Every Bond Girl Ranked - Worst To Best

Almost completely charmless, but with good reason. Imagine Timothy Dalton’s Licence to Kill performance reincarnated as a fiery and scarred Bond Girl. That startling image is the undiluted essence of what Camille is all about. Clearly, charm is relatively low on her list of priorities.

Camille spends the entirety of Quantum of Solace hellbent on vengeance against the film’s secondary villain General Medrano, with her near-permanent scowl and pitch-black backstory fitting representations of a particularly joyless entry in the James Bond canon.

From her first line to Bond (“get in”) it’s clear that their relationship won’t be the usual romancing-the-pants-off fare; the two are drawn together by necessity, with their respective lists of allies dwindling to only one another in their separate vendettas. Indeed, Camille has the distinction of being the sole (main) Bond girl in the history of the franchise not to do the dirty deed with 007. Instead, the foundation of their relationship is based on an eventual mutual respect.

While her undoubtable strength and determination must be commended, in a colourful franchise gallery that includes a host of vibrant and memorable heroines, Camille’s desert-dry, oil-black nature ultimately sinks her in the rankings. Did you even remember her last name?

Best moment: When slimy villain Dominic Greene remarks that Camille is “really quite stunning… once you get her on her back”, she sneeringly retorts “I wish I could say the feeling was mutual”. A sick burn indeed, though the image it inevitably summons of a sweaty and pasty Greene is… just sick.

Worst moment: In a film much derided for its frenetic editing, the Haiti boat chase is perhaps the worst offender. A baffling sequence involves Bond rescuing Camille against her will, then dumping her off the second they get ashore, leaving us wondering why we were subjected to that barrage of jerky images at all.