James Bond 007 Movies Ranking: Worst to Best (1962 to 2015) 

Big brain.

You rebels!!😂 I admire you so much

Wow, you mean in Britian they wont let you in even with a parent? Thats messed up. Big brother knows best i guess, not father.

@@harrisonosirrah When the film came out I think the classification was "12" and I was 7 at the time. A few years later they introduced "12A" which means you can watch if you're under 12 but only with an adult.

@@gemsandlasers269 12 A means that you can watch it if you're under 12, but only with an approved member of a sanctioned government pedophile ring.

MLG R6 Not to be that guy, but 1) you are that guy, and 2) november still is more than exactly a year from the release and production of this video

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ITS *N0 TIME T0 D7E* BY THE C0R0NAV7RUS.

COVID-19 is the most effective Bond villain

666, nice.

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Same. I dislike more Bond films than like them. I'd say my % is about 30 ish as well. The ones that I do like, I really enjoy though.

@@bigbake132 What are some of the ones you like? Myself, I like all of them for one reason or another.

Same man, really only care for Craig, Brosnen, and Dalton’s bonds but I respect the others (particularly Connery) for their performances but I never go back to watch gold finger or the man with the golden gun etc, etc.

@@smooothskiiin4923 Craig is the worst bond bro what the fuck you talking about man. Skyfall and Spectre are both trash

that really happened?

@@Soundbraid I believe so, yes. If you watch it again it's very easy to see Connery in the role.

@@JoeEnglandShow I was picturing him in the role as well when watching the movie for the first time

A cool idea I had world be too have the old Bond actor do a cameo to the new Bond actors in the movies. So Connery could have done it for Lasenbee but then Connery came back but he could have done it for More then more for Dalton then Dalton for Brosnan then Brosnan for Craig

Connery did the From Russia with Love game. Like Brosnan it was a great send off even if they didn't get a proper final film.

Brosnan was one of my favourites.

I'd say the whole Franchise since View to a Kill. Goldeneye, Tomorrow Never Dies were fine. The World is Not Enough and Die Another Day started out well. Then just fell apart.

@@leftcoaster67 Licence to Kill is an absolute masterpiece.

TND is good also

Nate Puterbaugh did you know that Pierce Brosnan was suppose to be 007 in The Living Daylights, but NBC screwed him out of the role?

The00Game they just couldn’t let me have this one thing...

Calvin - Bond Reviewer did you see the set photos from Bond 25?

I mean, you were just about a month and a half early.

they're killing Bond off stevepafford.com/jamesbonddead/

New trailer is dope

true

Easily the most realistic Bond we ever had

Licence to kill is a great film

Agreed

@@itachi-kun7736 i like his bobd

ikr it’s so good

Quite frankly the most overrated Bond movie. The thought of a mercenary having the type of artillery that puts MI6 to shame is laughable. It's not a serious film.

@@zziicckk01 I also think Skyfall is a little overrated, but I think it's top 5 material

great soundtrack but the ending was a bit meh for me.

@@zziicckk01 fair, but skyfall Imo is the beat Craig bond movie

right whats the point in remaking thunderball it was fine but never say never enema bag was boring if you get connery back give him something new to do

@@gkroll8467 Never Say Night Again isn't just boring, it's ugly as sin. Take Thunderball, remove Barry's score, Adam's sets, Moore's cinematography, the classy 60s fashions, Fiona Volpe, the sense of a real, lush location, and finally any sense of plausibility whatsoever, and replace it with the aesthetics of a low-budget Italian film from the 70s, cheap ugly video game references, and gadgets straight out of Get Smart. It makes even 1967's Casino Royale look incredible.

@@andrewklang809 correct whats the point in getting connery back if youre gonna remake a film that fine in the first place probabaly strict rules that brocoli put on them still it was a waste of time well connery got 5 million for it and back then that was a lot of money

never again

never ever never again

@Starscream91 Makes it obvious right from the beginning that he was Janus.

Starscream91 Inductive reasoning.

@Starscream91 Compare the opening credits vs the opening credits of The Usual Suspects.

Enrique Comas the Goldeneye trailer gave the 006/Janus spoiler. One of the worst trailers ever. Great movie though.

