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The wait for 007 to arrive on physical 4K has been long and somewhat frustrating, especially given the fact that many of the classic films have been available digitally in 4K for a while now on iTunes/AppleTV and Amazon (though without HDR). But it only makes sense that when MGM did finally try this franchise out on UHD discs, it would be in its newest incarnation.

007: The Daniel Craig Collection includes four films—Casino Royale, Quantum of Solace, Skyfall, and SPECTRE—in both Blu-ray and 4K Ultra HD in one set. Let's take a look at each film in turn.

Casino Royale (2006)

Daniel Craig's first outing as 007 is not only his best, it's one of the best films in the Bond franchise to date. Producers Barbara Broccoli and Michael G. Wilson returned to the series' roots by adapting the very first Ian Fleming Bond novel for the big screen.

As it opens, MI6 agent James Bond (Craig) has just been granted 00 status by M (Judi Dench). His first act is to break into an African embassy to kill a wanted bomb-maker. But reckless as this is, Bond's tracking a larger terrorist network that reveals itself when its banker Le Chiffre (Mads Mikkelsen) loses a huge sum of money betting against an airline stock—an airline he meant to bankrupt with another bombing. When his plot is foiled by Bond, Le Chiffre needs to recoup that money fast before the dangerous people it belonged to realize what's happened. So he arranges a high stakes poker game at Casino Royale in Montenegro, a game he means to win. M stakes Bond in the game—if he can win it, Le Chiffre will have no one but MI6 to turn to, cutting a major source of terrorist revenue and revealing their whole network in one stroke. But matters are complicated when Bond falls for Vesper Lynd (Eva Green), the British Treasury agent assigned to watch Her Majesty's money, and Le Chiffre's gameplay begins to turn deadly.

What's interesting about Casino Royale is the way it reinvents the Bond franchise by defetishizing its cars, gadgets, and villains without removing them from the formula completely. It also strips the Bond character to his essence; he's a hard bastard to begin with, but this story breaks him. And it's not Le Chiffre who does it, but Vesper, by revealing to Bond a heart he didn't think he had left, thus leaving him open and exposed. What people tend to miss is that he's still broken when this film concludes; the 007 character as we know it isn't fully formed until the end of the next one. Green and co-star Giancarlo Giannini (as MI6's contact in Montenegro, René Mathis) are outstanding and dimensional supporting characters, and each has terrific chemistry with Craig. Vesper's introduction to 007 on the train to Casino Royale is one of the smartest and sharpest pieces of writing in the history of the Bond franchise. The film's direction is efficient and its action is fast and brutal. And retaining Dench as M (a role she began with GoldenEye (1995) in the Brosnan era) was a masterstroke and a nice bit of stabilizing continuity for the franchise's latest turn.

Casino Royale was shot on 35 mm photochemical film and finished as a 2K Digital Intermediate at the 2.39:1 scope ratio. For its UHD release it was upsampled to 4K and graded for high dynamic range (both HDR10 and Dolby Vision are included). Note that this version of the film is the Extended Cut, released on disc in the US for the first time, but it's only 17 seconds longer (it includes a few more graphic moments during the B&W opening fight scene and the later stairwell fight at Casino Royale that were trimmed for ratings). Detail shows a noticeable uptick from the previous HD presentation, though the image has a slightly coarse and processed look that one presumes was baked into the DI. It doesn't appear that the studio has rescanned the original camera negative in native 4K, which is a shame. But the image does look very good nonetheless. Grain is moderate, the restrained HDR grade makes shadows deeper and highlights a bit bolder, and the wider gamut enriches the film's palette to a satisfying degree. Audio is the same English 5.1 DTS-HD Master Audio mix that was found on the previous Blu-ray. As before it's excellent, with a big soundstage, atmospheric surround play, excellent clarity, and firm bass. But it's a shame that MGM didn't spring for a new Atmos track. Additional audio options include Spanish, Czech, Hungarian and Polish 5.1 Dolby Digital and French, Castilian, German, and Italian 5.1 DTS, with subtitles available in English, Spanish, French, Castilian, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, German, Italian, Norwegian, Swedish, Traditional and Simplified Chinese, Czech, Hungarian, Korean, Polish, and Portuguese.

The only extra on the 4K disc itself is:

• Audio Commentary with the Crew hosted by Barbara Broccoli and Michael G. Wilson

Note that there are optional subtitles available for this commentary in English, French, German, Italian, and Spanish. The package does also include the film on Blu-ray (the same disc that's in the Bond 50 box set), which includes the same commentary and adds the following (in the original SD and HD):

• Deleted Scenes (4 scenes – 7:32 in all)
• The Road to Casino Royale (26:35)
• Ian Fleming's Incredible Creation (21:16)
• James Bond in the Bahamas (24:17)
• Ian Fleming: Secret Road to Paradise (24:29)
• Death in Venice (23:20)
• Becoming Bond (26:18)
• James Bond for Real (23:34)
• Chris Cornell's You Know My Name Music Video (4:09)

It's decent material, but missing are several features that were included on the previous Sony Blu-ray versions, including the BonusView PiP visual commentary with director Martin Campbell and producer Michael G. Wilson, the Know Your Double-O trivia quiz, the Bond Girls Are Forever and The Art of the Freerun featurettes, 6 Filmmaker Profiles featurettes, a storyboard presentation for the 'Freerun' sequence, and the Catching a Plane scene deconstruction. Losing all of that is disappointing, so be sure to keep your previous discs if you wish to retain it. You do at least get Digital codes in the packaging (and there are two of them, which may include both HD and 4K).

