James Bond: Every Sean Connery Movie Ranked Worst To Best

The film has an incredible first hour full of espionage, good action set pieces and sparkling dialogue - which pushes Thunderball further up this list than perhaps it deserves - but after that it manages to hit a brick wall.

Setting the action finale underwater was a bold move but one that only makes the last 30 minutes feel excruciatingly dull. There are only so many masked men in scuba gear getting harpooned you can watch before your eyes glaze over. This is a problem which Never Say Never Again failed to deal with too which only begs the question why this Ian Fleming novel was adapted twice if both could not translate the finale to the big screen.

As Sean Connery’s fourth Bond outing this also feels like the first one where he may be a bit past his prime as the age gap between the young Bond girls and him feels slightly uncomfortable. Whether Connery was aware this was not up to the quality of his previous films is unclear but it certainly marked the start of a downhill trajectory for the rest of his era.