"Goledneye" would be in the top three for me, if David Arnold had done the score. As it stands, I detest the score and so the movie ranks in the lower part of the top ten.

no it doesn't

watched it last night! reminds me of pablo Escobar vibes

License to Kill was the first movie I watched in a surround sound theater. It has been my favorite since then. Most fans hated it, but it has moved up in the eyes of most fans in recent years

Brad Bruhn oh real, my first bond was 🤔🤔🤔probs tomorrow never dies which is dreadful 😂 who’s your fav bond ?

I really don't have a favorite Bond...I have a least favorite, George Lazenby hahahaha. I really thought Connery was a great Bond to open the Cinematic Series with. Moore added more of a lighter take on the character. Dalton's take was criticized for years, but has come to be more revered due to Craig's take. I really thought Brosnan really did a great job of taking aspects of Connery, Moore and Dalton. Craig is more of an anti-hero.

they didnt give john cleese a try desmond tragically died in a car crash in 1999 when they released twino.

Yes!!! I agree it’s one of my most favourites

This is one of my favorites but Goldeneye is my #1

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Best Bond girl name... "Truly Scrumptious". I'm guessing the actual Bond girl name would be "Truly Scrumptious-Legs"

Featuring Auric Goldfinger and Q

The movie is definitely more a Roald Dahl movie than an Ian Fleming movie.

Goldfinger is best in my opinion.

how tf could you like on her majesty's secret service... Its literally the sewers into film form

@@Webby104 On Her Majesty's Secret Service is the best of all. It follows the book much closer and, therefore, is a superior movie.

@Christopher Townsend Which one do you think? Hahaha

Take out CR (meh) and Skyfall (🤮) and that makes it pretty much my Top 5!! (I might change the order slightly, but good choices!)

Yeah, still can’t understand how he still puts moonraker above it. I predict it will as least switch places with moonraker

And yet that still won't be as shocking as him liking Thunderball.

Yes I think he puts Moonraker above LTK just to troll Bond fans @@patrickmedland7473

LtK is top 5, don't @ me

WAY more story in LTK...

It's impossible for me to separate my enjoyment of goldeneye the movie from the video game. Is everyone who played the video game just blinded by nostalgia or is the movie itself actually good?

Overall I don't understand such obsession over Craig's tenure. Sure he was great but none of his moments really stand out to me.

I don't understand its stature as a near top Bond film either. It's middling at best. Sure, great villain performance, but poor pacing, convoluted plot and "Home Alone" ending bring it down.

I love it

I'm in a strange place where I think Quantum of Solace is better than Skyfall and Casino Royale... but then none of them are in my top 10...

I think Dalton is closer to the books' Bond, and I love him but the Brosnan films have the perfect balance of fun, action and grit. They are the ones I rewatch if I fancy a quick Bond moment.

Agreed, Brosnan has nailed the balance from Dalton's serious Bond with Moore's kooky Bond. His reaction in Tomorrow Never Dies with the inflatable tires is my absolute fave.

@@terryf6696 I think Brosnan has the look and plays bond with alot of range from serious to fun and cool. Dalton was kind of serious and one note and wasn't necessarily cool but he was a more believable real world character. I love dalton but brosnan has the look and range and made mediocre movies fun and had two really good films

I agree with most of this except that any Brosnan movies were mediocre. As I said, to me they are the most rewatchable. They got the perfect balance of everything that makes a bond. I even rewatch Die Another Day with childish glee, quite regularly. But maybe I'm just weird 😆

And he didn't need a Blofeld or Felix to be great.

Yeah as a film Spectre is a good film, but compare it to the other film in the Craig era its attrotious

@@ey7290 Its a bad film in all eras. Bottom barrel bond film.

It commits the worst Bond sin of being boring, even the really bad Bond films are fun or memorable or amusing.

I just found it forgetful, there were so many memorable scenes from Casino: the cardiac arrest, the sinking Venice building, bond getting his balls itched by a rope or the free running etc. I have nothing like that for spectre.

And than u watch quantom of solace

Dalton and creig are the most book acurate bonds

@@nitsuagaming6121 yes

@@kunalkishore2897 i think broznan he looked like a bond and played it fucking well. Dalton was great. But Daniel wasn't bad he was just violent in his movies yes i know its James bond and that's what happens in them but his was insane for me. Not saying he's bad tho

@@dapaintbrush6965 yes I really love Brosnan as bond

I liked him to he was probably the best action bond

It came out about 4 months ago in the UK. I don’t know about any other countries.

please no not that non funny ugly mutt

Agreed.

