I agree - Bond is 'weak' these days.

As the guys says, this isn't a reflection on Daniel Craig; I think he's done a good job with what he's given.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/celebritynews/11833706/Modern-James-Bond-films-too-soft-says-Flemings-successor.html

But these extended origin plots; they are a waste of time.

007 isn't what it was supposed to be (although really none of the films really ever were, since they were set starting in the relatively modern era when they were filmed and not in the 1940's and 1950's as when the books were set)