Chart Position: 6th Worldwide Gross: $872,349,619 It ended 2015 as the number one film in the UK, but Spectre, the 24th official James Bond film, had to settle for a place just outside the worldwide top five (and only 42nd on the All-Time charts). A polarising Bond entry, Spectre garnered nowhere near the amount of acclaim as its predecessor, Skyfall, did, and it remains that the film is a disappoint in terms of the high, high expectations set by Sam Mendes first Bond picture. Spectre, however, does indeed have its moments, not least the spectacular pre-credits sequence, which serves as perhaps the finest in all of Bond. Add to that a new, memorable henchman (Dave Bautistas Hinx), and a Bond girl for the ages (Lea Seydouxs Madeline Swan) and you have the components of a good, if not quite great, James Bond movie. If Spectre is proof of anything, though, its that Bond, the most lucrative, successful, enduring franchise in cinema history, shows no signs of slowing down, and that the films, regardless really of their quality, are always going to conquer the box office, especially in Great Britain.
