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James Bond is one of the most successful movie franchises ever. There have been 27 James Bond movies since 1962’s Dr. No. Seven actors have played James Bond Sean Connery (7 times), Roger Moore (7 times), Pierce Brosnan (4 times), Timothy Dalton (2 times), Daniel Craig (5 times), George Lazenby and David Niven one time.
Sean Connery was my father and my uncle’s Bond. When I was growing up, Roger Moore was my Bond. My 27 year old son had Pierce Brosnan. My nineteen year old daughter is in love with her Bond… Daniel Craig. I have no doubt when my 7 year old is older, she will have her very own Bond.
This page will rank 26 James Bond movies from Best to Worst in seven different sortable columns of information. The Sean Connery film Never Say Never Again and the David Niven comedy Casino Royale have been included in the rankings.
James Bond Movies Ranked In Chronological Order With Ultimate Movie Rankings Score (1 to 5 UMR Tickets) *Best combo of box office, reviews and awards.
James Bond Movies Can Be Ranked 6 Ways In This Table
The really cool thing about this table is that it is “user-sortable”. Rank the movies anyway you want.
- Sort James Bond movies by who played James Bond
- Sort James Bond movies by adjusted domestic box office grosses using current movie ticket cost (in millions)
- Sort James Bond movies by adjusted worldwide box office grosses using current movie ticket cost (in millions)
- Sort James Bond movies how they were received by critics and audiences. 60% rating or higher should indicate a good movie.
- Sort by how many Oscar® nominations and how many Oscar® wins each James Bond movie received.
- Sort James Bond movies by Ultimate Movie Rankings (UMR) Score. UMR Score puts box office, reviews and awards into a mathematical equation and gives each movie a score.
- Use the search and sort buttons to make this table very interactive…for example…you just want to see the Sean Connery Bond movies…..just type in Sean in the search box and up they pop.
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Hi Bruce ! Live and Let Die is probably one of the best Bond movie with Roger Moore ; for this movie it seems that you didn’t have a worldwide gross ; according to Wikipedia and The Numbers it made 126 400 000 in foreign gross and 161 800 000 worldwide (unadjusted) so i think you can fix it easily … 😉
The main title by McCartney is also one of the top Bond songs !
Hey Max….not sure why it was not registering the worldwide number…..did some tweaking and it now shows a worldwide gross. I thought I had fixed it before….but apparently it did not “stick”….hope it does this time. Thanks for the headsup.
1 STEVE I have mentioned that after Timothy Dalton’s Bond I stopped watching the series because of my boredom with what I saw as the repetitiveness of it so I have never seen any of the Daniel Craig outings in the franchise.
2 However I was very impressed with the posters for the 007 films in your video. Other posters that I liked in the presentation were Enduring Love, Renaissance and Munich.
3 The stills that most pleased me were those from Quantum of Solace, Layer Cake, Spectre and particularly the rooftop one from Skyfall. Overall I feel this video warranted a 93% rating.
4 Your average for the 4 Craig Bond movies is 7.72% and Bruce’s critic/audience average for the 4 is as you will see above close at 76.43%
Hey Bob….good to see our Craig Bond movies are so closer rated. As for Enduring Love…I saw that movie years ago…it is a strange but memorable movie. Thanks for the feedback.
HI BRUCE AND WELCOME BACK
1 I was glad that your average rating was close to Steve’s for the 4 Daniel Craig Bond movies as not having seen any of that 4 myself I couldn’t very well have declared that one of you was wrong if you two had been far apart!
2 Your Annual reviews for all of the years in the 1940s have again been very helpful to me with an exercise I’m doing for my own amusement and I’m sure you won’t mind my mentioning two matters requiring your attention when you get the time-
(1) Every year’s page in that decade has been updated except 1942 though using relevant updated figures elsewhere in your pages I think I was able to make a good ‘educated guess’ at what the 1942 updates will ultimately be.
(2) Your 1945 annual review page is as you know not listed in your main index but whilst you helpfully gave me a link for the 1945 page on your 1970s decade page other interested persons would most likely not think to look among the comments there.
3 Anyway appreciate the assistance your comprehensive annual review pages were to me.
Hey Bob…..good to be back. 1945 now has a link on the main site index page. And 1942 was updated last night…..and it was a good update….26 more movies added….now up to 168 movies (which I think is pretty impressive) and 99 worldwide box office grosses or 59% of all the movies. (which I think is good but less impressive that the first %). 🙂
HI BRUCE
Keep the production line going as it’s “all grist that comes to my mill” in the realm of stats!
