Ranking Every James Bond Film - From Worst To Best

7. Goldeneye

Pierce Brosnan's first outing as James Bond came six years after Timothy Dalton and the previous film, the gap between License to Kill and this, Goldeneye, the longest in franchise history. The Irishman became an instant fit with the role, part Connery-suave, part Dalton-tough, and the perfect man to take Bond the character - and Bond the series - into the 90s. Supported greatly by Sean Bean and Famke Janssen (memorable as the sexually deviant henchwoman who has a habit of killing men literally with her thighs), Goldeneye sees director Martin Campbell - who would later reinvent the franchise once more - guide Brosnan through a pretty standard tale of stolen satellites and Cold War throwbacks. What elevates the film is the relationship between Brosnan's Bond and Bean's Alec Trevelyan - once partners, now enemies, in one of the great Bond twists. Add to that a destructive tank sequence through the streets of St. Petersburg and a great early race between Bond's classic Aston Martin and Xena Onatopp's candy-red Ferrari, and you have the components of what was a great Bond film for a new era.