In its goal to reboot Bond for the modern age, Casino Royale got the job done with the very first mission Craig's Bond ever embarked upon. The opening credits were created by Daniel Kleinman, who had done the opening credits for all the Pierce Brosnan Bond films. With decades of Bond's perpetually cool and charming image, Casino Royale's parkour chase re-invents Craig's Bond into one much more susceptible to human limitations, but still completely undaunted by them. It takes place on a train, in a dining car, at a table. The opening chase sequence of Casino Royale also goes a long way towards humanizing Craig's Bond right as viewers first meet him with the equal emphasis it places on his vulnerability and mortality (which also set up Craig's Bond fixing numerous 007 issues throughout the series). The best scene in the history of Daniel Craig ’s soon-to-be retired James Bond era has no action, no guns, no martinis shaken nor stirred. The parkour chase itself also greatly advances Bond's character development on the fly, showing his brutish athleticism when he bursts through a wall before using a hydraulic lift to swiftly descend to ground level after his enemy. Casino Royale immediately establishes Craig's Bond as a force to be reckoned with in his determined pursuit of his target. In establishing a bleaker tone for Craig's Bond films, Casino Royale was essentially a reboot meant to take Bond into grittier territory after 2002's CGI-heavy Die Another Day. Casino Royale premiered at the Odeon Leicester Square, the Odeon West End and the Empire simultaneously in London on 14 November 2006.
