Now that Casino Royale has been out for a few months, the world has had time to downsize its initial opinion of the film from “Wow, Casino Royale is the best Bond film ever” to “Yeah, I suppose it was sort of OK in places” – and now it’s China’s turn.

Even though no James Bond movies have ever been officially released in China, Casino Royale this week became the first 007 film to hit Chinese cinemas uncensored and is expected to become China’s highest-ever grossing foreign movie, despite the fact that Casino Royale has been widely available on pirated DVDs for months. It’s hard to know how the release of Casino Royale will affect China’s view of the west, apart from making the country think that all card games feature a jovial bearded man standing behind the action explaining exactly what’s happening for people too stupid to understand. And a man who can squirt blood out of his eyes.