13. The World Is Not Enough
If this list was judged solely on the number of great moments in a Bond film (or aspects of), The World is Not Enough might be top five Bond, top ten at the very least. Here's a selection: the opening boat chase, which is one of the series' very best pre-credits sequences; Sophie Marceau as a brilliant, seductive, titillating, dangerous Bond girl; Robert Carlyle as a near-classic Bond villain; Bond strapped to the torture chair while Marceau's Elektra King straddles him, surely one of the franchises most sexually-charged moments; the helicopter with the giant buzz-saw attached to it, a truly ingenious Bond creation that deserves mentioning more often. Alas, these moments don't make The World is Not Enough into a truly cohesive film, and it ends up as good Bond, rather than a great one, as a consequence - the film's fare share of stupid moments doesn't help with this, with the truly shocking miscasting of Denise Richards as a nuclear physicist (Dr. Christmas Jones) prime among them. Still though, The World is Not Enough is a thoroughly enjoyable late-Bond, with Pierce Brosnan easing nicely into the role in his third outing. The film also sees the great line "I thought Christmas only came once a year", which has to be Bond's most overtly sexual line ever.