Mathis does not die immediately and Double-0 Seven responds to his mortally wounded ally's pleas not to be left alone, cradling Mathis in his arms. However, one of the worst offences that the film commits is to unceremoniously kill Mathis off in a Bolivian alleyway when the police try to frame and kill James Bond for his murder. In Quantum of Solace, it is revealed that he was tortured before his innocence was proven he then retired and MI6 purchased a stunning house for him in Talamone, Tuscany, all of which sounds very trite given that the film starts immediately after Casino Royale ended. Introduced in Casino Royale, Giannini's Mathis looked set to become one of Bond's closest allies, recalling the genuine friendship between Double-0 Seven and the worldly Deuxième Bureau agent in Ian Fleming's novels (although Mathis is an MI6 operative in Daniel Craig's Bond films).įans of the literary Bond were therefore stunned when Mathis was detained in Casino Royale. A similar scene features in Quantum of Solace, but is largely overlooked because it wastes one of Bond's best modern onscreen allies: Giancarlo Giannini's René Mathis.
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