Mine was *GOLDENEYE*

Goldeneye started my love for the series

Goldeneye was my first

I just wached the living daylights and I must say Dalton is my favorite bond he was great in the action and believable becase he did most of the stunts by him self also in the emotional scenes you can feel his pain sadness and anger for revenge. He was the most prepared to play bond by reading all the novels into bringing the caracter back to a serious and coldblooded agent after Moore's campiness he really brought back that side of the caracter.Really pity he did only 2 movies I would've love to see more bond movies with him.

Certainly! :D

I would love this!

It's my third favourite Bond film, and my top non-Craig one.

Other than QoS, yes.

Not really. It's Casino Royale. I like unnecessary deaths. The end is a bit odd though.

As it has a right. It's an amazing film.

Daniel Craig’s Bond is what would be considered the more rugged version of 007. I think it’s a more modern choice stylistically.

Well, he takes his time to present his arguments so is hard to be angry with him, besides he is doing it from a very personal standpoint which is neat. Is like talking about your favorite songs, it really depends on your mood.

I disagree too but he has good arguments.

Joey Cage, I absolutely love it, Moore is my No2 Bond behind Brosnan!

@@pr-tj5by agree! Bronson 1 Moore 2

Your awesome! Cant agree more!

It’s fun and certainly much better than NSNA but it sits between 15 and 19 in my rankings. The plot is too convoluted and they inserted too much comedy for a movie that would’ve been more suited to being more serious. I’d certainly take it over every Brosnan movie after Goldeneye and Licence To Kill anyday.

Octopussy is Moore's best for me. Which doesn't say that much. The Moore films are all quite bad for me but Octopussy is somewhat enjoyable.

Im one of those people who think he should have done another one. I read he was supposed to do another one but his contract was cut short for really bullshit reasons. It was known recently that Brosnan had been plain and simply fired for no reason on a phone call. Brosnan really wanted to go out with a bang and I think many fans wanted that too even though as to the point of Die Another Day the series was at an all time low. But I truly think Brosnan deserved way better.

My fav as well. Very true Necro. Totally agree.

shame on u

He is the most well elegant and well-rounded of the bunch for sure. He is the ideal bond, too bad he was so unfairly ruined and tossed aside.

@@necroplastful True, DAD is not a good movie, but it was Brosnan's highest grossing Bond movie.

I'd argue "guilty pleasure" is just a nice way to say it's a really great james bond movie that has a lot of technical issues and has to be first viewed from the lens of a 12 year old boy. in that respect the opinion of film critics is irrelevant and it can stand alone as an enjoyable "bond goes to space and saves the world" movie.

@@rwgeach Yeah, that's a great way to put it

"Diamonds Are Forever" is my guilty pleasure.

Once I accepted Moonraker's sci-fi plot it actually rose substantially in my ranking.

Pretty sure it was delayed even before that... because of a destroyed set or something. And it’s still coming in 2020 so...

Thank you SO MUCH, Laura! Really appreciate this! The Bond fandom is certainly a more lowkey one than the like of Star Wars or such but given that we’re all fans of a super spy, maybe that’s appropriate... Haha, thanks very much again :)

I agree!!!!! Calvin always brightens my day

Hit us with that list!

Same here! Although I didn't quite get to enjoy it upon release as I would have been around.. four years old 😄 But it has always remained my favourite ever since I first watched it. At this point, Bond has resigned for personal vendetta so many times it would almost be more surprising if he actually stayed on her majesty's secret service for the entirety of No Time To Die.

Yes I agree!!!! It’s one of my most favourite Bond films ever. It’s just fabulous

Surely you're joking, Mr Feynman... :)

@@grantmalone Hah, I’m glad the profile picture was recognisable.

Basically from Russia with love. That's Hitchcock all over

Totally agree jm Casey this for me is Sean's best and along with Roger were my favourites.

I agree; it’s my favourite Bond Film

FRWL is the best James Bond spy movie to date. Comes in at #2 on my list.

"Diamonds Forever," while not a great Bond movie, I really enjoy it primarily because Connery seems to be having such a good time. It's a guilty pleasure.

