10 Best James Bond Movies Of All Time

9. You Only Live Twice

By the time You Only Live Twice came around, James Bond had become huge - what you get here is the most expensive-looking Bond film of the Connery era (pre-2001: A Space Odyssey space effects that still hold up included). Dodgy attitudes to race aside (the plot requires Sean Connery to don 'yellowface' in order to blend in in '60s Japan), You Only Live Twice is absurdly entertaining, the first Bond film to go from spy thriller to all-out action movie.

It all builds to that insane climax, set inside the !*$% volcano lair of Donald Pleasance's hammy Blofeld, in which SPECTRE forces and gun-wielding ninjas (!) fight to the death. It's one of the great Bond finales, so big that subsequent movies have always had the unenviable task of trying to top it.

You Only Live Twice succeeds as a surprisingly modern blockbuster, with the film's excitement factor taking priority over any of that storyline mumbo jumbo (it has something to do with Blofeld stealing spaceships...). It's a loss for fans of Connery, who appears to be phoning it in a tad, but a real high point for fans of action cinema.