The lowest-ranked Sean Connery film in this rundown is the Scotsman's sixth Bond project -- and the last one that the iconic star made before taking a year hiatus. According to critics, Diamonds Are Forever was evidence of a franchise in need of new blood.
The New Yorker's Pauline Kael called the film an "unimaginative Bond picture that is often noisy when it means to be exciting. Kidd and Mr. Wint, respectively. This Daniel Craig adventure is "filled with big sets, big stunts, and what ought to be big moments," Matt Zoller Seitz noted for RogerEbert. Spectre co-stars Christoph Waltz in a new take on the old reliable Bond villain Blofeld, with Ralph Fiennes taking over as M, and like Skyfall, delves deeper into Bond's origin story.
This Timothy Dalton entry, the first of his two turns as James Bond, wins points from critics for not being a Roger Moore entry. This film, which marks George Lazenby's lone outing as James Bond , is a pretty good entry, per critics. While the New Yorker's Pauline Kael found its star "quite a dull fellow," she called the movie "exciting. This entry marks Sean Connery's fifth outing as James Bond.
The film is nonetheless influential: Its cat-petting iteration of Blofeld played by Donald Pleasence , complete with villain's hideaway in a volcano, inspired the Austin Powers franchise's Dr. According to critics, this film is Roger Moore's second-best James Bond movie.
According to critics, this film is a lesser Sean Connery entry, but a worthy entry overall. Pent-up demand may have helped: The film was the first James Bond movie since Timothy Dalton's License to Kill, released six years prior. Released in , two years after Star Wars changed just about everything in Hollywood, the fourth Roger Moore James Bond film sees sent to outer space.
Critics non-ironically cheered. The top-grossing Sean Connery Bond movie, this film is also one of the better-reviewed Bond movies. Never Say Never Again marked Connery's final appearance and, from a critical standpoint, seems to have benefited from having been released during the reviled tail end of the Roger Moore era.
Despite the presence of Connery, who first embodied Bond on the big screen, this movie wasn't from Eon Productions, making it the second of the two non-canonical films in our list. The final film to star Daniel Craig as has drawn largely positive reviews, following an extended wait for its release brought about by production delays and the coronavirus pandemic.
With a running time of 2 hours, 43 minutes, No Time to Die is the longest Bond movie of them all. The first James Bond feature film , released in though it didn't arrive in the United States until , is one of the best James Bond movies, per critics.
No , featuring Ursula Andress as original Bond girl Honey Ryder yes, really , was one of 's Top 10 box-office hits. The opening minutes of the film reveal how Bond earned his double-0 rating, and for fans of the Ian Fleming novels, it manages to both stay true to the book and adapt that story for audiences a half-century later. The film won the series' first two Oscars since 's Goldfinger; it claimed statuettes for sound editing and for Adele's title song.
The second James Bond movie is, per the critical consensus, the second-best James Bond movie ever. The New Yorker's fabled Pauline Kael praised the release : "Exciting, handsomely staged, and campy. No, and firmly established as a franchise to watch. It had all the elements we've come to expect: the megalomaniac villain with an outrageous and murderous scheme, the henchman with a quirky method for killing Oddjob and his hat , big set pieces with extravagant action, Bond in a dinner jacket.
In the official Bond canon -- the films made by Eon Productions -- there are 25 films, including the upcoming No Time to Die. Because of licensing issues, there were two other, non-canonical movies: the version of Casino Royale, and Sean Connery's final outing, 's Never Say Never Again. Be respectful, keep it civil and stay on topic. It was pushed back once again to September 30, , at the start of the year after it became clear that cinemas were going to remain shut until May.
The franchise began back in , where Sean Connery made his debut as the character in Dr. There have been two unofficial James Bond movies produced independently outside of Eon productions, the spoof Casino Royale starring David Niven and Never Say Never Again in , a remake of Thunderball which featured the return of Connery in the role. Since Dr. By the time Fleming died in aged 56, he had written 14 James Bond books and seven short stories.