Still not number one. He'll be ready one day.

It's a revenge movie and a very good one

It will always be remembered as "the one they made during the writers' strike" unfortunately. I liked some of the things it did, but having played the game first, I found the experience of finally watching it ... surreal lol

QoS definitely improves on second viewing. Far from the best, but definitely in top half.

On second watch, QoS went from a 6/10 to a 8/10 for me. I rlly enjoy it now

I like Quantum too. Not my favorite but it’s decent.

Honestly, if you trim 15 minutes off the unnecessary final action sequence, it is probably top 4.

It has recently become my very favorite Bond movie. It's not the best (I'd say OHMSS or CR is the best) but I just personally love it. Favorite soundtrack, favorite Bond, and some admittedly boring yet interesting villains.

Certainly more than Licence To Kill. It’s a pretty awesome movie that’s held up well in general, aside from obvious things like Bond siding with the Arabs who splintered into the Taliban later. Many scenes look surprisingly modern and seem like they were shot yesterday. Licence To Kill is too much of a relic of it’s era. It’s like a TV movie of some police procedural like Magnum PI mixed with a violent action movie like Death Wish and Die Hard starring James Bond and friends loaded up with all the late 80s tropes like ninjas, forced love triangles, waterskiing and roadhouse fights.

@@marcod4538 Very good point. Apart from the plane scene which is great, alot of the Afghan stuff was a bit boring.

This might get people stirred but living daylights is number 2

Same here

Great tiers, Innes! Looks like we have a few similarities. Also nice to see YOLT so high on another list! It's a fantastic movie.

Calvin - Bond Reviewer thanks! YOLT was one of the first Bond films I saw (grew up in the gap between Brosnan and Craig) so there’s probably a fair degree of nostalgia involved, and it helps that it’s got the best soundtrack in the series (imo) too haha. When I think about it properly though there’s no Bond film that I enjoy as much as YOLT and I think enjoyment is the most important thing for this series. That’s why although Spectre does a lot of things fairly well it’s at the bottom, because that Bond/Blofeld brothers development just frustrates and disappoints me so much that I get no enjoyment out of that film anymore.

Totally with you on YOLT having the best soundtrack, I love it too! It's probably my most enjoyable Bond rewatch too. I find it very fun to quote from too 😊

I still don’t get you guys putting spectre as dead last! Crazy crazy crazy

I'm gonna go with GOD TIER *On Her Majesty's Secret Service *Diamonds Are Forever *The Spy Who Loved Me *Licence To Kill *Goldeneye GREAT TIER *From Russia With Love *Goldfinger *Live And Let Die *Octopussy *The World Is Not Enough *Casino Royale *Skyfall GOOD TIER *Dr No *You Only Live Twice *The Man With The Golden Gun *The Living Daylights *Tomorrow Never Dies *Die Another Day *Quantum Of Solace AVERAGE TIER *Moonraker *A View To A Kill *Spectre BAD TIER *Thunderball *For Your Eyes Only

Yes, I think it's true. Moore was my first. Saw the helicopter scene from FYEE on TV at 10 years old, having no idea what it was. Was totally hooked and still think that intro is the most fun 5 minutes of Bond in film...unless you are Blofeld of course. 😉

I've heard that idea before and I really like it. But, with the SJW people/over sensitive world we live in nowadays, I highly doubt they would do it.

@@TheSpacey52 Really showing how out of touch you are with those movie references.

@@Clay3613 LOL you just made the dumbest comment I'll see all day! XD Sounds like YOU are the one out of touch XD

@@Clay3613 We'll all have some of what you're smoking

@@Clay3613 LOL you fuckin loser

That doesn't make it good. The villian is miserably awful, and his plot is among the most ridiculously convoluted in the series. The cinematography was spectacular, but that is all.

That's not the reason why it's good. The reason it's good is because the movie was nicely scripted.

@@TheGore1021 I loved the part of the script where Silva was climbing the ladder, but he also had a remote explosive planted under the underground train, and just as Bond was coming for him, Silva dropped a train that happened to be passing overhead right in front of Bond! Pretty amazing planning. Really gives the viewer a sense of wonder that few movies are able to accomplish, like: I wonder how any of this makes any sense in the world that this film has established.

