The thing I love about ALL the pre-Craig movies is that every movie is essentially Bond’s 4th mission. He’s not a rookie, has no ‘origin’ story, and spends the prologue ‘finishing’ a mission, then going back to work. He is good at his job and you don’t need to know where he came from, who his family is or why they are gone.

The Craig era has been great Jason Bourne movies, but not eternal adventures.