10 Things Nobody Wants To Admit About Daniel Craig's Bond Movies

5. Giving Bond A Backstory Added Nothing To The Series

"I love how they gave Bond a bit of a backstory in Skyfall - that was great!" Was it, though? Did it actually add anything to the movie, other than the revelation itself? Arguably not: instead, the whole Skyfall thing felt like an attempt to explore a bit of Bond backstory without actually doing any of the exploring. Plus, wasn't the movie, really, about M? What's the point in a bit of last minute character development (if you can call it that)? And yet Skyfall has been praised by fans for the way in which it admirably deconstructed its infamous hero, allowing audiences in to see his childhood home, his parents' graves, and introducing them to an old family friend with a shotgun (played by Albert Finney). It's all well and good, but it amounts to nothing. In actuality, it only feels like a half-assed attempt to layer Bond for the sake of it. Spectre arguably does worse, linking Bond to the villainous Blofeld by way of a half-brother and "daddy issues." The link is tenuous and undeveloped. You have to wonder why the writers ever bothered: it's not good or interesting to just give 007 a bunch of random backstories - don't mistake laziness for progress.