Chuck Anstey
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When I was done watching this I was not satisfied. My main issue isn't the plots themselves so much as Daniel Craig was absolutely the wrong actor for them and this movie really made that clear. If they wanted to do this story arc then they should have gotten an actor who was around 27 to start. Craig's Bond is unsophisticated and always plans to brawl and shoot his way out of every situation but is too old for such techniques. Whether Craig looks this way now or they purposely made him up to look so gaunt, he looks like a shell of a man physically like he has some sort of physically degenerating illness. They also spent most of the movie constantly saying he is too old for the job. There is no recovering from everything shown and said in the movie. This story arc would have made a lot more sense to me if they had started with a Bond of 27 or so where he was always able to physically get himself out of every situation. However now that he is in his later 30's he is starting to slow down. At this point he has to learn that spying isn't just run and gun but stealth and brains and finally makes the transition to "Gentleman spy" that all the other Bonds were. Craig's Bond may wear a tux but it doesn't fit him. After Skyfall, any transition of Craig to Gentleman spy seems too little, too late and extremely false. He pushed himself too long running and gunning and is now washed up physically and emotionally. Nothing in Skyfall makes such a transition believable. It is a pure "Tada" moment at the end, which stinks because Craig would have made a great Gentleman spy that was a bit more physical than his predecessors from the start. I realize that Daniel Craig himself is still younger than Roger Moore when he made Live and Let Die (same age by next movie) but his Bond character is old, worn out, and no longer fit for duty. However I expect the next movie to be a complete reset and will just ignore these previous three movies.