[SoCal Pubbie]

I agree with nkycincinnatikid. While Craig did well in the role, there was precious little of the British sophistication in his performance that Fleming wrote into the character. He seemed more ex-SAS than ex-Royal navy, IMHO.

[pcottraux]

Correct me if I’m wrong, but I believe Fleming’s original creation was a brutal, gritty, hardened killer. An alcoholic womanizer addicted to pain killers and a chain smoker and kind of an unstable manic depressive. Most of the suaveness came from the transition to the movies. And I actually thought there was a LOT of class and sophistication to the Craig-Bond...it was just a darker and more mysterious kind. I thought he had a real Steve McQueen quiet-loner-tough-guy kind of screen presence.