Casino Royale departs from the tradition of earlier Bond films by treading close to the tone of the original book.
Nonetheless, it opens with a heart-pounding chase scene that is not in the book but is entirely in the tradition of the Bond movies. I hadn’t done much research going into the film, so I didn’t already know who played Mollaka, but within seconds of the chase starting, I knew that under the burn makeup, that man was Sébastien Foucan — except that I didn’t really know Sébastien Foucan’s name; I knew him as that guy.
By the way, James Bond drinks any number of interesting drinks in the books — he doesn’t stick to a martini, shaken not stirred — and the movie even includes his signature drink from the novel, the Vesper, served in a deep champagne goblet:
“Three measures of Gordon’s, one of vodka, half a measure of Kina Lillet. Shake it very well until it’s ice-cold, then add a large thin slice of lemon peel. Got it?”