Every James Bond Movie Ranked Worst To Best
3. Skyfall (2012)
On Her Majesty's Secret Service might be the most personal and emotionally charged Bond film on offer, but Skyfall is a very close second.
Featuring a brilliantly exposed Craig performance and the franchise's single most beautiful imagery courtesy of director Sam Mendes and the film's various natural backdrops, the film follows Bond as he takes on Javier Bardem's horrifying villain Raoul Silva and confronts his long-hidden past.
Digging deep into the complexities of a weathered and past-his-prime 007, Skyfall opens with Adele's haunting title track and never loses its footing from there, moving between stunts with startling precision and working wonders with the relationship of Bond and M at its centre.
After the misstep that was Quantum of Solace four years earlier, it's safe to say fans were apprehensive about a return to Daniel Craig's world, but Skyfall was violent, horrific and challenging enough to put everyone's worries to bed with the first scene alone.