This movie fulfills his own underlying issue, in a different way.

Rating: 3/10 (30 August 2013)

What that is? It's the claim that agents and spies are no longer needed, and if you look at this version of Bond, you could honestly say that. Also, the super enemies can be trashed because this Bond has none.
// spoiler // This enemy gets himself caught to be able to shoot M personally, planning everything in advance, even having planted a bomb in the subway as if he could have known what would happen there, but what's happening then? You wouldn't believe it, an ordinary shooting in a rehearsal room, where of course he kills all guards who are protected by protection vests with one shot and - belonging to the underlying theme: old style agents are still needed! - the somewhat older once agent Mallory can add his arguments that the MI6 is still needed by helping to defeat the bad ass. Also, there's no Bond girl. Bond has one assistant but the woman deemed to be the Bond girl dies after roughly ten minutes screen time. So no Bond style here, too. // end spoiler //
There are more points to mention, but this is most important; Bond is no spy anymore, he's just an "Apparatschik". Don't misread me, I think Craig is a very good Bond very close to the Bond Fleming created, tougher and more cynically, but the stories are simply no Bond stories. Even the first Bond with Craig wasn't really, and it was a remake (sort of) an older story. After that, essentially two non-Bond stories have been made to Bond movies which they are not. The new action style is okay, less gimmicks than in the past, very much okay, but the stories are not, the style is not, and you really don't want to see a Bond running around with an earplug all the time to play M's executing agent on demand.
The final nail to the coffin are the references to the original at the end, that left me speechless. First you ruin the franchise, then you claim for yourself to represent it; the other way round compared to Star Trek, but not an inch better.