With Daniel Craig's tenure as Ian Fleming's James Bond coming to an end with No Time To Die, rumours and speculation have already begun surrounding who will be the next actor to step into the tuxedo. Instead, the producers changed gears on the heels of the massive success of Star Wars in and put super-spy James Bond an astronaut in space. It did mark the return of Richard Kiel as Jaws though, and Moonraker also features the most ridiculous Bond Girl name of the entire series — Dr.
Holly Goodhead, played by Lois Chiles. James Bond entered his third decade on the screen with For Your Eyes Only , and while it still was a trademark Roger Moore-era movie, with humor and over-the-top moments, it was a return to good ideas and good movie-making after the disaster that was Moonraker.
Shortly after that, James finds himself on a helicopter be remotely controlled by none other than his old nemesis, Ernst Blofeld, who is in a wheelchair and whom Bond eventually deposits down a smokestack as the opening credits role. Yep, this one is usually most famous for its name.
Somehow, it got past the censors and ended up with a PG rating. Octopussy won the box office race and Never Say Never Again was sort of ignored by most Bond fans other than as a curiosity.
Octopussy is also the only Bond movie filmed in India, which makes it worth the watch alone. It saw James Bond being tasked with following a general who is stealing treasures from the Soviet Union, but it eventually turns into a race to stop the detonation of a nuclear weapon. Moore is still the highest tally among all the actors that have played James Bond. His goal is to cause an earthquake that wipes northern California off the map while he rides around on a blimp with his name on it.
The plot and the movie are the epitome of over-the-top camp that defined the Roger Moore era. Eventually though, Brosnan would be locked into his contract for the show and the producers went with Timothy Dalton as the star of The Living Daylights.
The way Dalton played James Bond was a big departure from Moore. It should also be noted that The Living Daylights marked the return of Bond's classic car, the Aston Martin, and would also be the last movie to use the title from an Ian Fleming story until 's Casino Royale. The second and final James Bond movie for Timothy Dalton is one of the most under-appreciated films of the series, Licence to Kill yes, we're going with the British spelling here.
One very notable thing about the cast, the henchman Dario is played by a very young Benicio del Toro in one of his very first roles. Felix Leiter also came back for another round of action, and he wouldn't be seen on the big screen again until Casino Royale. Due to financial and legal wrangling , Licence To Kill would be the last James Bond movie for six years, and in the intervening time, a lot of major changes happened Arguably the biggest was the producers now including Barbara Broccoli, taking over for her father landing the guy they wanted back in the '80s, Pierce Brosnan, to play the British secret agent.
His first movie, GoldenEye , was a huge hit as the public was excited about the first Bond movie in years AND that Bronsnan finally had the role many thought he should have had years before. Another major change was the role of M. For years, the role was played by Bernard Lee, then in the '80s, by Robert Brown. For GoldenEye , the producers would cast a woman in the role, Dame Judi Dench, who would go on to make the role all her own. Tomorrow Never Dies is most notable for its cast. Eagle-eyes viewers can also pick up two future Downton Abbey collaborators, Hugh Bonneville and Julian Fellowes, in small roles as well as a young Gerald Butler in a small role as a British sailor.
So, you know, an average weekday for him. One of the most universally panned James Bond movie, The World Is Not Enough suffers from a weak plot the story sees James Bond protecting the daughter of a recently-assassinated billionaire and a weak acting performance from Bond Girl Denise Richards, despite her excellently silly Bond Girl name, Dr.
Christmas Jones. Llewelyn was killed in a traffic accident shortly after the movie was released. No when she walks out of the ocean in a bikini. That scene served as a tribute to the entire series, which was celebrating its 40th anniversary.
It also marked the first time the series starred John Cleese as Q, the first time the role was played by someone other than Desmond Llewelyn. Madonna also plays a small role in the film, in addition to providing the theme song. The reboot, by almost any measure, was a huge success as critics and fans praised Craig for the gritty realism with which he played the role.
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