Every James Bond Finale Ranked

This ending - in which Bond (Timothy Dalton) and main Bond Girl Kara Milvoy (Maryam D'Abo) try to destroy the opium that the two lead villains are planning to sell - is the definition of a mixed bag. It can be divided into three parts.

Firstly, there's a battle in an Afghanistan airfield. This set-piece was already forgettable, but the fact that it features Bond working with the Mujahedeen, who would eventually become the Taliban, has ensured that this entire sequence has aged about as awfully as can be (especially in light of recent events).

Then, the action moves to the cargo plane carrying the opium and this is pretty awesome. There's a hell of a lot of hand-wringing tension and Bond's fight with a henchman on a dangling cargo net is sublime.

And finally, there's an anticlimactic and daft showdown with both of this film's main villains (who are among the worst villains in the series) in Tangier, in which one of them is killed by being... hit on the head with a bust of admiral Nelson. Right.

So yeah, mostly a pretty underwhelming climax but there's still some entertainment to be had.