Bond 24: 10 Skyfall Flaws That Spectre Should Improve Upon

7. Weak Female Characters

James Bond has never prized itself on presenting audiences with strong female characters, and Skyfall is no different. Women are naturally treated with an air of distain in the Bond universe and always have been, and though Skyfall looked as though it might be attempting to update things, it mostly fails. After all, its female characters spend most of their time either looking hot and being abused, or looking hot and messing things up. Ah, to be a Bond girl. Pure bliss. So you get Naomie Harris' Moneypenny in Skyfall, who is resigned to a life behind a desk at the end of the movie after she fails to get to grips with her job as a field agent. And then you have Berenice Marlohe's Severine, who serves as the movie's primary source of eye candy and is generally forgettable for all of the 20 minutes she's on-screen (although her character actually plays a part in what emerged as Skyfall's most unintentionally disturbing scene; more on that later). Sam Mendes has made the brilliant decision to cast the likes of Léa Seydoux - who you might know from the brilliant indie gem Blue Is The Warmest Colour - in Spectre, which gives the movie a real and genuine opportunity to conjure up one of the strongest female characters in the entire Bond canon. If anyone can imbue the franchise with a much needed and very contemporary Bond girl (with an attitude to boot), it's Seydoux. Please, Spectre: make her count.