No Time To Die : All 5 Daniel Craig James Bond Films Ranked

5. Quantum Of Solace

To date the only 007 film that is a direct sequel, Quantum of Solace - like every sequel which tries to sustain itself purely on the merits of its predecessor - tries to imitate everything Casino Royale did well, but instead drives those concepts into a crashing failure, proving firmly that Bond is by nature, and should be kept as, an episodic franchise.

The result includes but is not limited to: a painfully contrived romance; a "villainous" scheme as thin as a string bean ("Water" is the clearest notion as to what the entire plot was actually about); a villain who is by equal measures forgettable and unfathomable; action that is indeed fast-paced and spectacular but also unfollowable; all neatly wrapped in a miserably drab tone which succeeds absolutely in depressing the audience.

Daniel Craig himself as Bond does his best with what's given to him, but even this one strong pillar can't uphold the film as a whole.

This is the only film of Craig's tenure which can be described as positively, irredeemably bad.