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While there’s undoubtedly a lot of debate over which Bond film is best, there’s perhaps even more over which one is the worst. FromDr No, which should have been calledDr No Thanks, toA View to a Kill, which nobody would kill to see, there have been some distinctly less impressive entries to the Bond canon. Not so much James Bond, you could say, asLamesBond. Yes, that is pretty clever, cheers.
Yes, the stunts, locations and the very large number of talented people working behind the camera on Bond films means there’s perhaps never been atotalstinker, apart fromDie Another Day, but a lot have come at least into the ballpark of terrible. As you will be able to find out for yourself, if you decide to watch them onAmazon PrimeVideo, where they have all just pitched up.
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Sean Connery: Thunderball
Thunderball: you could not accuse its marketing of being too subtle(Image credit: Getty)
Thunderball: you could not accuse its marketing of being too subtle
Thunderball: you could not accuse its marketing of being too subtle
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Critics rank this film the 6th best Bond film ever. I’d rank it the 6th best Connery Bond film ever, which isn’t far off.
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However, you could sense Connery was losing interest in the series already, playing Bond as broader caricature than he had previously. The main villain is pretty boring, too. The main issue withThunderball,though, is that not only is it way too long, but also that much of that excess run-time is taken up with Bond facing assassination in a wellness retreat – no, really – and pretty-looking but confusing and ultimately tedious underwater action with indistinguishable guys in SCUBA gear stabbing each other. The final battle between two huge armies of frogmen and mini-subs goes on for what feels like seven hours.
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Critics rank this film the 8th best Bond film ever. I’d place it in the mid teens.
Despite being a handsome looking and in some ways excellent movie, I would contend thatOHMSSis a fairly poor ‘Bond film’ per se, as it is so different in tone to all the others. Here, 007 is a much more vulnerable figure – verging on ineffectual at times. With its brainwashing plot and a more hip and very slightly more realistic approach to international espionage, the film arguably has more in common withThe Ipcress File, not that that is a bad thing.
Roger Moore: View To A Kill
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Roger Moore shows his serious side
Roger Moore shows his serious side
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Critics rank this film THE WORST Bond film ever. It’s not as bad asDie Another Daythough.
Dear old Roger disliked the film for several reasons. He thought it was too violent; he didn’t like Grace Jones and above all he was apparently appalled to discover that he was older than his main love interest’s grandmother. Yes you read that right; not her mother. Hergrandmother.
Even worse, for my money, there is a scene where Rog’has sex with Grace Jones.Were this to have happened in real life, it would have resulted in almost certain death for the ageing Moore, with the Amazonian model and funk-pop star snapping his spine like a twig and then probably having his leathery, rich, oaken skin made into some kind of jacket.
Timothy Dalton: License to Kill
Timothy Dalton in happier times, inFlash Gordon(Image credit: Getty)
Timothy Dalton in happier times, inFlash Gordon
Timothy Dalton in happier times, inFlash Gordon
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Critics rank this film the 11th best Bond film ever. It’s not even the 11th best Timothy Dalton Bond film ever.
Sir Tim only made two Bond films. The first,The Living Daylights, was a pretty solid effort despite another unmemorable baddie and some highly unfortunate wardrobe choices. Following directly on from late-period Moore, this was still the era of such fashion crimes as the blouson jacket.
The idea of Dalton’s Bond was that he was a more brutal figure than Roger Moore; more akin to pre-syrup Connery, or Bond as written in the books of Ian Fleming. Okay being more brutal than Roger Moore is about as difficult as being more sexy than the Pope, but someone had to do it. However,License to Killpossibly took this a bit too far, with Bond waging war on a drugs cartel after a gratuitously violent assault on two of his compadres at a wedding.
Pierce Brosnan: Die Another Day
Bond’s invisible BMW. Squint carefully and you can just about make it out(Image credit: Getty)
Bond’s invisible BMW. Squint carefully and you can just about make it out
Bond’s invisible BMW. Squint carefully and you can just about make it out
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Critics rank this film the 6th worst Bond film ever. Wrong again, guys.
Naturally, after the attempt to make things more gritty with Dalton, the Bond machine pulled off a swift reverse ferret and headed back to spectacle and gadgets, including a watch with a grappling hook in it. Yes, really: agrappling hook. Although that‘s not in this film; it’s in an earlier Brosnan one.
Unlike the other entries here,Die Another Dayis an objectively terrible film, and officially The Worst Bond Movie, at least in my house. Although arguably it ultimately moves into ‘so bad it’s good’ territory, so it’s not totally irredeemable.
Preposterous plots are not exactly unusual in Bond movies but that is among the least of this film’s worries. The CGI effects are not at all special, Madonna both ‘acts’ in the film and supplies the theme tune, and Brosnan appears heavily sedated throughout. And who can blame him? Oh, and Bond’s car is an invisible BMW. What BMW driver would want one that’s invisible?!
Daniel Craig: Spectre
Daniel Craig, dressed to kill(Image credit: Jonathan Olley / Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures)
Daniel Craig, dressed to kill
Daniel Craig, dressed to kill
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Critics rank this film the 8th worst Bond film ever. That’s about right.
We’ve got all theDaniel Craig Bond films rankedif you want to know more, butSpectrenarrowly beatsQuantum of Solaceto be handed the title of Worst Dan Craig Bond. It is just an overlong, incoherent bore to watch and Christopher Waltz, so memorably malign inInglourious Basterds, is more like an irritating middle manager than an evil genius who could rule the world.
There is some good stuff as well, of course – this is noDie Another Day. Ralph Fiennes as M wins my personal man of the match award, for uttering the one truly immortal line in the film. Upon unmasking Andrew Scott’s villainous C as a wrong ‘un, he booms, ‘NOW WE KNOW WHAT C STANDS FOR![short but perceptible pause]Careless.’ It’s perfectly obvious to me what hereallythinks ‘C’ stands for here.
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