Is James Bond looking knackered, or is it just me? At 54, I’m at an age where I’ve given up on a lot of things. I lost interest in Question Time when David Dimbleby quit, stopped paying much attention to technology after CDs/DVDs went out, and I’m pretty sure Daniel Craig was my last James Bond too. I liked Craig in the part – he was the first Bond to convince you he’d really been in the services – but there are only so many 007s in a lifetime you can take. The last offering seemed to kill off the spy at just the right moment – he’d dwindled from Connery alphadom to a lugubrious, lovelorn loser moaning about his age (something many of us get enough of at home).
The Daniel Craig films tried, fatally, to have it both ways
But the clamour for the next Bond film suggests that if I think Bond’s heyday is over, I’m in a minority.
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