Time's up for James Bond: is 007 too toxic for the #MeToo era?

FULL STORY by Ben Child: The GUARDIAN…..

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The uncomfortable truth is that many of the secret agent’s grimmest moments are among the spy saga’s most memorable. For it is when 007 is at his cruellest, most savage and, in Craig’s case, his most damaged and unhinged, that the secret agent is most watchable. Moore was never better as Bond than as the lean, mean killing machine of Live and Let Die, rather than the cheesy eyebrow-raising lightweight of the later movies. By contrast, kind-eyed Timothy Dalton seemed to treat the “Bond girls” of his two 1980s appearances with more genuine consideration than any of his predecessors or successors, yet rarely tops the best Bond lists. George Lazenby, the only 007 to get married and fall in love, is often at the bottom, though there are, admittedly, other reasons for that.