[QUOTE=Bryan Ekers]
I didn’t like Casino Royale for (among other reasons) its claim to show Bond at the beginning of his career, while Craig had a lot of the “I’m too cool for you” aspects of Roger Moore, coupled with M’s Yosemite Sam-ish frustration at him. That’s the kind of cockiness one can assume after becoming established, not before.
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As mentioned before I would have thought cockiness and supreme confidence would be a pre-requisite for secret agent/trained killer. It wouldn’t be something you’d develop as you got better at it because if you weren’t the best (and knew it) to start with you’d probably be dead.