Hey Bob….one of the benefits of doing the decade pages is I have almost done complete careers on non UMR stars like Christie, Segal, Kline, Hurt, Bancroft and others.
William Hurt, Red Skelton and the 1990s are coming soon.
Hi Bob, thanks for checking out my Daniel Craig video, always appreciated. Glad you enjoyed the pictorial aspects of the vid.
I take it you do watch the occasional modern movie, or are you trapped in the past with Laddie, Randy and Joanie? 😉
I wish Daniel Craig would stop faffing around and make one more Bond movie, they’ve offered him a kings ransom to make another one and he keeps sticking two fingers up at them, whats wrong with this guy?
Does he really believe that people would be lining up round the block to see him any sort of film? Even Sean struggled to get people interested in his non-Bondian films back in the 70s and early 80s. Than again Craig has so much money in the bank he doesn’t have to make any more films.
Skyfall is the only film in his filmography with a 10 out of 10 score from a number of sources, and I would guess that it’s the closest the Bond series has ever got to a Best Picture Oscar nomination, it will never get that close again. The critics went gaga over it. I personally prefer Casino Royale.
HI STEVE
1 No I’m not stuck in the past with Randy, Laddie and Joanie. It’s just that for me the Bond puns, gadgets explosions and plot lines became tiresome and the Bond girls whilst very attractive were at times so mundane that I preferred instead heroines of more substance such as Julia Roberts’ Erin Brockavich. . Indeed I now regard the Bond series as perhaps a relic of the Cold War and maybe James should ideally have left the stage when the Berlin Wall fell.
2 Here are some other modern films that I have greatly enjoyed: Rampart [2011]The Ides of March [2011]The Place Beyond the Pines [2012]Eye in the Sky [2015] and Sir Maurice’s Youth[2015]
But… but… Bob there aren’t any car chases, explosions and throwaway quips in those modern films you’ve listed, how do you manage to stay awake? 😉
Actually I enjoyed Eye in the Sky, and I think it was Alan Rickman’s last film? There is a similar film you might like called – Good Kill – starring Ethan Hawke. Those two would make an interesting double bill.
In GoldenEye (1995), M berates Bond, she tells him he’s a “relic of the cold war” and a “sexist, misogynist dinosaur”. 🙂
The timelines for Bond do get confusing when the same M (played by Judi Dench) scolds a younger, more brutal and less experienced 007 in Casino Royale (2006), who obviously isn’t a relic of the cold war.
Hey Steve you are not giving Sir Caine enough credit…..watching him conduct an imaginary concert in the woods is so much better than watching Spider-man in an epic battle with fill in the blank villain…,when you know if it is at the beginning of the movie the villain will win and if it is at the end of the movie Spidey will win.
Hey Bob. Good to know some current movies break through the classic movies. I of course enjoyed Youth as well. Not much of a fan on Rampart. Ides of March starred Clooney but I still thought it was good.
As for Bond I think he will be here forever. But I see your point about him being a great connection to the Cold War.
Hey Steve good points about Daniel Craig. In the end I think we will be back for a 5th one……though I am sure he won’t be as pretty if stays with his claim….of putting glass in his eyes if he played Bond again….actually I do not remember the exact Bond quote he came out with when Spectre was coming out. Good videos.
STEVE
1 I loved the early Bond movies but grew tired of them and after the double Timothy Dalton Bond outing I actually stopped watching the series and have seen just one of Pierce’s 4 Bond outings and that was by accident when I was travelling by air and I cannot remember which one it was. Bruce tells us that the 4 Brosnan movies grossed an inflation adjusted total of $2.5 billion worldwide Generally I find Brosnan a relaxing actor to watch and in fact thought his 1999 Thomas Crown Affair more entertaining than the perhaps more famous 1968 McQueen version, though Bruce’s audience/critic panel do not share my view. I also like Brosnan in The Ghost Writer in which Pierce’s character Prime Minister Adam Lang was apparently based on Tony Blair.
2 Quite a range of super posters with my personal favourites being Lawnmower Man, A long Way Down, Grey Owl, November Man, the really stunning ones for No Escape, and The 4th Protocol which could have been alternatively titled Harry Palmer meets James Bond. The stills that most pleased me were (1) from Die Another Day the fencing one and the sexy pin-up of Halle Berry (2) the ‘hammy’ one of Brosnan with Jack N in Mars Attacks (3) with Robin Williams in Mrs Doubtfire – had forgotten Pierce was in that one.
