What is Casino Royale's IQ Score?

Casino Royale has an IQ Score of 122/200 on TV Intelligentsia's Intelligence Quotient framework, placing it in the Competent tier. The score breaks down to 35/50 Cognitive Stimulation, 18/50 Educational Value, and 41/50 Craft & Quality.

Is Casino Royale educational?

Casino Royale is low on educational value, 18/50 on TVI's rubric. Watch for entertainment, not for learning.

How does TV Intelligentsia calculate IQ Score?

TV Intelligentsia's current published formula is round((Cognitive Stimulation × 0.4 + Educational Value × 0.35 + Craft & Quality × 0.25) × 4), scoring titles from 0 to 200 across five tiers. TVI publishes a three-dimension breakdown only when those values reproduce the displayed composite. The framework is published at tvintelligentsia.com/methodology/.

Casino Royale IQ Score 122/200

Casino Royale has an IQ Score of 122/200 on TV Intelligentsia's Intelligence Quotient rubric, placing it in the Competent tier.

By Jordan Robinson, MD, MPH·Updated 2026-08-02·Methodology

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122/ 200

Competent

Engages without demanding much, watchable and reasonably crafted

Score Breakdown

Cognitive Stimulation/50

Educational Value/50

Craft & Quality/50

IQ = round((Cognitive × 0.4 + Educational × 0.35 + Craft × 0.25) × 4) · How we score →

What these dimensions mean

Cognitive Stimulation: how much the title demands of your mind, its structural complexity, ideas, and sustained intellectual engagement.
Educational Value: what you take away, across academic content, emotional intelligence, critical thinking, life skills, and knowledge transfer.
Craft & Quality: production excellence in service of the work, its direction, writing, performance, and aesthetic intent.

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Why you should trust this score

Scored under Jordan Robinson, MD, MPH

Physician and founding editor. Maintains the adult catalog against the published rubric and reviews the rubric application.

Methodology

Published rubric, v1.3.1

Formula

round((C × 0.40 + E × 0.35 + Q × 0.25) × 4)

Database scale

2,597 titles, version-controlled

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The TVI Take

Martin Campbell's 2006 reboot strips the Bond franchise to its grounded core, with Daniel Craig playing 007 as a blunt instrument who learns to bleed. The parkour opening chase, staged with Sebastien Foucan, resets the physical register, while the Montenegro poker centerpiece and Eva Green's Vesper Lynd give the espionage genuine stakes and a betrayal that actually wounds.

Superb craft that stays inside its genre lane.

People & Production Martin Campbell · Sony Pictures · United Kingdom 37 connections