@@jon4715 Isn't that most James Bond movies?

@@user-yv4mm6bx3c I don't think so. Most Bond movies, and certainly most successful action movies, establish rules that the plot adheres to in order to create stakes. In Skyfall, things just happen as a matter of convenience without any establishment of possibility. What in Skyfall would lead us to believe that the tube train falling out of the ceiling at just that moment seems at all plausible? Nothing, and that lack of plausibility in Skyfall's established world is what really hurts the movie in hindsight or on closer inspection.

More power to you if you're a fan of it! :D

It's one of the few Bond films I own.

I really like it too, and Die Another Day as well. The only films in the series I would say I do not like are For Your Eyes Only and Spectre.

The filmmaking is objectively awful.

VickSage highly underrated! I love QOS.

Always glad to find other TWINE fans :D Thanks very much for the support

​@@calvindyson it's the least understandably hated Bond movie for me. Besides the Denise Richards meme it's got a much better script than Tomorrow Never Dies for example and the action is top notch

TWINE is not a Bond movie, it's sub-par imitation of 90s action/thrillers with weak villains and weaker motivations.

@@Clay3613 half the films in the series are imitations with incomprehensible villains in them though

Nothing that wrong with Octopussy on paper - but the execution does suffer in comparison.

Wonderful observation 👍

I would respectfully disagree and say that Bourne Identity is the best in the genre.

Dakari Holder he’s a legend! My favourite villain in the series.

everything will be ok That’s great to hear. 👍🏾

Who’s that?

@@sonnyblack0870 The actor’s name is Geoffrey Holder. The character he plays is Baron Samedi.

@@dakariholder02 Oh wow, ya I should’ve picked up on the last name. Can’t tell you how much he scared me as a kid lol, and how many times we quoted him from that movie. Very cool.

Absolutely vordman l rate dr.no and from russia as Sean's best now even more than goldfinger coz sean just looked his absolute coolest in those two.

Great list, Sebastian! Wish I could have the same experience with FRWL that so many fans seem to get. I'm still waiting for it to really 'click' with me. Like how Casino Royale and LTK did lately.

Im preparing to have my annual Bond marathon and finally rank the films based on my opinion.

I honestly think Craig in Spectre was at his worst.

You've voiced the problem with Goldfinger for me. It gets a lot of praise, but I always feel like Bond is dragged along for most of the plot and very little is accomplished due to his agency. And for a character so defined by active competence, it falls a little flat. Meanwhile, there's little love for Dr. No except for the novelty, and people like FRWL but they actually rank highest for me--the films that came before Goldfinger had plots driven by Bond's practical spy work. In Dr. No he goes from old-fashioned detective work in a Murder She Wrote Jamaican murder mystery to blowing up a nuclear reactor powering a jamming device shooting down rockets as the Cold War space race is in full swing, gradually discovering how quaint and insignificant this minor colony of his fallen empire is, basically absorbed into one of the new spacebound superpowers, just as he is brought into Leiter's CIA orbit. And yet every step of the way, he individually and with a couple ragtag allies uses a combination of brain and brawn to overcome overwhelming odds and show the sun has not yet set on the British Empire. The titular character and his base, meanwhile, set the pattern for future Bond villains: arrogant evil geniuses with Mandarin collars/Nehru jackets alienated from a Western Civilization they find decadent and which Bond represents.

Thanks very much for this, Paul! Very kind comments and I appreciate it a lot! I can barely show my face in a lot of Bond circles with the low ranking I have for FRWL haha!

@@calvindyson I've just discovered your channel. Total goldmine. Great stuff!

I agree Paul!!!

@@calvindyson I can see that, buddy.

That's really kind of you to comment! Thanks very much, Ahmed :)

Thanks very much for this! Really appreciate it :) Going to the premiers of Goldfinger and YOLT must have been amazing! Rather jealous! :D

@@calvindyson Very welcome It was awesome. I was a kid but my dad had connections being in banking and it was beyond words.

Good list

Very good list.

Skyfall is objectively better than Dr. No

@@ThunderfallFilms Skyfall was great but it'd be at number 6.

On point !

I love this movie!!!

My mum was in it

Great film, an All Time High.

Same here. Octopussy is top tier Bond for me.

