Daniel Craig is, obviously, best known for playing England's best-loved alcoholic, womanising Cold War throwback James Bond. However, as much as that's the role which defines him in in the public imagination, there's a great deal more to him than just shooting people and then dropping some really quite insensitive witticisms afterwards. Those us us who are better acquainted with Craig's previous work know that he's as skilled in playing the brooding lead in indie romances as he is at punching dudes to death with his big meaty fists. We also know that he's got really very extensive experience of being in the most appalling rubbish in a frankly staggering array of genres and styles. Unsolicited remakes of beloved sci-fi films, lumpy adaptations of video games, hammy teen-orientated rehashes of Mark Twain novels: he's done 'em all. Still, the signs were always there that his Bond could go either way: despite having generally excellent taste in directors and scripts, he has occasionally wandered into the thicket of shoddiness before hacking his way out with the machete of his natural charisma. Ahead of Spectre's much-anticipated release on Monday, here's five awesome performances from Daniel Craig's career and five he would rather we forgot swiftly...
