Bond at the beginning and the end - never in his prime Coming from this Bond, you knew that was a lie. 'I don't stop to think about it,' he said in 2015's Spectre. Like the Bond of Ian Fleming's novels - and unlike the Bond of the initial four decades of movies derived from them - this professional killer was as fallible as he was arrogant unlucky in love, frequently injured, conscious of the likelihood he would be killed on the job, given to morbid reflection. The Craig-model Bond we met in the 2006 reboot Casino Royale was a revelation.
