50 Greatest James Bond Moments Of All Time

46. The World Is Not Enough: Submarine Finale

The Spy Who Loved Me
MGM

One of the most important parts of any James Bond film is its finale and while some James Bond finales leave a lot to be desired - Diamonds are Forever, Moonraker, The Living Daylights, Die Another Day and Spectre, looking at all of you - most Bond films have got this aspect right.

The World is Not Enough, one of the franchise's most underrated instalments, offers up one of the best Bond finales in the form of a claustrophobic, brutally tense battle inside a flooding nuclear submarine.

With its tight choreography, fearsome antagonist (Robert Carlyle) and high stakes (Bond is trying to prevent a nuclear bomb that will kill millions of people), this is a seriously effective and suspenseful climax that not even the presence of Denise RIchards as Dr Christmas Jones can undermine. It's an absolute blast.

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