If he's here, who's running hell?

The clown show, the egg hunt, the strange pun title, yet at times a fairly entertaining outing by 007. Yes nukes are involved and it does come down to the wire, but the remainder of the movie is given littler urgency. As an example, Bond shows up in a hot air balloon with Q at the end and they make jokes to eachother. There are multiple double 0 agents dressed up as clowns durning the runtime. There are many reasons this film shouldn't work and by most accounts it doesn't. Tied with Man With the Golden Gun for the second lowest RT critic score. Only 4 have a lower RT audience score but again I enjoy it. It's kind of the opposite of Diamonds are Forever in terms of how much it entertained me. John Glen directed 5 Bonds, this is probably not the worst, but not in his top 2 for sure. I think the Dalton ones and Spy are better overall but it's a step over View. Maud Adams second outing after Golden Gun but playing a different character. Earned $27M more than Never Say Nev...

Luckily the next four Roger Moore Bonds get much better after a strange intro in Live and Let Die and whatever this movie is. Second worst RT score so far behind A View to Kill. I have this as the worst Bond at the moment. It does have a better IMDB score than everything prior on this list. One of the lowest grossing movies, second lowest next to View that isn't a Dalton or Lazenby Bond. The idea of a golden gun is cool, but that's where it ends. The invisible laser beam does nothing. All four of the Guy Hamilton directed movies arguably get worse with each outing. (Goldfinger, Diamonds, Live, and this). Christopher Lee is a treasure and deserved better than the tan, fake nippled assassin (even though he enjoyed the role), very similiar to Walken. So it's basically Scaramanga (Lee) wants to kill Bond, invites James to his island, James comes, James kills Scaramanga, shrug emoji. There is a fun house hall of mirriors shoot out that happens with a wax Moore, which is the be...

Filmed in the driest desert in the world and that's how the whole movie sort of feels. Easily the worst of the Daniel Craig movies. I think the writer's strike had a big effect on the writing of the movie as they didn't have it finished going into production. It picks up right where Casino leaves off with a car chase, which is probably the best action scene in the movie. The other memorable scene is the end with a building on fire in the desert, but Bond never really seems in danger even diving out of a plane with no chute. The spy investigation and the Opera scene is my favorite part of the movie. The whole movie also kind of feels like one long revenge scene, but it never really gets its footing. The plane chase and dive are pretty sweet. The gun barrel scene happens at the end of the movie. It was a rushed post production, but they did start working on it before Casino had gotten started. The title isn't great, Bond is looking for his Quantum and it's also the ...

Highest grossing Bond movie at it's time (until Die Another Day). Was nominated for 12 awards. The only I've ever watched in the theater. So much doesn't work for me though. Oil pipeline macguffin, yawn. It's certainly not as interesting as any kind of generic world ending bomb, maybe more interesting than a newsmedia company (Tomorrow). A bad guy that can't feel pain, sounds good in theory, do they do anything interesting with it.. no. It actually might be Judi Dench's best bond movie, she certainly is given the most to do that isn't named Skyfall. I dislike everything about Sophie Marceau's character. There is like a 30 minute scene where Bond is getting choked for the entirety but there are no repercussions. Desmond Llewelyn's last outing as Q who actually died in a car crash after the movie came out. Denise Richards is gorgeous, but did win a Razzie for this role. I cringe at all the Christmas jokes. Replacing these women with Maria Grazia Cuci...

The one non-Eon movie on this list. Script was taken from the original Thunderball screenplay. Connery's age doesn't bother me quite like Moore's age in View although Connery was younger here than Moore was in Octopussy which came out in the same year. Kim Basinger is lovely here as one of the Bond girls. Directed by post Empire Strikes Back's Irvin Kershner. Basinger and Kershner did not reportedly get along. Max von Sydow plays Bloefeld but most of his scenes were cut. Mr. Bean has more lines than usual here in his first role. Steven Seagal was the movie's martial arts instructor and broke Connery's wrist. Was going to be titled 'James Bond of the Secret Service'. It feels like the most stand alone movie of any, but you do have Connery returning after 12 years. Nothing too silly or gimicky happening besides the wink and the retirement jokes. I do think being the bottom half the 75% level is about where it belongs rank-wise. Movie ...

John Glen directed 5 different Bond movies. A View to Kill was the middle one and easily his worst. Obviously the last Moore movie and the oldest Bond at 57. Moore's least favorite as well (too old, too violent, not a Grace Jones fan). It's the last Louis Maxwell's Moneypenny outing as well. I liked it much better the first time I watched it, putting it at #9, but something about knowing he was 57 took away from the movie. Lowest rated Rotten Tomato movie so far. The Walken/Grace Jones combination is fine, typical brains/brawn combination but nothing special either. The Bond girl Tanya Roberts bugged me and I had to look up where I had saw her before, which is the neighbor mom in That 70s Show. I think the middle of the movie works well as Bond (and the fun character Tibbett) infiltrates the Max Zorin Horse Ranch. The computer chip, silicon valley macguffin isn't bad, but it's closer to being bad than good. I do like the Golden Gate Bridge appearance. The underwat...

It's a Golden Eye hangover. I'm a big Jonathan Pryce fan after Pirates, Game of Thrones, GI-Joe, but as a villain he must be one of the least threatening if not thee least imposing big bad. Maybe because he is the only one that has a spouse, even though he kills her. The plot doesn't make sense in this day in age of 2024 but even at the time, newspapers as the macguffin just seems poor at best. Starting WW3 is pretty common as are stealth ships but to try and control the situation after that makes almost zero sense. Teri Hatcher seems like a decent Bond girl despite being pregnant and almost having nothing to do here. She makes up for whatever lack of chemistry was happening between Michelle Yeoh and Brosnan. The Halo jump is awesome, but then all the wind (no pun) gets taken out of it when Yeoh just shows up underwater. I do really like the remote controlled car and the action scenes like the motorcycle chase are actually quite entertaining. The train man Vincent Schiave...