Keeping it modern, but taking the man with more lives than an over-subscribed cattery back to his beginnings, we follow the suave thug-in-a-suit as he earns his ‘00' licence to kill status. This Bond is one mean hard-arsed mother and it's nice to see him played by an actor who looks like he can genuinely run without a group of nervous paramedics circling just out of camera shot. I thoroughly enjoyed this movie, it's brooding, brutal, dark and replete with some great action sequences, but, as my esteemed colleague pointed out (and why I haven't really bothered to give you a plot outline), the story makes pitifully little sense, even by Bond film standards. May my blinkered ignorance continue to always allow me such simple pleasures.