I was pleasantly reminded about how much I love Welles's mellifluous enunciation. There's certainly a lot of talent here, as it would be hard to argue that David Niven, Peter Sellers, and Orson Welles couldn't act or that John Huston couldn't direct. This was clearly a very big budget movie for the era, shot and edited fairly well.
On the plus side, I enjoyed the production design a lot. It's a movie that gets some points just for being so weird. The original 'Casino Royale' is by no means essential, but it wasn't a total waste of time. After all these years I've finally seen every James Bond film.
