007- | Casino Royale Patched

Then came Die Another Day —a film that, with its invisible car and tsunami-surfing scene, pushed the franchise into self-parody. By 2004, Bond was broken. Enter (2006).

The message is clear: This Bond bleeds. He makes mistakes. He blows up an embassy and gets chewed out by M (Judi Dench, the only actor carried over, playing the part with ferocious maternal disappointment). 007- Casino Royale

Casino Royale opens with a brilliant misdirect. Traditional Bond films open with a stunt-heavy cold sequence. This film opens in grainy black-and-white. We are in Prague. Bond has just earned his “00” status. His first kill is not a supervillain, but a traitorous section chief. Then came Die Another Day —a film that,