Film Rating: A
Disc Ratings (Video/Audio/Extras): B+/A/B-

Quantum of Solace (2008)

Quantum of Solace is a film that many Bond fans deride, which is a shame because it's actually better that most give it credit for. The problem is that fans were expecting a traditional Bond sequel, and this isn't that at all, nor does it stand alone. It's a direct continuation of the story of Casino Royale—in many ways, the second half that story. If Casino was about breaking Bond, this one is about Bond putting himself back together again, forging himself into the iconic MI6 agent we know he must become. It's about Bond trying to understand what happened with Vesper and getting a bit of payback. If you care about the character of Bond as much as the formula, this film has much to offer. True, the environmental theme was off-putting for some (though it's entirely plausible in today's world) and the film doesn't really have a compelling villain. It does, however, get points for the return of Giancarlo Giannini and Jeffrey Wright (as Felix Lighter), and for a terrific sequence set at a performance of Puccini's opera Tosca in Austria.

The film opens just minutes after Casino Royale ended. Bond has captured the mysterious Mr. White (Jesper Christensen), who was connected to Vesper's death. But after delivering him to M (Judi Dench) at an Italian black site, White escapes with the help of a trusted MI6 agent. That means White is just the tip of the iceberg of a much more powerful and far reaching criminal organization. Clues at the agent's apartment lead Bond to an assassin in Haiti, who's been hired to kill a woman named Camille (Olga Kurylenko). She leads Bond to the elusive entrepreneur Dominic Greene (Mathieu Amalric), who's working with the CIA and local warlords to buy up worthless land in Bolivia. But Greene's real loyalty is to a group called Quantum, bringing Bond full circle in his quest to understand and avenge Vesper's death.

Quantum of Solace was also shot on 35 mm photochemical film and finished as a 2K Digital Intermediate at the 2.39:1 scope ratio. For its UHD release it was upsampled to 4K and graded for high dynamic range (both HDR10 and Dolby Vision are included). Detail again shows a nice uptick vs the previous Blu-ray edition, and this time it's cleaner and less processed looking too. The HDR grade is restrained, but grants the image truly black shadows with bold highlights. The audio is the same English 5.1 DTS-HD Master Audio mix that was found on the previous Blu-ray. As before it's excellent, with a wide soundstage, atmospheric surrounds, excellent clarity, and firm bass. But again, it's a shame MGM didn't spring for an Atmos mix. Additional audio options include English 5.1 Descriptive Audio, Spanish, Czech, Hungarian and Polish 5.1 Dolby Digital, and French, Castilian, German, and Italian 5.1 DTS, with subtitles available in English for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing, Spanish, French, Castilian, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, German, Italian, Norwegian, Swedish, Traditional and Simplified Chinese, Czech, Hungarian, Korean, Polish, and Portuguese.

There are no extras on the 4K disc, sadly, and that's a shame because there are rumors that director Marc Foster recorded an audio commentary for the film that was never released. Onlines88.us.org casino games free online. You do at least get the previous Blu-ray version of the film (the same one included in the Bond 50 set) that adds the following (in SD and HD):

• Director Marc Foster (2:45)
• Bond on Location (24:45)
• Start of Shooting (2:54)
• On Location (3:14)
• Olga Kurylenko and the Boat Chase (2:14)
• Jack White and Alicia Keys' Another Way to Die Music Video (4:30)
• The Music (2:36)
• Crew Files (3 segments – 45:30 in all)
• Theatrical Teaser Trailer #1 (1:51)
• Theatrical Trailer #2 (2:23)

This is actually a lot less material that it appears to be and again there's no commentary. It is, at least, everything from the previous Blu-ray release. And you do get Digital copy codes, so that's something.

Film Rating: B+
Disc Ratings (Video/Audio/Extras): A-/A/C+

Skyfall (2012)

Directed by Sam Mendes (Road to Perdition, American Beauty), Skyfall marked the Craig era's return to a more traditional style of Bond film, with gadgets, a supervillian, and the all-important Aston Martin DB5. But following a strong start and ominous foreshadowing, the film's villain (Javier Bardem) is meant to be strange and unsettling but is weirdly mirthful instead and kills the momentum. And after M's great Tennyson speech, the film's conclusion offers too many plot contrivances (including Q's lapses of infosec and someone forgetting to switch off a flashlight) to be truly satisfying. It's also a little odd that this is only Craig's third 007 film and yet his character is already regarded as long-in-the-tooth. Still, the Roger Deakins cinematography makes this by far the best looking of the recent Bond films, and much is gained by the addition of Naomie Harris (Moneypenny), Ben Whishaw (Q), and Ralph Fiennes (Gareth Mallory) to the cast.

