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: 1974
The 007: Roger Moore
The (non-UK) location(s): Hong Kong, Beirut, Bangkok
The theme song: "The Man With the Golden Gun" performed by Lulu
Moore's second outing as 007 was even worse than his first—and one of the least-liked entries in the entire franchise. Golden Gun is the fourth and final Bond film directed by Guy Hamilton (whose best was Goldfinger), but he lacked the golden touch with his adaptation of Fleming's final Bond novel—though the novel itself was the recipient of mediocre reviews. Set mainly across Southeast Asia, the film finds Bond targeted by the expert three-nippled assassin Francisco Scaramanga (played by Christopher Lee) as he searches for a device called a solex agitator. And who doesn't love a good solex agitator search?
“Mr. Moore functions like a vast garden ornament. Pedantic, sluggish on the uptake, incapable of even swaggering, he's also clumsy at innuendo. If you enjoyed the early Bond films as much as I did, you'd better skip this one.” —Nora Sayre, The New York Times
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