Bond is assigned to protect the daughter of an ex-KGB agent who literally cannot feel pain, and Denise Richards plays a nuclear physicist named Christmas Jones. Yes, that Madonna. That brings us to the current Bond era. Most Bond actors get sort of a soft reboot of the franchise when they come on board, but with Daniel Craig the franchise opted for a total reboot to start the series from scratch.

An excellent origin story that opens with Bond earning his license to kill and ends with Bond fully becoming the character we all know and love, Casino Royale was helmed by GoldenEye director Martin Campbell. Campbell is apparently the go-to guy to reinvent James Bond for a new generation of cinema. Skyfall borrows a few elements from GoldenEye and The Dark Knight to create what is, to date, the most successful James Bond movie of all time. Moneypenny is re-introduced as a field agent, played by Naomie Harris , who works alongside Bond.

With the decades-spanning legal battles now behind them, EON pulls out all their old toys for Craig to play with, revealing that SPECTRE was secretly behind all the evil deeds of the previous three films. Bond also faces troubling revelations about his relationship to Blofeld, which makes their rivalry all the more personal. Craig's well-publicized final turn in the role of Bond , No Time to Die pits his against Rami Malek 's villainous Safin, a former enemy of Spectre who winds up becoming an enemy of Bond and a big bad in his own right.

As do a lot of nanobots. If you prefer to tackle the Bond franchise in theatrical order, here are all 25 films by order of release date. But, realistically, these 25 films have you covered. Directed By: Irvin Kershner. Critics Consensus: Absurd even by Bond standards, A View to a Kill is weighted down by campy jokes and a noticeable lack of energy. Critics Consensus: Newcomer Timothy Dalton plays James Bond with more seriousness than preceding installments, and the result is exciting and colorful but occasionally humorless.

Critics Consensus: License to Kill is darker than many of the other Bond entries, with Timothy Dalton playing the character with intensity, but it still has some solid chases and fight scenes.

Critics Consensus: The first and best Pierce Brosnan Bond film, GoldenEye brings the series into a more modern context, and the result is a entry that's high-tech, action-packed, and urbane. Directed By: Martin Campbell. Critics Consensus: A competent, if sometimes by-the-numbers entry to the franchise, Tomorrow Never Dies may not boast the most original plot but its action sequences are genuinely thrilling.

Directed By: Roger Spottiswoode. Critics Consensus: Plagued by mediocre writing, uneven acting, and a fairly by-the-numbers plot, The World Is Not Enough is partially saved by some entertaining and truly Bond-worthy action sequences.

Directed By: Michael Apted. Critics Consensus: Its action may be bit too over-the-top for some, but Die Another Day is lavishly crafted and succeeds in evoking classic Bond themes from the franchise's earlier installments. Directed By: Lee Tamahori. Critics Consensus: Casino Royale disposes of the silliness and gadgetry that plagued recent James Bond outings, and Daniel Craig delivers what fans and critics have been waiting for: a caustic, haunted, intense reinvention of Critics Consensus: Brutal and breathless, Quantum Of Solace delivers tender emotions along with frenetic action, but coming on the heels of Casino Royale , it's still a bit of a disappointment.

Directed By: Marc Forster. Critics Consensus: Sam Mendes brings Bond surging back with a smart, sexy, riveting action thriller that qualifies as one of the best films to date. Directed By: Sam Mendes. Critics Consensus: Spectre nudges Daniel Craig's rebooted Bond closer to the glorious, action-driven spectacle of earlier entries, although it's admittedly reliant on established formula. Critics Consensus: It isn't the sleekest or most daring adventure, but No Time to Die concludes Daniel Craig's franchise tenure in satisfying style.

A spacecraft is stolen and lands in the Sea of Japan, and James Bond heads there to investigate. Sean Connery retires from the franchise at this point. So, an Australian actor, George Lazenby, steps in to take over the role for a single film. We see him hunt for Blofeld. He also falls in love with and - for the first and only time - marries a Bond girl, Contessa Tracy di Vicenzo.

This movie is thought to follow Ian Fleming's novel plot the most, and it's also more of an drama than any of the other films in the franchise. Sean Connery briefly returns to foil a diamond-smuggling ring. He travels all over the world, before making it to the Whyte House casino in Las Vegas, where he learns Blofeld is behind the diamond-smuggling operation.

Blofled wants to use a laser-armed satellite to destroy all the nuclear weapons in the US, Soviet Union, and China, and thus force the countries into a bidding war. This is British actor Roger Moore's first film as Bond. We see him try to stop Mr. Big, a drug lord who has a plan to monopolise heroin by giving away two tons of it for free, all in an effort to push other dealers out of business. This is also the first film to feature a black woman as a Bond girl, with Rosie Carver played by Gloria Hendry.

Bond is relieved from duty after a golden bullet with "" etched on it is received by MI6. The bullet is believed to be from the famed assassin Francisco Scaramanga, who uses a golden gun to kill his targets. Bond sets off to find Scaramanga and tracks down the location of a small device, called the Solex Agitator, which can harness the power of the Sun.

The two of them work together to identify the person behind the thefts: Karl Stromberg, a shipping tycoon and scientist, who has a plan to destroy both New York and Moscow in order to trigger a nuclear war that will allow him to create his own civilization. Following the hijacking of the Moonraker space shuttle, Bond must find the location of the stolen ship.

He learns that Hugo Drax, the owner of the company producing the space shuttles, is behind it all, and Drax is working on a plan to wipe out a large portion of the human race with a deadly nerve gas. Eventually, Bond must venture to space to defeat Drax on his space station. When the archaeologist is murdered, Bond not only has to find the launch device, but also figure out who killed Havelock and why. Dun, dun, dun, duuuun Bond investigates the murder of Agent , who was killed in East Berlin while carrying a fake Faberge egg.

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. The characters became a little more over the top, as did the stories. Live And Let Die has one of the most bizarre stories as the producers attempted to cash in on the Blaxploitation genre that was popular at the time.

Although Yaphet Kotto is excellent in the two roles he plays as the villains, the whole thing is rather bizarre. Jane Seymour is one of the best to every play a Bond Girl though, as Solitaire. He is played by the great Christopher Lee and his main henchman was the iconic Nick Nack, played by the legendary Herve Villechaize.

So yeah, there are definitely enough familiar elements in this movie. It also happens to feature an amazing theme by Carly Simon. Moonraker has the dubious distinction of consistently being at or near the bottom of the list when the James Bond movies are ranked.

The truth behind it may explain some of the problems. The plot is ridiculous. That was a terrible idea, but it was also a rushed one, which made it worse. Instead, the producers changed gears on the heels of the massive success of Star Wars in and put super-spy James Bond an astronaut in space.

It did mark the return of Richard Kiel as Jaws though, and Moonraker also features the most ridiculous Bond Girl name of the entire series — Dr. Holly Goodhead, played by Lois Chiles. James Bond entered his third decade on the screen with For Your Eyes Only , and while it still was a trademark Roger Moore-era movie, with humor and over-the-top moments, it was a return to good ideas and good movie-making after the disaster that was Moonraker.

Shortly after that, James finds himself on a helicopter be remotely controlled by none other than his old nemesis, Ernst Blofeld, who is in a wheelchair and whom Bond eventually deposits down a smokestack as the opening credits role. Yep, this one is usually most famous for its name. Somehow, it got past the censors and ended up with a PG rating. Octopussy won the box office race and Never Say Never Again was sort of ignored by most Bond fans other than as a curiosity.