I've been swamped with letters complaining about " The Bourne Ultimatum. The plot centers on a marathon high-stakes poker game, in which Bond will try to deprive Le Chiffre Mads Mikkelsen of 10 million or more pounds that would go to finance terrorism. Le Chiffre "The Cypher" has problems on his own, because he owes money big-time to the people who supply it to him.
Director Martin Campbell builds suspense in the extended poker game by not being afraid to focus for long seconds on the eyes of the two main opponents, which is all the more effective because Le Chiffre's left eye has tears of blood, inspiring a classic Bond line. Bond's absences from the table are of more than ordinary interest. This is Campbell's second Bond picture, after " Goldeneye " , but he breaks with his own and everyone else's tradition.
He's helped by Craig, who gives the sense of a hard man, wounded by life and his job, who nevertheless cares about people and right and wrong. To a certain degree, the earlier Bonds were lustful technicians.
With this one, since he has a big scene involving a merchant's house in Venice, we can excuse ourselves for observing that if you prick him, he bleeds. Roger Ebert was the film critic of the Chicago Sun-Times from until his death in In , he won the Pulitzer Prize for distinguished criticism. Rated PG for intense sequences of violent action, a scene of torture, sexual content and nudity.
Daniel Craig as James Bond. Eva Green as Vesper Lynd. Judi Dench as M. Jeffrey Wright as Felix Leiter. Giancarlo Giannini as Mathis. Mads Mikkelsen as Le Chiffre. Reviews Gold Bond. Director Martin Campbell. Top credits Director Martin Campbell. See more at IMDbPro.
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Judi Dench M as M. Caterina Murino Solange as Solange. Jesper Christensen Mr. White as Mr. Ivana Milicevic Valenka as Valenka. Tobias Menzies Villiers as Villiers. Claudio Santamaria Carlos as Carlos. Malcolm Sinclair Dryden as Dryden. Ludger Pistor Mendel as Mendel.
Joseph Millson Carter as Carter. Martin Campbell. More like this. Watch options. Storyline Edit. James Bond Daniel Craig goes on his first mission as a Bond finally pushes the man's face into an overflowing sink and holds him there until he falls to the floor, apparently dead. Dryden points a gun at Bond. We barely got to know each other. I suppose that's something. Bond remains passive, his face expressionless. Dryden says that Bond "needn't worry, the second is--" at which point Bond kills Dryden.
Bond puts his pistol away saying, "Yes, considerably. In flashback, Fisher recovers from Bond's attempt to drown him and picks up his pistol. The frame instantly shifts to the series' iconic "gun barrel" sequence. Bond spins around and shoots the man. Blood runs down the frame, prompting the opening titles. The scene shifts to Uganda, where the terrorist group known as the Lord's Resistance Army is meeting with Le Chiffre , a private banker to terrorist groups around the world.
The broker for the deal is a Mr. The Lord's Resistance Army, represented by a man named Steven Obanno , agree to allow the money to be loaned to Le Chiffre for his nefarious purposes. In Madagascar, Bond is working with another MI6 agent, Carter , monitoring a terrorist, Mollaka , who is gambling on a fight between a cobra and a mongoose. Carter, who is inexperienced, is exposed after Mollaka gets a cell phone call and the terrorist bolts from the scene.
Bond chases Mollaka, who is an experienced "free runner", who leads Bond through a construction site, onto several cranes and finally to the Nambutu embassy where he seeks asylum.
Bond charges into the embassy, in direct contravention of international law and his orders, and catches Mollaka. Bond fights his way through the halls of the embassy and finds himself surrounded by armed guards. The ambassador appears and orders Bond to let Mollaka go. Bond shoots Mollaka and a nearby gas tank and escapes in the explosion.