The plot features Bond attempting to retrieve a list of Western undercover intelligence agents that's been stolen by a computer hacker, an operation that results in Bond being shot and presumed dead. He resurfaces three months later when MI6's London HQ is bombed, an event that's meant to send M (Judi Dench) a message. With her superiors keen to retire her, and the hacker threatening to release the names of agents from the stolen list, M needs Bond back in the field whether he passes muster or not. But his investigation leads him to Shanghai and soon to the hacker, Raoul Silva (Bardem), who's tied to M's past and wants revenge against her. When Silva strikes MI6 for a second time, Bond's only option is to take M to his family's abandoned estate in Scotland for safekeeping, a place known as Skyfall.

The good news is that Skyfall was shot digitally in ARRIRAW and Redcode RAW (at 2.8 and 5K) and finished as a native 4K Digital Intermediate at the 2.39:1 aspect ratio. That means it looks fantastic here on Ultra HD, with crisp and highly refined detail and texturing. Combined with a light-handed HDR grade (both HDR10 and Dolby Vision are available) that renders ink-black shadows and luminous highlights, as well as a wider gamut that significantly enriches the colors, the result is a winner image-wise. A highlight is the film's nighttime skyscraper fight scene (in Chapter 12) that's backlit by vibrant neon signage on the opposite building. At the risk of repeating myself, the audio is once again the same English 5.1 DTS-HD Master Audio mix found on the previous Blu-ray. It delivers a wide soundstage, atmospheric surrounds, good clarity, and strong bass. But again, MGM should have sprung for an Atmos mix. Additional audio options include English 5.1 Descriptive Audio, Spanish, Czech, Hungarian and Polish 5.1 Dolby Digital, and French, Castilian, German, and Italian 5.1 DTS, with subtitles available in English for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing, Spanish, French, Castilian, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, German, Italian, Norwegian, Swedish, Traditional and Simplified Chinese, Czech, Hungarian, Korean, Polish, and Portuguese.

The 4K disc itself includes two extras:

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• Audio Commentary by Sam Mendes
• Audio Commentary by Barbara Broccoli, Michael G. Wilson, and Dennis Gassner

There are optional subtitles for each of these tracks in English, French, Castilian, German, and Italian—a nice touch. You also get the film on Blu-ray, which has the same commentaries and adds the following (all in HD):

• Shooting Bond documentary (14 parts – 59:24 in all)
• Skyfall Premiere (4:28)
• Theatrical Trailer (2:31)
• Soundtrack Promotional Spot (:40)

The extras are a little thin, but the commentaries are interesting and there are some nice moments in the documentary, particularly the bit on The Death of M with Dench. Digital codes are included in the package on a paper insert. Casino royale vesper song.

Film Rating: B-
Disc Ratings (Video/Audio/Extras): A+/A/B-

SPECTRE (2015)

While SPECTRE earns points for trying to recapture the glory of classic Bond, it ultimately feels like a heartless, paint-by-numbers exercise the pieces of which don't add up to anything. Craig is almost humorless here, playing 007 with a dour ruthlessness it's hard to empathize with. There's a telling moment when Bond discovers a videotape labeled 'Vesper Lynd – Interrogation.' This woman was the love of his life, someone he nearly gave up everything for, yet Bond simply tosses it away. The film's supporting cast members are good, but seldom feel integral to the story until the final act. The belle of the ball is Léa Seydoux, who doesn't get nearly enough screen time for you to buy that Bond could care for her. And the filmmakers' pointless effort to hide the fact that Christoph Waltz was playing the franchise's iconic supervillian, Ernst Blofeld, isn't helped by a ridiculously contrived plot as to the character's origins.

SPECTRE is an almost complete misfire from start to finish. But it starts in a promising way, with an opening set amid Mexico City's Day of the Dead celebration that aspires to give Welles' Touch of Evil a run for its money. Bond was sent there to kill an assassin by the former M (Judi Dench), who named the man in a final message delivered after her death. She's also asked Bond to attend the man's funeral in Rome, which eventually leads him back to Mr. White and his estranged daughter, Madeline Swann (Seydoux), both of whom are hiding in the Austrian Alps. From there, the trail of clues takes 007 and Swann to North Africa, where Blofeld has been waiting for them in his secret desert lair. Meanwhile, back in Her Majesty's Kingdom, the new M (Ralph Fiennes), Q, Moneypenny, and Tanner must contend with the obsolescence of MI6 at the hands of Max Denbigh (Andrew Scott, ex-Sherlock), who believes that electronic surveillance and drones can replace the 00 section. Eventually, the two plot threads converge… and logic goes right out the window.

