This has been commented on a few times throughout his films but James Bond is indeed a relic. He makes some daft comment about espionage needing a man with a gun in Skyfall but I'm not so sure. Most of the spying done nowadays is through satellites and drones. This can gather more information than Bond could ever hope to and often without destroying or having sex with a single thing. His is a classic case of the 'old ways are best' shtick that Die Hard is also limping along with, making him a truly outdated heroic figure. With all his flaws and brooding in recent years attempting to bring him into the modern world it's still blatantly clear that most of the work he does could be done without any feet actually touching the ground. I don't know what the next film will bring but now the idea of 'super villains' in the Bond-verse has been turned more gritty to move with the times, shouldn't the methods used to combat them? Smart criminals in these days wouldn't waste their time focusing their energies on one man; they'd look at the big picture in which 007 wouldn't even feature. While it's cool to see someone kick all kinds of behind on screen, the reality is that he's a drunken, clumsy dinosaur.
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