An early review of "Casino Royale" has gone up at The Sun and proclaims Daniel Craig "the best Bond since Connery... Craig makes Brosnan look a bit girlie in comparison". The paper also singles out the action sequences (notably the free running sequence), assorted performances and director Martin Campbell.
After spending most of the article praising the film, it does have some criticism of the film's editing and runtime - "Like the novel, it suffers from a lack of sharpness in the plot. You will need to concentrate as you follow the story because, running at a whopping two hours and 20 minutes, the movie is 20 minutes too long. A healthy bit of editing would have avoided confusing scenes where some characters appear and disappear inexplicably. And, often, the characters do things for no apparent reason".
A new version of the "Casino Royale" theme by Chris Cornell has gone online, utilising more instruments and music. The good news is it flattens out that jarring tonal change between verse and chorus, bad news is it simply sounds too busy now (and the trumpets really annoying). The music video premieres next Monday on MTV.
Also it's officially been confirmed by UK newspaper The Mirror Director Martin Campbell that Ewan McGregor was the first choice for the role of James Bond but he turned the producers down.
Finally a March 27th 2007 release date has been announced for the DVD in the UK, putting the film/DVD window at a relatively average four and a bit months.
