Not your traditional 007 movie. Feels as if the writers have been forced to make Bond fit today's social norms. Bond is supposed to be invincible secret agent as well as a hard drinking womaniser, why would he settle down?? Maliks performance was probably the only saving grace.
*SPOILER ALERT*
BOND DOESN'T DIE IN BOND MOVIES.... PERIOD.
It has been this way since 1962 don't mess with the formula.