10 Greatest James Bond Movie Opening Title Sequences

Following Maurice Binder's death in 1991, Daniel Kleinman first took the helm with the show-stopping opening sequence for Pierce Brosnan's first outing as 007, GoldenEye.

The digital effects are all but immaculate (especially given they were made in the mid-'90s), announcing this as the first post-Cold War Bond with seamlessly blended graphics of guns, girls and crumbling icons of old Soviet leaders, telling a story of the fall of Communism, complete with falling sickles and women swinging hammers.

It makes full use of a pastel palette that moves from an explosive orange into the blood-red of the fallen USSR, through to a decidedly detached and imperial blue, setting the stage for the new international political climate that this new Bond would operate in.

The lead-in and-out of the opening sequence works perfectly with the pace and staging on not only the specific shots before and after, but the tone and feel of the film as a whole, building into the title track with music video precision. The track itself is performed by Tina Turner and written by half of U2, a formula which may not scream '007 gold', and yet...

With GoldenEye, Turner captures much of what made Bassey so popular in the sixties and seventies, and the strings and horns throughout keep the ear trained towards the past while the eye and sights face the future in exquisite detail.