On paper, this film had all the elements to be something unique and interesting but at every point makes the worst choice it can.

| Original Score: D | Aug 28, 2022

many a Sunday afternoon television viewer has tried to puzzle out the strange, compromised, parallel narrative here, with barely a scene in which the various stars actually interact

| Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 24, 2022

A tone-deaf spoof. Woody Allen steals the show.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Sep 25, 2021

A few innovative sets, a wealth of eye-popping colors, and oodles of bared midriffs can't redeem this juvenile experiment in adolescent fantasy.

| Original Score: 2/10 | Aug 24, 2020

I cannot even recommend the film in any half-hearted manner. It's insulting to moviegoers, it's insulting to me, and it's insulting to Bond.

| Jul 7, 2020

If Casino Royale has what passes for its heart set on dealing the final death-blow to an over-worked legend, how sad that it didn't perform the necessary obsequies with style.

| Jan 29, 2019

Things pick up a little bit when Orson Welles, Peter Sellers, and Woody Allen stumble into the scene, but the total experience remains boringly incoherent.

| Mar 30, 2018

The melodrama has been staged on a lavish scale and everybody quite literally acts out the window.

| Dec 30, 2017

A surfeit of screenwriters (eight, including Billy Wilder) and directors (five, including John Huston) lends the whole a chaotic, disjointed air, but there is much fun to be had along the way.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 28, 2015

Proponents of this dreadfully indulgent cabaret, which thumbs its nose at coherence, have called its nigh-impenetrable plot the sincerest form of satire. That's like citing the indecipherable nature of Zapf Dingbats as a foremost send-up of language.

| Original Score: 1.5/5 | Nov 11, 2012

A magnificent mess, it's either the greatest argument against LSD or the worst.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Oct 23, 2012

Silly 007 spoof tamer than Austin Powers.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Dec 14, 2010

Despite being not officially a Bond film this is good solid, entertaining action.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 13, 2008

Poor 007 is now lost in a hall of distorting mirrors.

| Oct 13, 2008

Chaotic and astonishingly unfunny.

| Jul 22, 2008

Peter Sellers has some amusing gags as the gambler, the chance of dressing up in various guises and a neat near-seduction scene with Ursula Andress.

| Aug 15, 2007

A mess. Casino Royale is two hours and eleven minutes of non sequitur.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Aug 15, 2007

Out of five directors -- only McGrath manages to connect with this brontosaurian James Bond parody.

| Aug 15, 2007

Now Craig assumes the mantle, and you know, he does OK.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 16, 2006

No less than five directors, including John Huston, and eight writers, including Billy Wilder and Ben Hecht, tried to salvage this lengthy, laden all-star Bond spoof--to no avail.

| Original Score: D | Nov 11, 2006