Mr Bond should have died a long time ago

James Bond would have lasted just seven minutes into his last movie Skyfall before succumbing to fatal wounds from a uranium shot if the secret agent played by Daniel Craig was real.A group of medical experts watched the 23rd outing for Ian Fleming’s hero and concluded that Bond would have been unlikely to survive to the end of the two hour film, and would have died or been critically injured several times .

Within the first seven minutes, Bond is hit by a depleted uranium shell, an armour-piercing round normally used to destroy tanks that would almost certainly have killed the hero.

In a feature for Total Film, the medical experts examine several different action movies to see whether the man characters would have survived their ordeal.

Other movies to undergo the medical assessment were Die Hard featuring Bruce Willis. Unsurprisingly John McClane would not have survived.

According to the experts, Bond’s depleted uranium wound would have been fatal as it ‘‘would have turned his lungs inside out and killed him’’.

In the unlikely event the massive round did not cause catastrophic injuries, the radioactive nature of the ammunition ‘‘would greatly increase his cancer risk’’.

Not that growing old gracefully was ever likely for James Bond, who at one stage performs surgery on himself to remove a bullet, where he ‘‘risks blood loss, lack of consciousness, nerve and muscle damage’’.

He also faces a significant risk of infection.

Even jumping from the roof of a speeding train into a river presents its own risks, which probably should not be tried by ordinary members of the public as he would likely ‘‘sever his spinal cord or break his neck’’.

However, filming the movie can prove slightly dangerous as Daniel Craig has recently required knee surgery after hurting himself while performing a stunt in his final Bond movie Spectre.

Even Home Alone would have produced three fatalities. Marv and Harry would have likely died within hours of the movie’s end while Kevin would have been killed within the first third of the film after falling from some shelves.

However, Tom Hanks in Cast Away could have plausibly survived on a desert island for four years as long as he escaped relatively unscathed from the plane crash. Although according to the experts, 76 per cent of the time he would have died in the accident. — dailymail