How many bond movies are there

Of course, foils the plot and saves the day and gets the girl. As the series was based on the novels by Ian Fleming, many of the tropes that have become ingrained in the series are already a part of it in the very first film, like the girls, the booze and the arch villains.

Released just one year after Dr. No , From Russia With Love continued to introduce fans to all the iconic pieces of the franchise. For the first time, fans met the head of Q branch, played by the legendary Desmond Llewelyn, a role he would play in an incredible 17 Bond films over the years. Continuing the run of releasing a movie a year, brought Goldfinger. When ranked, this film probably comes out on top the James Bond movie list most often. That's saying a lot considering how long it's been since its release and all the content that's followed.

Featuring an iconic theme song sung by Shirley Bassey, an iconic villain in Auric Goldfinger, an iconic Bond Girl with the most famous of names, Pussy Galore, played by Honor Blackmon, and an iconic henchman in Oddjob, Goldfinger is, to say the least, iconic. James Bond travels from London to Miami to Kentucky chasing the supervillain Goldfinger and in the end, saves the day when he foils Goldfinger's plan to rob Fort Knox. Released just 14 months after Goldfinger , Thunderball might have the campiest opening of any of the Connery James Bond movies, with Bond escaping while using a jet pack.

Nearly two decades, Warner Bros delivered a second adaptation of the original Thunderball novel, with Sean Connery playing Bond once more.

So Connery has the distinction of getting to perform in two different versions of one spy tale. He resigned halfway through filming, announcing that he would not return in the next film. For the first time on the screen, Sean Connery was not the star of a James Bond movie.

After Connery announced he was leaving, the producers went on a search for the next Bond. They landed on Australian George Lazenby, and they offered him a seven picture deal. Blofeld is back, this time played by the legendary Telly Savalas.

James Bond in the movie. George Lazenby has a little more of an edge to his version of Bond, and this one of the darker films in the series. Sean Connery is back! John and Lana Wood, respectively.

Oh well. Roger Moore became Bond and he would go on to make the role truly his own, playing it much campier and looser and less edgy than both Connery and George Lazenby had before him.

Live And Let Die marked a big change in the franchise as Moore was likely to be playing the role for a while. Not only did he play the role different but the tone of the movies changed to match it. You can find that on YouTube, if you're curious.

According to the critical consensus, Roger Moore isn't just the star of the worst James Bond movie -- this snowboarding entry -- he's the star of the worst James Bond movies, period. When combined and averaged, his films produce a franchise-low Metascore of A View to a Kill was Moore's seventh and final movie. The plot that Bond has to foil: Zorin's scheme to destroy Silicon Valley so he can control the market for computer chips. Metascore: As far as critics are concerned, this installment , Moore's second outing as , is another bottom-dweller in the James Bond franchise.

This offbeat, comic entry features a multitude of actors as James Bond. But more s do not make things merrier -- or better. Variety called this version of Casino Royale "a film of astounding sloppiness" and "an insult to the Bond name. This is one of the two noncanonical, non-Eon films in our rundown.

And for Bond completists -- sorry, we're not including the television production of Casino Royale, which portrayed our hero as Jimmy Bond, and an American to boot. The first of the four Pierce Brosnan Bond movies in this list gets credit for giving Michelle Yeoh an early Hollywood showcase -- but for little else.

According to Salon's Charles Taylor, this movie "scores zero in suspense, wit or class. When averaged, Brosnan's four James Bond movies post a That's on par with, but on the low end of, the other films of the Brosnan era. Critics are kinder, if still cool, to Roger Moore's fifth adventure. In the Chicago Sun-Times, critic Roger Ebert wrote that the film "is a competent James Bond thriller …[b]ut it's no more than that.

Nominated for a franchise-best three Oscars, this Roger Moore adventure nonetheless rated mixed reviews from critics. Roger Moore's first James Bond movie is, well, another middling effort -- at least per the critics. In retrospect, this film may have suffered by comparison with the just-concluded Sean Connery era. The final Pierce Brosnan James Bond film may have introduced the invisible car, but critics think of this film as a retread, not an innovator.

