![]() Castĭaniel Craig, Christoph Waltz, Léa Seydoux, Ralph Fiennes, Monica Bellucci, Ben Whishaw, Naomie Harris, Dave Bautista, Andrew Scott, Rory Kinnear, Jesper Christensen ProducersĢ6 October 2015, The Royal Albert Hall, London Locations Bond joins Swann, leaving his old life behind. Bond has the opportunity to kill Blofeld but decides to let him live. In London Bond debriefs M, is captured by Blofeld, then rescues Swann. ![]() After Oberhauser tortures Bond and reveals himself to be Ernst Stavro Blofeld, Bond and Swann escape and destroy the base. At a high-tech facility in the desert Bond and Swann meet Oberhauser, He amasses information to manipulate events and is about to gain control of a global surveillance network. Swann leads Bond to Tangier and from there they journey by train to a desert location, Swann makes Bond question the life he has chosen for himself. She reveals the secret organisation is SPECTRE. The daughter, Dr Madeleine Swann, is reluctant to help, but after Bond rescues her from Hinx she agrees. In Austria, Bond meets his old nemesis Mr White and makes a promise to keep Mr White’s daughter safe in exchange for leading him to Oberhauser. The terrifying Hinx pursues Bond in a car chase. ![]() Bond travels to Rome and infiltrates a secret meeting, but their leader Franz Oberhauser, reveals Bond’s presence. Back in London, Bond is grounded by M but confides in Moneypenny that he was acting on orders from the previous M before she died. At 15 years, Craig holds the record for longest uninterrupted on-screen ownership of Bond, but Connery spread his appearances as Bond across 21 years.On a rogue mission in Mexico City Bond kills an assassin. Six years passed until No Time To Die, the longest wait between Bond movies. Skyfall was likewise Certified Fresh, but there was not so much critical love for in-betweener Quantum of Solace and the most-recent Spectre of 2015. ![]() Casino Royale was a return to form, Daniel Craig’s sneer and occasional smile calibrated to the modern cynical viewer. GoldenEye was intoxicating Certified Fresh fun, while the three that followed are all Rotten.Īfter Austin Powers took the piss out of the franchise for a decade, Eon turned to resurrecting James Bond as the brooding, brutish hulk we have today. Pierce Brosnan brought back the sophisticated sex appeal, as the best Bond in the not-so-greatest movies. It’s something Daniel Craig would pick up on in the future, but with a bigger budget and fewer a-ha theme songs. Dalton’s Bond: Cool and menacing, and his films The Living Daylights and License to Kill are praised by modern fans for their dark, grittier take on the spy game. In 1981, Connery came back for non-Eon Bond Never Say Never Again, just as HQ was hiring Timothy Dalton for the job. Not bad, and he even traveled into space. Three of his movies are Rotten, three are Fresh, and one is Certified Fresh. Then it became time to move over for Roger Moore, who offered a lightly winking and intelligent Bond for those burned-out ’70s times. A mild administration for George, yes, with only 1969’s On Her Majesty’s Secret Service released, though Certified Fresh. The non-comic caper is the worst-reviewed James Bond movie, and was produced outside of franchise gatekeepers Eon.Īs celebrated was Connery’s reign was – the late actor’s films occupy three of the top five slots on this list – the sun sets on every empire, and thus was ushered in the age of the Lazenby. Case in point: 1967’s Casino Royale had no less than six James Bonds within its spooferifous walls, none holding a candle to the Con’. No remains among the best-reviewed of 007’s movies, bringing forth that first legendary era of Sean Connery suited up as the debonair rogue that women crave and men aspire to be in vain. The Ian Fleming adaptations started with a bang: Dr. Since 1962, James Bond has been the spy whose reputation precedes him: As international man of mystery, as guru of gadgets and espionage thrills, and as the agent who never encountered a boundary – country, or personal space – he couldn’t sneak across. (Photo by United Artists/courtesy Everett Collection) All 27 James Bond Movies Ranked by Tomatometer
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