Every James Bond Movie, Ranked Worst to Best
With this month's arrival (finally!) of No Time to Die, there have now been 25 official films in the EON-produced James Bond film franchise based on author Ian Fleming's British spy character. In the gallery on this page, we rank every one of those films—plus two additional Bond features from outside producers—from worst to best based on their Metascores, which represent the consensus of a group of top professional film critics.
Right now, it's fairly easy to find most of the Bond films on streaming services (and if it's not on the streaming service you have, it likely will be shortly, as the films are deleted from and re-added to various services every few months). That could change in the future thanks to a recent deal by Amazon to acquire MGM, which currently holds the home video rights to most of the Bond catalog, though there are no definitive plans to make Prime Video the exclusive home of 007 ... yet.
All photos courtesy Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios except Casino Royale (1967) by Columbia Pictures and Never Say Never Again by Warner Bros.
The year: 2008
The 007: Daniel Craig
The (non-UK) location(s): Italy, Haiti, Austria, Bolivia, Russia
The theme song: "Another Way to Die" performed by Alicia Keys and Jack White
The Bond franchise was always episodic in nature, but that changed in 2008 with the franchise's first true sequel. Picking up directly following the events of 2006's series reboot Casino Royale, Quantum of Solace finds Bond seeking to avenge the death (in that prior film) of his love interest Vesper Lynd (Eva Green), who was killed by the criminal organization known as Quantum. (The film's somewhat awkward full title comes directly from an Ian Fleming short story.)
But the Marc Forster-directed film was a commercial and critical disappointment compared to its predecessor, undoing much of the goodwill that Casino Royale created in the critic community with an overly convoluted and dour story. Reviewers also felt that Forster, who had previously directed dramas like Monster's Ball and The Kite Runner, didn't have the mastery of action sequences that a Bond film requires (though he would later do a somewhat better job on World War Z).
“This is 007 in mid-story crisis; a festival of blaring action set-pieces propping up a scrappy script and undercooked characters.” —Andy Lowe, Total Film
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