This film is the third Pierce Brosnan James Bond film. It co-stars Robert Carlyle as the villain Renard, who feels no pain; Sophie Marceau as the strikingly conflicted Elektra King; and Denise Richards as a nuclear physicist. The second -- and final -- James Bond movie of the Timothy Dalton era gets good marks as an action movie, but not necessarily as a movie. The franchise began back in , where Sean Connery made his debut as the character in Dr.

There have been two unofficial James Bond movies produced independently outside of Eon productions, the spoof Casino Royale starring David Niven and Never Say Never Again in , a remake of Thunderball which featured the return of Connery in the role. Since Dr. By the time Fleming died in aged 56, he had written 14 James Bond books and seven short stories.

Said arrogance very nearly results in the murder of 60, people and the destruction of the world economy. Speaking of which As such the casual cruelty including coercing Maud Adams to snitch on Scaramanga and not being all that upset when that betrayal costs her her life and stripped-down manhunt elements stand out especially compared to the next two big-scale Lewis Gilbert-directed efforts.

Pepper is inexcusable, especially in how it dilutes an otherwise strong big-scale chase scene and brings farce into an otherwise serious flick. Here they are handcuffed together for the motorcycle chase sequence. Brosnan effort glides along as one of the more relaxing films in the series.

Brosnan and Yeoh have little romantic chemistry, which is only an issue because the movie tries to present them as more than just hot spies who might want to sex each other. Here they struggle over the ATAC system at the end of the film.

John Glenn steps up for the first of five straight movies, as James Bond enters the s with a quieter shade of spy craft. It also contains one of the goofiest bits in the whole series, a prologue where Bond visits the grave of his murdered wife yay, continuity and then is attacked by and then swiftly murders an unnamed Blofeld by dropping the ultimate bad guy into a smoke stack. Yes, it was a bemusing extended middle-finger to Kevin McClory and the ongoing legal battles related to his ownership of the character and his attempts to make his own movies which resulted in the Thunderball remake Never Say Never Again.

The one that started it all, which meant that some of the pieces were not yet in place. Sean Connery nails the casual cruelty and above-it-all professionalism right off the bat. The plot, about a missing agent and an uncovered plot in Jamaica, actually comes off like many of the Pierce Brosnan movies, in that it starts as a grounded and real-world espionage movie only to detour into fantasy blockbuster-land in the second half.

Julius No in his impenetrable bad guy lair and hear about his plan to disrupt a space shuttle launch in the hopes to pitting America and Russia into war. So, by default, this is one of the more grounded Bond flicks, but it works on its own terms, features a star-making lead performance and remains great fun for fans to see the franchise come to life before our eyes. It is no secret that many films amount to "James Bond plays in this particular genre sandbox," usually as a come from behind attempt to emulate the success of a recent hit or new genre.

The screenplay was partially written by Paul Haggis, so we get a get more introspection and "we are the enemy" pathos this time around. Those who complained that arch villain Mathieu Amalric's scheme to basically steal water from impoverished locals wasn't evil enough need to have their proverbial privilege checked.

The film works as a take on the action styling of the Bourne franchise along with their liberal guilt politics. Here is a mega-budget blockbuster where the American government is explicitly portrayed as one of the bad guys. Olga Kurylenko's main Bond girl is wholly focused on revenge, a revenge that she is allowed to take sans moral scolding. Even though we can't see the action as clearly as we might like, the car chases, foot chases, and shootouts especially the first act foot chase and a second act beat at an opera feature terrific staging and superb stunt work.

Unlike Skyfall, which is rooted in nostalgia and reaffirmed a decades-old status quo, Quantum of Solace attempts to take the franchise into uncharted territory.

It doesn't entirely work Bond never takes the chance to defend himself even when M thinks he has gone rogue , but I admired the hell out of the attempt. Barbara Bach shines as a rival Soviet superspy Triple X who is every bit as capable as The larger-than-life action and ridiculously large sets set the tone for the prototypical Roger Moore entry, even if it has more in common with late-era Connery.

In some ways, Octopussy does feel like the one of the least essential movies. It also features a heavily-stunt-doubled but surprisingly on-the-ball year-old Moore romancing a female lead Maud Adams as the title character who was closer to 40 than 20 at the time. Otherwise, we may well have seen Timothy Dalton always a strong contender for whenever Moore decided to hang it up in both Octopussy and A View to a Kill. Speaking of