The Worst Moment Of Every James Bond Film - Ranked

22. Goldeneye - Sauna Fight

Xenia Bond Goldeneye
MGM

Goldeneye is another Bond film where bad individual scenes are hard to find. Still, there is one thing that does linger in the memory: this mid-film fight scene.

The sauna fight scene between Bond (Pierce Brosnan) and Xenia Onatopp (Famke Janssen), during which they also make-out, is very silly overall and the way in which Xenia, a genuinely terrifying character throughout much of the film, just gives up at the end and takes Bond to her boss is jarringly out-of-character for this formidable side-villain.

The scene where Xenia murders a man during sex was also misjudged and far too strong for a Bond film, but that moment is still undeniably striking while this scene will just induce eye-rolls and little else. Therefore, the sauna scene comes out 'on top' as the worst scene in this superb action film.

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