After going all-digital with Skyfall, SPECTRE was shot mostly on 35 mm photochemical film again, though some scenes were still captured digitally in ARRIRAW (at 3.4 and 6.5K). It was finished as a native 4K Digital Intermediate at the 2.39 'scope' ratio. For its UHD release, the film has been graded for high dynamic range (both HDR10 and Dolby Vision are available). The film looks fantastic here on disc, though I would say that Skyfall has the slight edge on it, not for its digital capture but rather for Roger Deakins' lovely cinematography. Detail is crisp and clean, texturing is refined, shadows and highlights are appropriately enhanced, while the film's somewhat muted color palette is more nuanced for the wider gamut. As is the case with all four of these films, the Dolby Vision offers just a little more pop and dimensionality (especially on the native 4K titles). Primary audio this time is English 7.1 DTS-HD Master Audio, the same mix found on the previous Blu-ray. It delivers a pleasingly wide soundstage, with lively and atmospheric surrounds, excellent clarity, and firm bass. (But yes, we wish MGM had sprung for Atmos.) Additional audio options include English 5.1 Descriptive Audio, Spanish, Czech, Hungarian and Polish 5.1 Dolby Digital, and French, Castilian, German, and Italian 5.1 DTS, with subtitles available in English for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing, Spanish, French, Castilian, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, German, Italian, Norwegian, Swedish, Traditional and Simplified Chinese, Czech, Hungarian, Korean, Polish, and Portuguese.

Unfortunately, there are no extras on the UHD disc, but you do get the previous Blu-ray edition, which offers the following (all in HD):

• SPECTRE: Bond's Biggest Opening Sequence (20:12)
• Director – Sam Mendes (1:29)
• Supercars (1:41)
• Introducing Léa Seydoux and Monica Bellucci (1:42)
• Action (1:37)
• Music (1:50)
• Guinness World Record (1:18)
• Gallery (20 images)
• Teaser Trailer (1:32)
• Theatrical Trailer 1 (2:31)
• Theatrical Trailer 2 (1:10)

Unfortunately, this content is EPK filler material at its worst, glossy from start to finish and completely lacking in depth, interest, or heart (not unlike like the film itself). There's not even an audio commentary, which might at least have shed a bit of light on this train wreck. Again, you do at least get Digital copy codes on paper inserts in the packaging.

Film Rating: C
Disc Ratings (Video/Audio/Extras): A/A/D

So those are the films.

Ultimately, (and once you get past any shock you might be experiencing upon learning that I like Quantum of Solace slightly more than Skyfall), I would imagine that most Bond fans will find MGM's 007: The Daniel Craig Collection worth its current $40 sale price on Amazon. However, I strongly suspect that this is MGM's litmus test for releasing the rest of the Bond films on physical 4K UHD. So while I know many of you would prefer to wait for an eventual Complete Bond 4K set, if do wish to see the Connery, Moore, Dalton, and Brosnan films on Ultra HD one day, it's probably a good idea to send the studio that message by jumping on this initial release now.

- Bill Hunt

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Casino Royale (4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray)

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James Bond goes on his first ever mission as a 00. Le Chiffre is a banker to the world's terrorists. He is participating in a poker game at Montenegro, where he must win back his money, in order to stay safe among the terrorist market. The boss of MI6, known simply as M sends Bond, along with Vesper Lynd to attend this game and prevent Le Chiffre from winning. Bond, using help from Felix Leiter, Mathis and having Vesper pose as his wife, enters the most important poker game in his already dangerous career. But if Bond defeats Le Chiffre, will he and Vesper Lynd remain safe?

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Casino Royale

The film opens just minutes after Casino Royale ended. Bond has captured the mysterious Mr. White (Jesper Christensen), who was connected to Vesper's death. But after delivering him to M (Judi Dench) at an Italian black site, White escapes with the help of a trusted MI6 agent. That means White is just the tip of the iceberg of a much more powerful and far reaching criminal organization. Clues at the agent's apartment lead Bond to an assassin in Haiti, who's been hired to kill a woman named Camille (Olga Kurylenko). She leads Bond to the elusive entrepreneur Dominic Greene (Mathieu Amalric), who's working with the CIA and local warlords to buy up worthless land in Bolivia. But Greene's real loyalty is to a group called Quantum, bringing Bond full circle in his quest to understand and avenge Vesper's death.

