Bond Actors
1. Pierce Brosnan
2. Sean Connery
3. George Lazenby
4. Roger Moore
5. Timothy Dalton

Connery
Dr. No

From Russia With Love

Goldfinger

Thunderball

You Only Live Twice

Diamonds Are Forever

Lazenby
On Her Majesty's Secret Service

Moore
Live and Let Die

The Man With The Golden Gun

The Spy Who Loved Me

Moonraker

For Your Eyes Only

Octopussy

A View To Kill

Dalton
The Living Daylights

License to Kill

Brosnan
Goldeneye

Tomorrow Never Dies

The World Is Not Enough

Die Another Day

Bond. James Bond.

Die Another Day
Bond Girls: Jinx (Halle Berry), Miranda Frost (Rosamund Pike)
Villains: Zao (Rick Yune), Gustav Graves (Toby Stephens)
Brosnan's 4th Bond film breaks a few conventions and succeeds, big time! There is major excitement and drama in this film that has been lacking from the more formulaic earlier Brosnans. Highly Recommended Some of the action scenes are a bit overdone, particularly the ice castle bits, but I suppose some folks who dig special effects will like them. Halle Berry is a good Bond girl/American spy, though her character could have used another scene or two to develop, not that she isn't nicely developed naturally, because clearly she is, and it's on display, but that's not what I'm referring to.

Both villains are well-developed and come off well -- very very nice job of that. Yune's character, in particular, is a great one for a Bond film!!

Tomorrow Never Dies
Bond Girls: Wai-Lin (Michelle Yeoh), Paris Carver (Teri Hatcher)
Villain: Elliot Carver (Jonathan Pryce)
Brosnan's 2nd Bond film is among his best three or four. Look, this film isn't bad, in fact it's pretty cool, but . . . the characters lack something. Hatcher is all looks (eh) and no action, Michelle Yeoh I like but is pretty much just action (in the movie). Elliot Carver -- media mogul -- is not the villain I'd like him to be. Just Okay Characters fall short of the Bond standard but the film has plenty of great action, intrigue, and style.

On Her Majesty's Secret Service
Bond Girls: Tracy Draco (Diana Rigg)
Villain: Ernst Stavro Blofeld (Telly Savales)
George Lazenby's only go at Bond. Recommended This is much more of a movie and less of a Bond film than, say, the Pierce Brosnan films. Unfortunately, Lazenby is burdened with several extraneous throwaway lines highlighting his refined palette, et cetera. (For example, he tastes caviar and pinpoints where in the Caspian it came from. Whoopee.) For the rest, it's a good movie, with plenty of car chases and ski chases and gun fighting and lovemaking (Diana Rigg was quite a looker back in the day), but perhaps not enough gadgetry. Moneypenny gets a couple good lines.

Moonraker
Bond Girls: Dr. Holly Goodhead (Lois Chiles), Corinne Dufour (Corinne Clery), & Manuela (Emily Bolton)
Villain: Hugo Drax (Michael Lonsdale) & Jaws (Richard Kiel)
Roger Moore: the Al Gore of James Bonds. Moonraker is Exhibit A why Roger Moore didn't make anyone forget Sean Connery: he had no personality, much less a James Bond persona. The outrageous plot and unique sequences make this a must-see, though the quality could be better. Recommended There's a reason half the Austin Power jokes come from this movie. Things pick up after the stumbling first twenty minutes, and we get a cable car scene, a trombone-playing dog, Moore's hat collection, and the very pretty Manuela. The other two Bond girls were underwhelming: Corinne Dufour wasn't given a real chance and Dr. Goodhead was a bit dry for my taste, as opposed to alluring.

The Spy Who Loved Me
Bond Girls: Major Anya Amasova: Agent Triple X (Barbara Bach)
Villain: Ocean-lover Carl Stromberg (Curt Jurgens) & Jaws (Richard Kiel)
Came out in 1977 and features fun, funky background music, though the theme song itself is a bit odd, not bad but less than dynamic. Okay Barbara Bach was hot, the very epitome of the voluptuous Russkie spy. If ever there was a reason to betray your country, Anya Amasova was it!

The Spy Who Loved Me has a great deal of tongue-in-cheek corniness and overly melodramatic shots. I think I detected some subtle criticism of the Siberian gulags, which would be welcome from a Commie-loving movie industry, not that there's anything wrong with that.

Dr. No
Bond Girls: Honey Ryder (Ursula Andress), Sylvia (Eunice Gayson)
Villain: Dr. No (Joseph Wiseman)
"That's a Smith & Wesson -- and you've had your six." Dr. No has the good fortune of being the first Bond movie and thus doesn't have to contend with the contemporary stuggle to "come up with something new". Everything about Bond is new in this one, and they're able to get a lot of mileage out of a lot of standard spy tricks. And because everything's new, it's also refreshingly low-tech compared to today's Brosnan films. It's also the highest any Bond has ever warn his pants. Hey, I hope you like spiders . . .

Original Bond girls Honey Ryder (Ursula Andress was the original Bo Derek, woo baby!) and Eunice Gayson with some crazy eyebrow action do a fine job, making this a Must-See!