Sean Connery defined what Bond should be, and everyone who followed him has admitted that. That said, a part of what defines Bond for me is of course the books, and for a movie to work for me it has to follow the book reasonably well. The last movie to do that was Thunderball, until Casino Royale. Casino sticks fairly closely to the plot of the book, and it shows. The only thing I would have liked better would have been a period piece, set at the beginning of the Cold War. As it is, Casino Royale was the best Bond movie in a very long time.
The only thing I liked about Quantum Of Solace was the in-joke involving "agent Fields", and that just barely.
Roger Moore was to dapper and debonaire for me. James Bond is a well-dressed thug. He fits into society by pretending to be something he's not. Most of the actors who've played him didn't have that quality. Daniel Craig does. Of course the scripts didn't help. I think Timothy Dalton could have been great if not for being stuffed into awful movies.
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