Every James Bond Movie Ranked Worst To Best

And that brings us to the #1 James Bond film of all time, a movie that came along and reimagined the entire series with the most spectacular results: Casino Royale.

Drafting in Daniel Craig to play 007 for the first time, the film is part action-thriller, part tender romance, and part slow-burn poker game, split into three distinct parts in order to capture every aspect of what makes Craig's Bond tick.

Directed by GoldenEye's Martin Campbell, Casino Royale opens in striking black-and-white as Bond earns his 00 license, then explodes into all-out action before settling into a tense, poker-driven midsection, where he comes face-to-face with Mads Mikkelson's desperate big bad Le Chiffre.

But for all its violence, uncomfortable torture scenes and opening parkour, the best part of the film comes from the romance at its centre, which finds Bond at his most vulnerable and open thanks to Eva Green's scene-stealing Vesper Lynd.

Casino Royale is moving, heart-stopping, bloody, and uncompromising, and made sure to cement Daniel Craig as a force to be reckoned with from the get-go. The franchise has truly never been better, and probably never will be this flawless again.