Casino Royale The Rewatchables
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Casino Royale

Most Rewatchable Scene

Construction chase; train conversation; climactic poker, initial choice reconsidered

In the discussion (24)
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  • The construction-site pursuit is an exceptional practical-action set piece, especially the returned thrown gun and fighting on precarious structures.
  • The instruction to keep the suspect alive creates anticipation that Bond will kill him and face consequences.
  • Craig emerging from the water is nominated for its striking physical impact.
  • Winning the car and valet ticket, then driving the woman in a circle to his hotel, is a memorable early Bond sequence.
  • The airport fight is enjoyable though below the best set pieces, particularly the implausible fun of fighting inside a car.
  • Bond vaulting into the airport vehicle, swerving and defeating the attacker supplies solid action.
  • Bond and Vesper’s first train conversation is an all-time verbal duel, with sharp mutual deductions and exceptional chemistry.
  • The early main-game sequence establishes Le Chiffre’s apparent tell and Bond’s elaborate martini order.
  • The stairway fight is praised.
  • Bond’s costly misreading of the tell drives another poker sequence.
  • The poisoning scene is an outstanding four-minute crisis, with a faint Pulp Fiction comparison and unusually frantic Bond filmmaking.
  • The climactic poker game is nominated for later discussion.
  • The Venice water fight is nominated.
  • The shower scene is an additional favorite.
  • The torture scene is explicitly uncomfortable rather than a favorite; the possibility of Bond passing out is raised.
  • The climactic poker hand is the initial final scene choice, later reconsidered.
  • The train conversation receives a separate final scene choice.
  • The opening construction chase receives a final choice and prompts the poker chooser to concede it may be right.
  • Bond returning from poisoning to win the climactic hand is likened to Jordan’s flu game.
  • The hand reveals escalate from a high flush to eights full, aces full and finally Bond’s straight flush, with the first hand initially mislabeled a straight then corrected.
  • The open-ended straight-flush draw is admired as a thrilling poker situation.
  • Mikkelsen’s devastated losing expression ranks just behind Damon’s initial Rounders loss.
  • The black-and-white opening establishing Double-O status is belatedly praised.
  • The rolling Aston Martin crash and apparent near-collision with Vesper are spectacular.