Ranking Every James Bond Film - From Worst To Best

10. Spectre

The latest Bond film just makes it into the top ten, on the one hand a bloated, expensive, overlong entry into the Bond franchise, on the other a dazzling, nostalgic, thoroughly enjoyable follow-up to Skyfall. It's definitely a flawed film, but there's simply too much good here to not include it. The Day of the Dead pre-credits sequence, for instance, which uses a Touch of Evil-esque tracking shot to follow Daniel Craig's Bond through the skeleton-mask-wearing crowd, up into a hotel, into a room where he steals a kiss from a woman, and out onto the rooftops, maneuvering them gracefully, nonchalantly, every now and then adjusting his cuffs or tie with a machine gun in hand. It's one of the great sequences in all of Bond. Elsewhere, Léa Seydoux and Monica Bellucci make for a great one-two of Bond Girls, there's a new memorable Henchman in Dave Bautista's Mr. Hinx, and Daniel Craig is as great as ever as Bond, still icy and annihilating but this time a bit more playful, a little more acknowledging of the absurdity of his status as an assassin. He is now every bit Sean Connery's equal. Christoph Waltz is a little underwhelming as Blofeld (don't complain about that being a spoiler, if you didn't already know you shouldn't be this far into the list), and there's a few set-pieces that don't quite thrill like the ones in Skyfall, but overall Spectre is an impressive achievement in its own right, harking back to 60s Bond in its gags and nostalgia, yet still ultra modern in its depiction of 007 as man coming terms with his own existence in an age of technological warfare.