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Originally Posted by Vegard Aune

Not for Craig's Bond, it was a send-off for...

Spoiler for MAJOR SPOILERS:

Judi Dench's M.

So I went to see this movie a few days ago... I loved it. It had enough classic Bond-elements to feel like a James Bond movie, yet it didn't stick so close to the formula that it just felt like them remaking Goldfinger for the 15th time either. I like how Daniel Craig's movies have given Bond a bit more depth and made him a little more than just a suave badass secret agent who gets laid a lot. That said though, I do have one pretty big nitpick about the movie...

Spoiler for This relates to the beginning of the film so it's not really a HUGE spoiler, but still...:

Okay, so Bond got shot in the chest. Then he fell off a moving train on top of a bridge and fell over a hundred feet. Then his unconscious body floated off a waterfall. How was he not dead after all that?! Any one of those things could easily have killed him, (heck, I dare say a fall like that would kill anyone) and while of course any viewer knows that he isn't actually dead, the movie never even tries to justify it. No "How did you survive that?!", nor even so much as a shot of him washing ashore and waking up or anything. They just show his very fatal-looking non-death, cut to the opening credits, skip ahead a few months, show what's going on at MI6 and then suddenly we cut to Bond in a bar somewhere, and it's played up so casually that it's like... then why did you even go all "OH NO BOND IS DEAD!!!" to begin with, if you're just going to casually go "Oh yeah, he's not actually dead. Oh don't act so surprised," ten minutes later?

In response to your second bit of spoiler I will answer simply by saying HE'S BOND...JAMES BOND!