He makes a very good point that it has some of the best chemistry between Bond and his leading lady. The films which succeed in that regard are definitely elevated- it's one of the strengths of the The Living Daylights, for instance. I believe in the romance between Maryam D'Abo and Timothy Dalton, like with Roger Moore and Maude Adams or Eva Green and Daniel Craig.

Definitely agree with the top two!

GoldenEye is a little low. Other than that, nice list

Casino royale at 1... 😬

Huh, I never considered that but yeah wow... There's quite a lot that's similar...

Also another similarity is that there both shit

@@paultownsley5521 Exactly. It seems that these are the things that make an awful Bond film

Bond technically kills Greene.. He leaves him in the middle of the desert with a can of oil.. There‘s no way out for him..

yes!! although live and let die would be my number 1

Nothing beats Goldfinger

But you said Lisence to kill was your second favourite

LTK is also in my top 3. Dalton absolutely nailed it in that movie, he's just so intense.

I used to hate it, now it’s too 5 :)

My favorite of his, no question

Agreed. From Russia with Love is easily top 5 and it's one of the most faithful films when compared to the novels. To rank "The World is not Enough" at # 5 shows this clown is not serious... excuse the oxymoron.

@@zziicckk01 I also like that one a lot. To each their own.

@@Young_BZ 😂😂😂 well, there you go. Cheers, mate!

Though your list shows a lot of thought and consideration... Cheers mate!

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Quantum took place during a writer's strike, so Craig rewrote it mostly himself. That's why it was so short compared to others.

For me Craig was never a Bond i see him more as a better Jason Bourne he had nothing of 007 just brawls. Brosnan Moore Connery Top 3 Bond

@@itachiuchiha7728 Yeah I agree, I love Casino Royale and Spectre but nothing about them feels particularly Bond-y. They feel like more of a soft reboot than a continuation of the series, while Moore and Brosnan both leaned into the lineage of 007.

I think it has something to do with it being filmed with not much a coherent script. Keep in mind, it was made during the writers' strike.

Yeah, I liked Quantum.

Writers strike happened. The action was terrible. The story was terrible. Horrible villain. It's like 90 minutes long. Just a disappointing follow up to the classic Casino Royale. Quantum was the second part of the story and they fucked it up.

Delete the stupid plane chase scene, have him discover the water plot in a sensible way, and a little less hyper-editing 100cuts per minute thing and this movie would be a top 5 bond film.

Olga Kurylenko as Camille is great. Over the years, there been talk of spin off movies with characters from the Bond Films. Camille is the only Bond Girl who has a strong enough character that I would go watch a spin off with her in it. She is the best thing in the film and I like her interaction with Bond.

@eating sugar no papa I can buy that. But they're certainly not bottom-of-the-pile F's.

I can see that, but Quantum is worse than average for me. I consider it to be a truly awful film.

License to kill was the first bond film that I thought was better then goldfinger.

Don’t u mean it has

@@finnjames4134 no, because it’s not really forced anymore, because they sold it well.

Yeah no time to die really sold their relationship unlike in spectre where it felt forced

Haven’t seen NTTD but Teresa Draco, aka Contessa Teresa di Vicenzo, aka Tracy Bond will always be James Bond’s soulmate.

Ty Sir!

Thanks

yessssss in scottish accent

Yes if he hadn't done dr no so well we might not have had 50 years of 007.

I can accept the OHMSS is great but how tf was lazemby good

The Spy Who Loved Me was good. So was Octopussy. I have to watch License To Kill in its entirety to judge it, but I loved The Living Daylights.

@@danielorr352 Basically, by the fact that he was the most physically fit, the most self-confident, and possessed the ability to play the character almost by instinct. (Of course, having Peter Hunt as director was a great help!) Yes, better than Connery or Moore could do. He fit Ian Fleming’s conception of Bond better than anyone else.

@@mercuryrising2424 I hope you’ll watch “Licence To Kill,” and then tell us what you think. It is different, showing a James Bond more human, more down-to-earth, who has to choose his loyalty to his best friend over his loyalty to M and the Secret Service. Timothy Dalton is at his best! Hope you enjoy it as much as I do!

Quantum is underrated. It is terribly photographed, but it has a great and more realistic villain played by a great actor. It's so much better than the soggy and exhaustingly trite Skyfall.