Quantum of Solace was also shot on 35 mm photochemical film and finished as a 2K Digital Intermediate at the 2.39:1 scope ratio. For its UHD release it was upsampled to 4K and graded for high dynamic range (both HDR10 and Dolby Vision are included). Detail again shows a nice uptick vs the previous Blu-ray edition, and this time it's cleaner and less processed looking too. The HDR grade is restrained, but grants the image truly black shadows with bold highlights. The audio is the same English 5.1 DTS-HD Master Audio mix that was found on the previous Blu-ray. As before it's excellent, with a wide soundstage, atmospheric surrounds, excellent clarity, and firm bass. But again, it's a shame MGM didn't spring for an Atmos mix. Additional audio options include English 5.1 Descriptive Audio, Spanish, Czech, Hungarian and Polish 5.1 Dolby Digital, and French, Castilian, German, and Italian 5.1 DTS, with subtitles available in English for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing, Spanish, French, Castilian, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, German, Italian, Norwegian, Swedish, Traditional and Simplified Chinese, Czech, Hungarian, Korean, Polish, and Portuguese.

There are no extras on the 4K disc, sadly, and that's a shame because there are rumors that director Marc Foster recorded an audio commentary for the film that was never released. Onlines88.us.org casino games free online. You do at least get the previous Blu-ray version of the film (the same one included in the Bond 50 set) that adds the following (in SD and HD):

• Director Marc Foster (2:45)
• Bond on Location (24:45)
• Start of Shooting (2:54)
• On Location (3:14)
• Olga Kurylenko and the Boat Chase (2:14)
• Jack White and Alicia Keys' Another Way to Die Music Video (4:30)
• The Music (2:36)
• Crew Files (3 segments – 45:30 in all)
• Theatrical Teaser Trailer #1 (1:51)
• Theatrical Trailer #2 (2:23)

This is actually a lot less material that it appears to be and again there's no commentary. It is, at least, everything from the previous Blu-ray release. And you do get Digital copy codes, so that's something.

Film Rating: B+
Disc Ratings (Video/Audio/Extras): A-/A/C+

Skyfall (2012)

Directed by Sam Mendes (Road to Perdition, American Beauty), Skyfall marked the Craig era's return to a more traditional style of Bond film, with gadgets, a supervillian, and the all-important Aston Martin DB5. But following a strong start and ominous foreshadowing, the film's villain (Javier Bardem) is meant to be strange and unsettling but is weirdly mirthful instead and kills the momentum. And after M's great Tennyson speech, the film's conclusion offers too many plot contrivances (including Q's lapses of infosec and someone forgetting to switch off a flashlight) to be truly satisfying. It's also a little odd that this is only Craig's third 007 film and yet his character is already regarded as long-in-the-tooth. Still, the Roger Deakins cinematography makes this by far the best looking of the recent Bond films, and much is gained by the addition of Naomie Harris (Moneypenny), Ben Whishaw (Q), and Ralph Fiennes (Gareth Mallory) to the cast.

The plot features Bond attempting to retrieve a list of Western undercover intelligence agents that's been stolen by a computer hacker, an operation that results in Bond being shot and presumed dead. He resurfaces three months later when MI6's London HQ is bombed, an event that's meant to send M (Judi Dench) a message. With her superiors keen to retire her, and the hacker threatening to release the names of agents from the stolen list, M needs Bond back in the field whether he passes muster or not. But his investigation leads him to Shanghai and soon to the hacker, Raoul Silva (Bardem), who's tied to M's past and wants revenge against her. When Silva strikes MI6 for a second time, Bond's only option is to take M to his family's abandoned estate in Scotland for safekeeping, a place known as Skyfall.

The good news is that Skyfall was shot digitally in ARRIRAW and Redcode RAW (at 2.8 and 5K) and finished as a native 4K Digital Intermediate at the 2.39:1 aspect ratio. That means it looks fantastic here on Ultra HD, with crisp and highly refined detail and texturing. Combined with a light-handed HDR grade (both HDR10 and Dolby Vision are available) that renders ink-black shadows and luminous highlights, as well as a wider gamut that significantly enriches the colors, the result is a winner image-wise. A highlight is the film's nighttime skyscraper fight scene (in Chapter 12) that's backlit by vibrant neon signage on the opposite building. At the risk of repeating myself, the audio is once again the same English 5.1 DTS-HD Master Audio mix found on the previous Blu-ray. It delivers a wide soundstage, atmospheric surrounds, good clarity, and strong bass. But again, MGM should have sprung for an Atmos mix. Additional audio options include English 5.1 Descriptive Audio, Spanish, Czech, Hungarian and Polish 5.1 Dolby Digital, and French, Castilian, German, and Italian 5.1 DTS, with subtitles available in English for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing, Spanish, French, Castilian, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, German, Italian, Norwegian, Swedish, Traditional and Simplified Chinese, Czech, Hungarian, Korean, Polish, and Portuguese.

The 4K disc itself includes two extras:

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• Audio Commentary by Sam Mendes
• Audio Commentary by Barbara Broccoli, Michael G. Wilson, and Dennis Gassner

There are optional subtitles for each of these tracks in English, French, Castilian, German, and Italian—a nice touch. You also get the film on Blu-ray, which has the same commentaries and adds the following (all in HD):

• Shooting Bond documentary (14 parts – 59:24 in all)
• Skyfall Premiere (4:28)
• Theatrical Trailer (2:31)
• Soundtrack Promotional Spot (:40)

The extras are a little thin, but the commentaries are interesting and there are some nice moments in the documentary, particularly the bit on The Death of M with Dench. Digital codes are included in the package on a paper insert. Casino royale vesper song.

