Every James Bond Movie Pre-Credits Scene Ranked Worst To Best

This is a weak opening to one of the best films in the series.

In it, main Bond Girl Tracy (Diana Rigg) attempts suicide by drowning, but Bond (George Lazenby) saves her. Two of the men employed by Tracy's gangster-father then attack him (for some reason), but he beats them up effortlessly and she drives off. Cue the opening titles.

The cinematography in this opening is as strong as it is throughout the film, but other than that this opening just doesn't work. The fight scene is ruined by terrible sped-up footage and Tracy being suicidal is never really explained or mentioned again after this scene.

As well as this, it ends with a terrible fourth-wall break: Bond says "This never happened to the other fellow." This line of dialogue has always felt like a smug and ill-judged attempt at being meta and it also inspired the long fan theory that the different Bond actors are all playing different characters with the same code name.

This felt like something that could break the whole franchise before, but in the wake of No Time to Die giving Craig's Bond a definitive ending it doesn't feel quite so unacceptable. Still, it remains a pretty poor opening scene to a great film.