It’s tired in execution, from Madonna’s dreadful theme song, to Bond’s lame invisible car, to some of the worst effects work of the entire franchise. Really, very few people involved with this thing look like they wanted to be there. Meanwhile, the love scenes between Brosnan and Halle Berry are surprisingly intense, but the two actors don’t seem to have much chemistry otherwise. And yet it has so much promise: a credit sequence that (mostly) forgoes the gyrating ladies for shots of Bond being tortured while he rots away in a North Korean prison the henchman with diamonds embedded in his face the swashbuckling sequences and Rosamund Pike’s ice-perfect performance as triple-agent Miranda Frost, who betrays Bond, seduces him, then betrays him again. And this – his final outing – was the low-point of his reign. Hot take: Pierce Brosnan could have been the best James Bond, but he often got saddled with the worst movies. Where does the new one stand with respect to all other Bond movies? And which one is the best? Here, all the James Bond films, ranked. Case in point: This week’s often-enjoyable No Time to Die sometimes seems to suffer from a certain self-importance … which, back when the Daniel Craig Bond era first kicked off with Casino Royale, felt downright bracing and revolutionary.
And then, a decade or so later, all the things that once seemed new start to feel old or tired. Each generation gets a different version of the spy, in movies that have to include just enough preordained elements to qualify them as Bond pictures while still working as plain old movies.
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That is a challenge but also one of the reasons the James Bond series has continued to be popular for more than 50 years. Which means that the films often satisfy different genre needs depending on the mood you’re in or what year it is on the calendar.
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Before you hit “send” on the death threat, consider this: Our opinions on James Bond movies often vary dramatically because what makes a good Bond movie isn’t always what makes a good action movie or spy thriller and vice versa.
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