Film Rating: B-
Disc Ratings (Video/Audio/Extras): A+/A/B-

SPECTRE (2015)

While SPECTRE earns points for trying to recapture the glory of classic Bond, it ultimately feels like a heartless, paint-by-numbers exercise the pieces of which don't add up to anything. Craig is almost humorless here, playing 007 with a dour ruthlessness it's hard to empathize with. There's a telling moment when Bond discovers a videotape labeled 'Vesper Lynd – Interrogation.' This woman was the love of his life, someone he nearly gave up everything for, yet Bond simply tosses it away. The film's supporting cast members are good, but seldom feel integral to the story until the final act. The belle of the ball is Léa Seydoux, who doesn't get nearly enough screen time for you to buy that Bond could care for her. And the filmmakers' pointless effort to hide the fact that Christoph Waltz was playing the franchise's iconic supervillian, Ernst Blofeld, isn't helped by a ridiculously contrived plot as to the character's origins.

SPECTRE is an almost complete misfire from start to finish. But it starts in a promising way, with an opening set amid Mexico City's Day of the Dead celebration that aspires to give Welles' Touch of Evil a run for its money. Bond was sent there to kill an assassin by the former M (Judi Dench), who named the man in a final message delivered after her death. She's also asked Bond to attend the man's funeral in Rome, which eventually leads him back to Mr. White and his estranged daughter, Madeline Swann (Seydoux), both of whom are hiding in the Austrian Alps. From there, the trail of clues takes 007 and Swann to North Africa, where Blofeld has been waiting for them in his secret desert lair. Meanwhile, back in Her Majesty's Kingdom, the new M (Ralph Fiennes), Q, Moneypenny, and Tanner must contend with the obsolescence of MI6 at the hands of Max Denbigh (Andrew Scott, ex-Sherlock), who believes that electronic surveillance and drones can replace the 00 section. Eventually, the two plot threads converge… and logic goes right out the window.

After going all-digital with Skyfall, SPECTRE was shot mostly on 35 mm photochemical film again, though some scenes were still captured digitally in ARRIRAW (at 3.4 and 6.5K). It was finished as a native 4K Digital Intermediate at the 2.39 'scope' ratio. For its UHD release, the film has been graded for high dynamic range (both HDR10 and Dolby Vision are available). The film looks fantastic here on disc, though I would say that Skyfall has the slight edge on it, not for its digital capture but rather for Roger Deakins' lovely cinematography. Detail is crisp and clean, texturing is refined, shadows and highlights are appropriately enhanced, while the film's somewhat muted color palette is more nuanced for the wider gamut. As is the case with all four of these films, the Dolby Vision offers just a little more pop and dimensionality (especially on the native 4K titles). Primary audio this time is English 7.1 DTS-HD Master Audio, the same mix found on the previous Blu-ray. It delivers a pleasingly wide soundstage, with lively and atmospheric surrounds, excellent clarity, and firm bass. (But yes, we wish MGM had sprung for Atmos.) Additional audio options include English 5.1 Descriptive Audio, Spanish, Czech, Hungarian and Polish 5.1 Dolby Digital, and French, Castilian, German, and Italian 5.1 DTS, with subtitles available in English for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing, Spanish, French, Castilian, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, German, Italian, Norwegian, Swedish, Traditional and Simplified Chinese, Czech, Hungarian, Korean, Polish, and Portuguese.

Unfortunately, there are no extras on the UHD disc, but you do get the previous Blu-ray edition, which offers the following (all in HD):

• SPECTRE: Bond's Biggest Opening Sequence (20:12)
• Director – Sam Mendes (1:29)
• Supercars (1:41)
• Introducing Léa Seydoux and Monica Bellucci (1:42)
• Action (1:37)
• Music (1:50)
• Guinness World Record (1:18)
• Gallery (20 images)
• Teaser Trailer (1:32)
• Theatrical Trailer 1 (2:31)
• Theatrical Trailer 2 (1:10)

Unfortunately, this content is EPK filler material at its worst, glossy from start to finish and completely lacking in depth, interest, or heart (not unlike like the film itself). There's not even an audio commentary, which might at least have shed a bit of light on this train wreck. Again, you do at least get Digital copy codes on paper inserts in the packaging.

Film Rating: C
Disc Ratings (Video/Audio/Extras): A/A/D

So those are the films.

