Ranking Every James Bond Film - From Worst To Best

5. The Spy Who Loved Me

All of Roger Moore's series sins are forgiven here in The Spy Who Loved Me, an iconic entry and easily Moore's finest hour as Bond. As with one of the earlier entries on this list, it's best here to just reel off some of the famous moments: Jaws; Barbara Bach's dress; Karl Stromberg's lair, which rises up from underneath the ocean like some kind of Atlantis; the Lotus Elite, which transforms into a submersible to see Bond navigate it underwater before driving it out like a car again onto the beach, throwing a fish out of the window for good measure; Carly Simon's version of Nobody Does It Better; and of course the opening ski sequence, with Bond shooting off a cliff to his certain death, hanging in the air for what feels like a lifetime, falling, always falling, until, suddenly, with a great clang of the famous Bond chords, a parachute, a parachute proudly displaying a huge Union Jack, a parachute to see him to safety as the sequence segues into the song and we understand that yes, no, nobody does do it better. You can't ask for much more than that.