He also steals the backpack Mollaka was carrying. Searching through the backpack, he finds a cell phone and a bomb. Bond examines the man's messages briefly, seeing one with an American phone number and the word "ellipsis. Back at MI6 , M is furious that 's violent actions were caught on tape at the Nambutu embassy. Bond later sneaks into M's home and hacks her top-level clearance so he can trace where the cell phone call originated from.
When M enters, she is startled and lectures him on proper protocol and conduct. She thought it was a mistake to give him 00 status. Bond assures her that "the life expectancy of a 00 is brief, so your mistake will be short-lived. She also tells him to go on a brief vacation until she can decide how best to deal with him. As Bond goes to leave, M tells Bond to never break into her house again something he will do again in Skyfall.
Bond had discovered that the call to Mollaka originated in the Bahamas, so he goes there to investigate who made the call and why. He ends up finding a middleman, Alex Dimitrios , who was working for Le Chiffre and that he was hired to find someone who could carry out a task for Le Chiffre.
Bond meets Dmitrios and plays poker with him, winning his Aston Martin in the process. Bond uses the Aston to finagle a romantic evening with Dmitrios' spurned wife, Solange , to get information about her husband.
She tells Bond that Dmitrios is going to Miami. Bond follows him there where he confronts Dimitrios, after seeing him put a bag away for someone to pick up later. Bond kills Dimitrios when he's held at knifepoint; however, the bag goes missing and Bond follows the man, Carlos , hired for Mollaka's job. Bond follows Carlos to Miami International Airport, where he pulls a security uniform out of the bag and puts it on. He slips into the secure area of the airport and Bond follows him, having figured out "ellipsis" was the security code to get through the door.
M calls Bond to tell him Le Chiffre will have Carlos destroy the prototype for a large airline named Skyfleet. The prototype is the largest passenger aircraft in the world and destroying it will bankrupt Skyfleet. Carlos sets off the emergency sprinkler system in the building to cause a diversion, forcing everybody out of the airport and slips out onto the tarmac.
Carlos attaches an explosive charge disguised as a keyring to a refueling tanker and starts driving it towards the plane. However, Bond manages to leap onto the tanker. The two have a vicious fight all the way around the runways while being chased by the Miami-Dade Police.
Eventually, Carlos leaps off the truck, and Bond is barely able to stop the tanker from hitting the plane. Carlos smiles as Bond is arrested and sets off the charge.
Upon returning to Nassau, Bond discovers that Solange had been murdered, when MI6 find her drowned corpse in a fishing boat net. M explains she was tortured and killed by Le Chiffre because she was the only one left alive and he assumed she talked. Le Chiffre's plan was to "short-sell" hundreds of millions of dollars in Skyfleet stock and, in destroying their prototype, cause their stock to plummet and send them into bankruptcy. Now a marked man, Le Chiffre must find another way to earn the money back so his investors will not kill him.
M informs Bond of the poker game at the Casino Royale , which is in Montenegro, and agrees to let Bond continue the mission since he's the best poker player in the service. M also implants a homing device in Bond's left forearm so she can track him anywhere. The British Government put up the money and send along Vesper Lynd , a representative of HM Treasury, to monitor Bond and give a go, no-go should he lose the money.
They talk on the train about each other, Vesper commenting on his cold nature and Bond remarking on how Vesper is retentive. Each poker player has their money in a Swiss bank in Escrow while they play, and each one has a password to keep the money secured.
Vesper has the account number, but only knows the password. On the first hand, loses a chunk of cash to figure out how Le Chiffre bluffs his physical "tell" involves him placing his left hand near his wounded eye ; however, Vesper is not at all impressed, thinking Bond is inept.
After a lengthy round of hands, a break is called. Bond places a tracking device in Le Chiffre's inhaler and takes Vesper back to their room. Le Chiffre is called back to his room by his girlfriend, Valenka. However, he was confronted by Obanno and his henchman, demanding his money back.
They threaten to cut off Valenka's arm; however, Le Chiffre doesn't acquiesce, even with this mutlation.
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