Ultimately, (and once you get past any shock you might be experiencing upon learning that I like Quantum of Solace slightly more than Skyfall), I would imagine that most Bond fans will find MGM's 007: The Daniel Craig Collection worth its current $40 sale price on Amazon. However, I strongly suspect that this is MGM's litmus test for releasing the rest of the Bond films on physical 4K UHD. So while I know many of you would prefer to wait for an eventual Complete Bond 4K set, if do wish to see the Connery, Moore, Dalton, and Brosnan films on Ultra HD one day, it's probably a good idea to send the studio that message by jumping on this initial release now.

- Bill Hunt

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Casino Royale (4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray)

• Casino Royale (4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray)

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James Bond goes on his first ever mission as a 00. Le Chiffre is a banker to the world's terrorists. He is participating in a poker game at Montenegro, where he must win back his money, in order to stay safe among the terrorist market. The boss of MI6, known simply as M sends Bond, along with Vesper Lynd to attend this game and prevent Le Chiffre from winning. Bond, using help from Felix Leiter, Mathis and having Vesper pose as his wife, enters the most important poker game in his already dangerous career. But if Bond defeats Le Chiffre, will he and Vesper Lynd remain safe?

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Casino Royale

The movie begins in the city of Prague, Czech Republic, where James Bond has tracked down an MI6 section chief, Dryden, who was selling information to enemies for profit. They chat about what it takes to be a Double O agent (one of the requirements is making two kills) and Bond casually tells Dryden that his espionage contact, Fisher died, and 'Not well.' Intercut with the conversation are black and white scenes of Bond and Dryden's contact fighting in a men's room. 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. 'Shame. We barely got to know each other.' He pulls the trigger, but James has removed the ammunition from the weapon. 'I know where you keep your gun. I suppose that's something.' Dryden continues to taunt Bond, asking him if he felt any remorse or guilt over killing Fisher. 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.' (Though not said explicitly, Bond found the killing of Dryden, his second such kill, 'considerably' easier than the first.) 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 as Bond spins around and shoots the man. Blood runs down the frame, prompting the opening titles.
The scene shifts to Uganda where a terrorist group is meeting with 'Le Chiffre', a private banker to terrorist groups around the world. The broker for the deal is a Mr. White, who invests their money and manipulates stocks so they get a 100% return on the investment. The terrorists, lead by a man named Obanno, agree to allow the money to be taken for Le Chiffre's nefarious purposes.
In Madagascar, Bond, on his first mission as a '00', is working with another agent, Carter, monitoring a terrorist, Mollaka, who is gambling on a match between a cobra and a mongoose. Bond's inexperienced partner agent is exposed after Mollaka gets a cell call and the terrorist bolts from the scene. Bond chases the man, who is an experienced 'free runner' (parkour) who leads Bond through a construction site, onto several sky 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 thru the halls of the embassy and finally finds himself surrounded by armed guards. The ambassador appears and orders Bond to let Mollaka go. Bond shoots the terrorist 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.' Bond keeps the phone.
Back at MI6, M is furious that 007'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's 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.' M tells him that 'arrogance and self-awareness seldom go hand-in-hand' and she wanted him to take his ego out of the equation when on a mission. She also tells him to go on a brief vacation until she can decide how best to deal with him. Bond had discovered that the call to Mollaka originated in the Bahamas and so Bond goes there to investigate who made the call and why. He ends up finding a middle man, Dmitrios, 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 1964 Aston Martin.
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 Dmitrios, after seeing him put a bag away for someone to pick up later. Bond kills Dmitrios 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 secured 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 and slips out onto the tarmac. Carlos attaches an explosive charge 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. However, Bond had discovered Carlos' small explosive device & attached it to Carlos' belt during the melee, and Carlos ends up killing himself.
Returning to Nassau, Bond discovers that Solange had been murdered. 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. Thanks to Bond, Le Chiffre loses over $101 million dollars. Now a marked man, Le Chiffre must find another way to earn the money back so his investors will not kill him. He sets up a high stakes poker match in Montenegro for 10 players with entry fees at $10 million each plus a $5 million buy-back should they lose all their money. M informs Bond of the poker game and agrees to let Bond continue the mission since he's the best poker player in the service. M also implants a homing device on 007 so she can track him anywhere.
