The kidnapper was Renard the
Anarchist, who took a bullet in the brain when MI6 was trying to kill him,
after Elektra managed to escape. The bullet is moving towards the center of
the brain, making him progressively loose his sense of touch and smell and
insensitive to pain. M sends Bond to protect Elektra. He meets her at a
pipeline construction site inherited from her father in Azerbaidjan but she
refuses his help, not trusting MI6 anymore. Bond later saves her life from an
attack; he also tears a piece of cloth bearing a russian marking from one
attacker. He then meets Valentin Zukowski, an acquaintance of his in his
casino in Baku. Zukowski recognizes the marking as that of an antiterrorist
unit of the Russian ministry of energy. He tells Bond that Elektra's pipeline
has several competitors who may be willing to get rid of her. Later, while
snooping around Elektra Bond notices that her chief of security is somehow
related to the former attackers. He follows him and takes his place at some
meeting with who were waiting for him. They trust him and take him to a
facility in Kazakhstan where nuclear weapon are being disabled and destroyed.
He meets there Dr. Christmas Jones, the nuclear scientist in charge of the
process and pretends to be a Russian scientist. Bond notices that Renard is
also working at the facility and is trying to steal plutonium. Renard manages
to escape with a nuclear head, blowing up everything, and Bond and Jones
barely escape themselves. Bond then suspects that Eletktra and Renard are
actually working together because of something they both said in different
occasions, but Elektra convices him otherwise. Elektra then lures M to Baku
and kidnapps her, while Bond is sent with Jones to investigate a possible
terrorist attack in the pipeline. Instead of defusing the bomb (which appears
not to be nuclear), he lets it explode in order to make Elektra believe that
he is dead. They then go meet Zukowsky again on the Caspian Sea, because Bond
made a connection between him and Elektra. Zukowsky admits providing her with
material with the help of a nephew of his who is the captain of a russian
submarine. He also tells Bond that they are currently in Istanbul, and takes
them there. They then discover that Renard has taken over the submarine and
plans to put the plutonium into its nuclear reactor in order to provoke a
meltdown that would look as an accident. This would destroy all the pipeline
of King's competitors. Bond and Jones get then caught by Renard because of
Zukowsky's assistant being an accomplice of him. Jones is taken to the
submarine while Bond is left with Elektra who tries to torture him, but he is
saved by Zukowsky who died just after. Bond kills Elektra and manages to enter
the submarine. There is then an big fight between Bond and Renard; Bond wins
and saves the world.
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Sunday, December 3rd, 2006
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James Bond's first mission as a 00 agent. A mission in Uganda fails lamely
when Bond wrecks havoc in an embassy while supposed to spy on a terrorist.
Asked by MI6 to take some time off, he continues his investigation which leads
him to the Bahamas, and from there to the Miami's Airport, where a new
prototype plane, scheduled for test flight is the target of another hired
terrorist. The attacks are ordered by Le Chiffre, the banker of the world's
terrorist organizations, who invests his customer's money in hasardous
financial gambles. Because of Bond's intervention, he just lost all the money
of an Ugandan rebel chief. In order to regain money, Le Chiffre organizes
a high stakes game of poker in a casino in Montenegro. MI6 sends Bond there,
since he's the best card player of the service and Le Chiffre's loss would
destroy his organization, accompanied with Vesper Lynd, from the Treasury, who
is assigned to keep an eye on Bond's spendings. The game is interrupted by
pauses, during which Bond is almost killed by the Ugandan rebel wanting his
money back from Le Chiffre and poisoned by Le Chiffre who doesn't want Bond to
win the game. Bond barely escapes the latter attent to his life, and finally
wins (thanks to Felix Leiter, a CIA agent who extended Bond's credits after
Lynd refused). Vesper Lynd gets then kidnapped by Le Chiffre and Bond rushes
to save her, but he gets caught and tortured by Le Chiffre who wants the
password that would give him access to Bond's bank account that was setup for
the poker game. Bond's life is saved just in time by an unknown third party.
He then leaves to Venice with Vesper (with whom he desperatly fell in love).
She however betrays him, withdrawing all Bond's (and Her Majesty's) money and
brings it to an unknown character. Bond follows her, but is attacked by the
henchmen of the unknown one. He doesn't get the money back, and fails to save
Vesper's life who commited suicide rather than facing Bond. He then learned
that she was trying to save the life of her fiancee, who was kidnapped by
terrorists (the same ones she made a deal with that saved Bond's life when
tortured by Le Chiffre). Vesper however had left Bond a note before leaving to
the bank, setting him on the trail of Mr. White, the one who took the money in
Venice. Bond tracks White down, gets the money back and his takes hie revenge
on him.
The script is quite similar to Ian Fleming's Casino Royale novel (although
terrorists, poker and Montenegro replace respectively the russian spies,
baccara and the french riviera, not mentioning the abusive usage made of
mobile phones, the Internet and electronic gadgets). The movie is quite
different from the others by its structure (the poker game is central to the
story although there is no action, except during the breaks) and the fact that
Bond fells in love. Also, it is definitely a prequel to the series, but
at the same time, it is clearly set in time after the previous episodes…
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June 13th, 2023 at 11:37
Watched it again.