3 Your average for the 4 Brosnan 007s is a so-so 68.7% against an average of 62.5 % from Grinch Cogerson. Until I saw your video I hadn’t quite realised that Pierce has had such a prolific career in leading star-billed roles away from Bond. Therefore the informative value for me of the presentation combined with the exceptional high quality of the artwork throughout dictates a 96% rating I should add that I admired Pierce’s generous opening tribute to Sir Sean. Keep the production line going – 4 Bonds down 2 to go!
Hi Bob, thanks for the review, generous rating, observation and comparison, always appreciated. Glad you liked the pictorial content.
Surprised you lost interest in the Bond series after the two Dalton Bonds, I thought they were pretty good, especially The Living Daylights.
El Supremo has Goldeneye and Tomorrow Never Dies as the top 2 Brosnan Bonds, which matches my rankings, but I gave the latter a higher score. Maybe Bruce can add Brosnan to his request list, mostly recent movies shouldn’t be much of a problem finding the grosses.
One more Bond actor to go in this video series and it isn’t George Lazenby. George made just one Bond movie which is highly rated by Bond fans and critics and has appeared in little else of consequence, He starred in a few kung fu movies and I saw one of them at the cinema – The Man from Hong Kong – which was filmed in Australia and starred HK martial arts superstar Wang Yu.
FWIW On Her Majesty’s Secret Service has an average score of 7.85 from my sources which would place it at no.7 on my Bond movie chart. There are 3 Connery’s, a Moore and 2 Craig’s listed higher than OHMSS.
Good reviews and talk on James Bond, Sean Connery and all the other Bonds.
STEVE 1 When I first saw Timothy Dalton it was as Heathcliff in the 1970 remake of Wuthering Heights in which Anna Calder-Marshall was his Cathy. He was only 24 and of course Larry was a hard act to follow but I enjoyed the movie nevertheless though you do not rate it over highly. Timothy’s 007 interpretation was that of a more serious Bond and although some critics thought it could have done with more humour others praised it. Dalton’s two Bond films did well enough at the box office and indeed Bruce’s comprehensive Bond stats page shows them earning a combined nearly three quarter of a billion inflation adjusted dollars worldwide
2 However Bruce’s domestic grosses column also highlights that the second of the two Licence to Kill (1989) did not do too well in the US and observers have concluded that it was that consideration that ended the Bond phase of Timothy’s career. Ironically Timothy’s first 007 outing in The Living Daylights (1987) had been praised for being the 4th highest grossing Bond up to then before inflation adjustment. However Bruce’s inflation adjusted chart unfortunately has Tim’s two movies in the very last positions in his domestic column and they fare just marginally better in his worldwide column
3 What I know you regard at times as mundane box office matters are of course a separate consideration from the art quality of posters and in that respect if you were under contract you would be in no danger of it being terminated as poor Timothy’s was. Excellent posters were those for Beautician and the Beast, The Informant, the corker for Earthsea, and The King’s W***e whose graphics do not contradict the title! I loved the stills from Flash Gordon and Bond, the one with the red nose had me chuckling though probably I most admired the photo of Tim as the handsome young Heathcliff. Your average for the two Bond films was a respectable 74% approx. whilst the Work Horse always a law onto himself gave a lowly 65.5% average. 94.5% was my rating of the video. Good stuff in this continuing Bond theme
Hi Bob, thanks for reviewing and rating my Timothy Dalton video, much appreciated!
Glad you liked the posters and stills.
Bruce’s James Bond page has all the facts and figures you’d want for the Bond movies. I provide the images (and alternative scores) and he dishes out the stats. Nice eh.
I like Dalton. I like his two Bond movies. I think they’re underrated. If he had been given the opportunity to make a couple more he would have grown more relaxed in the role and had more fun with it. No question he’s a good actor.
I liked his character in The Rocketeer, which was slyly based on Errol Flynn and the absurd rumours he was a Nazi spy.
The only film in his filmography to get the full 10 out of 10 score, and from a number of my sources, was The Lion in Winter. 007 had no chance of toppling O’Toole’s Henry II.
We’ve had Scots, Australian, English and Welsh. The Irish Bond is up next! 🙂
Really like seeing all the Bond movies ? lined up like this. Connery will always be the best Bond, but since we are all grieving Roger Moore’s passing I willl admit I liked his Bond too.