It has all the earmarks of a movie that has been written and re-written and re-written innumerable times until it makes no sense. It is stupid and smarmy but not one bit entertaining. Imagaine how hard it must have been to have assembled this much talent and still produced such a dud! Other than the memorable music from Herb Alpert, nothing positive can be mentioned about the movie. It's amazing that such a stellar cast was assembled and such a rotten and incomprehensible mess resulted! Think about it folks, the movie features an incredible cast of expensive talent and STILL is unwatchable. Reviewed by MartinHafer 2 / 10 One of the biggest wastes of talent ever seen It's still one hell of a mess though, worth watching only so you can wonder how they got it so wrong. The stuff set in Scotland is completely interminable, for example, although things do pick up a little for the more traditional climax. CASINO ROYALE has an episodic structure that is generally hard to watch as most of the supposed funny bits are anything but. An appears-in-anything Ursula Andress is the crumpet, while the supporting cast in this bloated production is packed with cameoing stars like Deborah Kerr, John Huston, William Holden, and even one Woody Allen playing 'Jimmy Bond'. Meanwhile, we get a storyline involving a past-his-prime David Niven as an elderly Bond who recruits various newcomers to the fold, including a poor Peter Sellers.

Orson Welles has a few scenes as Le Chiffre, for example, but what happens to him is totally out of left field. The storyline only loosely follows that of the Fleming novel, despite the misleading title. This is a film filled with extremely broad comedy, touches of surreal humour, and a general lack of both cohesion and coherence so that for most of the running time you're wondering what the hell you're watching. A troubled production leads to a very troubled picture in which new meaning is brought to the phrase 'scattershot'.

Reviewed by Leofwine_draca 3 / 10 Messiest film everĬASINO ROYALE, a 1967 spoof of the whole James Bond spy genre, has to be one of the messiest films ever made.

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