I love (LOVE) how Bond kept countering this guy's phenomenal agility with his wits (knocking the hydraulics out on the lift for example).

His first Aston Martin
His first shaken not stirred
The brief beach scene from Dr. No

Bond and Obanno finally tumble over the rail and they have battled all the way to the ground floor.

The turncoat agent that Bond executes at the beginning should have noticed that there was no clip in the gun. Anyone who's even casually handled a firearm knows that an empty gun is signicantly lighter. If he'd popped the clip and it was a dummy filled with cement or something I would have felt better. In fact I'll assume Bond did put a dummy clip in, but they felt the audience was slick enough to figure that out. There. I feel better already.

EVERYONE does that, it's kinda annoying. I always notice it in US Marshalls, but they're not alone.

My biggest problem was with the whole idea of the poker game. Le Chiffre lost a lot of money because of the foiled terrorism in Miami, so wouldn't that be a good thing, something that the spy agencies would want to take advantage of? Why would they send Bond (and Felix) to potentially fund his operations? I know they made a big point of it on the train by explaining that Bond could not lose, but why were they sending him in the first place? What would be the gain, other than just taking a little more money from Le Chiffre? The money he won was only partially Le Chiffre's, the rest was from the rest of the players. And on the topic of poker, they did such a good job of setting up Bond as a guy who knows how to read people, and him explaining that you don't play the cards, you play the man. But in the end, the poker game essentially came down to who had the most amazing cards. There was never a time where Bond bluffed Le Chiffre or vice-versa; they just played poker the way most people think of it, by betting on the cards in your hand.

I will fully admit to being a complete idiot if someone can explain this next part. Who the hell was Mr. White and why did he show up again at the end? He was set up at the beginning of the movie as the contact between the Ugandan rebel leader and Le Chiffre; essentially someone who could vouch for Le Chiffre and that was it. I never got the impression that he was up to anything else other than getting people together. Was he behind the whole thing or not? That whole part was really hazy to me.

I was mostly just upset with the slack writing overall; there were a lot of things that just weren't made clear to me. With the bad Bond films, at least you understood the mission and what the objectives were. With this, the poker seemed so arbitrary and useless. Usually when Bond goes head to head with the bad guy in a card game, there is a secondary goal to find out more about his operation, his capabilities, etc. This one just had them playing cards for the whole second act of the movie, just so the winnings could be stolen later.

I have more to complain about, but I fear I might incur enough wrath with what I've said already.

"He was once in love." Or, "He was married once."?

1) Who had sent the text at the end with White's phone number? I couldn't tell if it was Veysper or M. If it was Veysper I would have expected him to notice is before he went to the bank. However, it makes sense that it would be her based on M's comment to James after "It's done. The bitch is dead." line.

2) How did James firgure out the switch? I couldn't tell if it's because he was told the money never made it back or not. It seemed like once somebody mentioned Veysper meeting with Mathis he put something together, which I didn't understand.

He figured it out when M asked if the money was going to be transferred. It wouldn't take a genius to figure out that Vesper was the guilty one - she had keyed in the account number and the password when presented with the winnings during James' recovery. At that point, the money should've gone to the British government - since M was asking as to when the money would be deposited, it would be obvious that the only person guilty would be Vesper.

Plus, she was at the bank when he received the call, which is another big hint. He had said that he had enough money, but she insisted on going to the bank.

"He was married once...but it was a long time ago."