Bond is the longest-running franchise ever and there's a reason for that: they are action movies but they are also touched by current events without being political or too serious.
“I love hard political debate and I love beating somebody on a political point but what I'm more frustrated by is the politics where you play the man not the politics.”
“It's also natural in that part of the world to blame what people view as the... as the most important authority in the region, and that currently is the United States of America.”