25 Greatest Film Deaths This Century

Bond, James Bond has graced our screens for over six decades, with six actors taking on the role of the international superspy, and while each star’s portrayal has its own unique traits and quirks, the one thing uniting all of them was a shiny immortality. 007 moved from era to era, never growing old and never biting the dust. Until Daniel Craig came along.

The Craig films ditched the romance and charm the Bond series was known for, and opted for high-octane, Bourne-style action and a hard-worn lush of a leading man. And this all came to a head in Cary Joji Fukunaga’s No Time to Die, the closing chapter of the five Craig pictures.

Bond is dragged out of retirement to take on Safin (Rami Malek), the latest in a long line of facially scarred evil maniacs, and after hot pursuits, near-misses, and dances with death, the pair wind up facing off on the latter’s island base. But, at the end of the third act, Bond finds himself infected with nanobots programmed to target his daughter and her mother Madeleine (Lea Seydoux), and, with missiles inbound to destroy the island, he must make his most important decision. Rather than risk their lives, he stays to face his fate, telling Madeleine over the radio that she has "all the time in the world."

Stoic? Check. Romantic? Check. Epic? Absolutely. Exactly the way the man who could never die should go out.