Ranking the James Bond 007 Films - 2016

A well-needed reboot which brought the Bond series into strong storytelling, well directed action and believable characters. It's as perfect as any film could be.

While later Bond films had bigger action, Dr. No's minimalism and careful attention to detail make it a great enduring spy film

Lazenby's performance is underrated. Stays true-to-Fleming. Strong score and great action.

Underrated. Bond is dangerous (so is his companion). Sanchez is a great villain and Q gets some quality screen time.

MI6 agents dressing up as clowns to collect an egg from a terrorist. Sign me up. The camp, the action and Moore being a gentleman are all there.

Kind of messy and half-baked, but I like that it took a different approach to Bond films with indie-style arthouse directing, a believable plot and an emotional edge.

Full of personality, atmosphere and a great cast all around.

Dalton's Fleming-like performance, a unique plot for the series and an epic war/airplane climax. With a better cast, it may have been the best.

Lots of beautiful scenery, Aki, some gratuitous helicopter action, an intro for Blofeld and a strong base-raiding conclusion.

Very fun. Brought back lots of classic Bondian elements for Craig. Needed better writing, a bigger climax and a better backstory for the villain.

Entertaining. Nice gadgets. But gets cartoony for a movie with a realistic premise, and gets bullet-laden for a spy movie.

The 2nd half of the movie is excellent with the train fight and Bond on an actually serious mission. For some reason I found the first half slow and dull.

Is mostly an entertaining Bondian epic with classic scenes, but the climax was weak and the last half-hour needed to be tightened up.

A return-to-form compared to Moonraker, but otherwise very standard. Needed a better villain and a female lead who can act.

It had a good idea with a complex thriller story and a unique pair of villains but it wasn't executed well and came out really corny.

I really liked the villains, the golden gate bridge fight and the self-parodying camp, but half the time it was just a slow lethargic drag.

Christopher Lee and his funhouse maze were really cool. It could've been a cohesive story of assassins, but half of the movie was spent on stupid gags.

Unofficial but underrated. It's nice to see pure chaotic absurdism over formula for a change. 7 James Bonds is a hilarious concept.

The gadgets, sci-fi, fencing scene are pretty cool. It had an interesting premise, but the writing and the directing were just really horrible.

It has Kiel, Lonsdale and a cool space lair, but that aside, it feels like a pretty generic Bond movie that just goes through the motions.

Connery's performance is really bad and he just doesn't agree with the camp elements of the film, like Moore's Bond eventually would.

An inferior unofficial copy of Thunderball. Weak directing, set-staging, soundtrack and acting (Basinger aside). Even Connery knew it was a gimmick.