The British Government will be putting up the money and we are introduced to Vesper Lynd who is the government agent who is going 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. Upon arriving they pose as a married couple and meet Rene Mathis, their contact in Montenegro. 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 007 knows the password. On the first hand, 007 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 asthma 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. Out in the hallway, Bond hears Valenka screaming. He quickly grabs Vesper and they kiss in the stairway entrance to cover themselves. Obanno's henchman notices Bond's earpiece and attacks them both. The fight takes them into the stairwell, where the henchman gets thrown off the stairwell to his death, and James and Obanno have a knock-down drag-out fight all the way down the stairwell. Finally landing on the bottom, Bond gets Obanno into a choke hold. Obanno tries to reach for Bond's gun, but Vesper smashes it out of his hands. Bond kills Obanno and orders Vesper to contact Mathis, who sets up a man to take the fall for the dead bodies by placing them in the man's car trunk. Bond finishes the poker session, but he returns to the room to find Vesper shaking uncontrollably in the shower from the fight. He holds on to her and comforts her.
The next day, during the continuing poker game, Bond loses all his money to Le Chiffre after misreading a bluff and admits to Vesper that he made a mistake. Vesper won't give him the buy back money saying he's going to lose it. Furious, 007 goes after Le Chiffre but is stopped by one of the other poker players, Felix Leiter, an agent sent by the CIA to the poker match to catch Le Chiffre. Leiter tells 007 that he's doing poorly himself in the game and that he'll back Bond to re-enter the game; Leiter believes that Bond can beat Le Chiffre. In return, Bond will give Le Chiffre to the CIA. Bond slowly builds his bank again and once again becomes a threat to Le Chiffre. Le Chiffre has Valenka poison Bond's martini with digitalis, causing Bond to suffer severe tachycardia. Bond goes to his car distressed and, communicating with medical specialists at MI6 headquarters, is about to use the defibrillator when he sees the the connection isn't plugged in and passes out. Vesper arrives, fixes the defibrillator kit and shocks him back to life. Bond, shaken, returns to the game. The final hand of the game is down to four players, including Bond and Le Chiffre, who go 'all in', betting their remaining money, driving the 'pot' well over $120 million. One man has a flush, while another has a full house. Le Chiffre has a higher full house and is about to take the entire pot. Bond reveals he has a straight flush and wins the game.
Bond has dinner with Vesper, who receives a call from Mathis stating that Le Chiffre has been apprehended by the CIA. Vesper leaves the dining room; seconds later, Bond realizes she's in danger. Vesper is kidnapped by Le Chiffre. Bond races after them in his Aston Martin, but has to swerve violently when he sees Vesper lying bound in the road. The car rolls several times, destroying it and injuring Bond, rendering him unconscious. Le Chiffre and his cronies take him, remove his homing implant. As Bond fades from consciousness, Le Chiffre tells him that Mathis was allied with his enemy. Bond and Vesper are taken to a nearby tramp steamer and separated. Bond is stripped and bound to a chair with the seat removed, leaving his testicles exposed. Le Chiffre uses a large knotted rope, striking Bond's scrotum, demanding the password for the account the winnings have been secured in. Bond refuses, despite Le Chiffre's threats to kill him and Vesper. Through the pain inflicted on him, Bond tells Le Chiffre that his investors, who are already hunting him, will find him and kill him. Le Chiffre finally draws a knife and is about to castrate Bond when gunshots are heard outside. The door opens and Mr. White, the broker from the first scene with Obanno, walks in, pointing a pistol directly at Le Chiffre. Le Chiffre, suddenly frightened, pleads with him, saying he'll secure the money, to which White replies, 'Money isn't as important to our organization as knowing who to trust.' White shoots Le Chiffre in the forehead, killing him.
Bond wakes up in a hospital bed during a haze while he recovers. He talks to Mathis, whom he believes was responsible for his and Vesper's capture by Le Chiffre. MI6 agents appear, taze Mathis and drag him away.
Vesper visits Bond and they confess their love for each other. The two make love. The Swiss banker in charge of the winnings account visits and Bond gives Vesper the password to key in; the password is her own first name. Bond resigns from the service to go away with Vesper, and they sail to Venice, Italy where Vesper says she'll get the money and Bond will get the supplies for the trip. When M phones 007 about his resignation, she says that they'll discuss that later but they need to talk about the money being returned to the British government first, which tips off 007 that Vesper was using him all along. 007 follows Vesper to a secret meeting where she turns the money over, in cash, to a man named Gettler. Gettler and a few of his men retreat to a building being renovated and a gunfight ensues. Bond shoots and ruptures the flotation bags that hold the building above water-level and fights with them all, killing them. He tries to save Vesper, locked in an old elevator, but is unable to after she commits suicide by drowning herself. Bond recovers her body and takes her above water but is unable to revive her. Mr. White, who'd been watching the scene, is seen leaving with the suitcase full of money.
Sitting on the sailboat he and Vesper had been vacationing on, Bond talks to M, who informs him that Vesper had a boyfriend who was being held by Le Chiffre's organization. She had intended to pay off Le Chiffre's associates with the money to secure her boyfriend's release. M believes that there are no further leads, that the 'trail has gone cold.' Bond examines Vesper's cell phone and finds the phone number of Mr. White, which he theorized she left for him purposely. At Lake Como in Northern Italy, White arrives at a palatial estate. After he exits his car, he receives a phone call from someone telling him they 'need to talk.' Asking who the caller is, White is suddenly shot in the leg by a sniper. He falls to the ground and crawls toward the house. As he tries to climb the stairs and the familiar Bond theme music begins to play, Bond appears carrying a cell phone and an HK rifle. As White looks up defiantly, Bond says 'The name's Bond. James Bond.' The closing titles roll immediately.

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