10 Best James Bond Movies Of All Time

6. On Her Majesty's Secret Service

It's a favourite of Steven Soderbergh and Christopher Nolan's (the film's an obvious influence on Inception) and it's now generally well-regarded by fans, but at the time of its release, On Her Majesty's Secret Service didn't go down so well. Critics and audiences of 1969 weren't open to seeing Bond get all reflective and sad, nor were they yet used to the idea of multiple actors taking on the role.

Time has been kind to the film, however; as Soderbergh has written, Secret Service is "beautiful in a way none of the other Bond films are". It's a cool, quintessentially '60s movie, shot with visual panache by director Peter R. Hunt, who brings well-staged action, a creepy oddball villain (Telly Savalas!) and potentially the greatest Bond girl of all time in Diana Rigg. Oh, and the most unfairly derided Bond actor ever.

George Lazenby, who performed many of Bond's stunts himself, lends a raw physicality to Bond that wouldn't resurface until Daniel Craig took the role on decades later. Despite the commonly held notion that Lazenby is the worst Bond ever, he's more accurately on a par with Dalton (and better than Roger Moore - that goes without saying) - in that final scene alone, Lazenby does more emotional heavy lifting than any Bond actor did until the Craig era.