TAKE ONE writers pick the best and worst of the Bond films, in this Bond film special featuring films about Bond, James Bond.

Dr. No (1962)
For me, the best one. Connery playing it with only a slight hint of irony, dispatching bad guys with a cold efficiency. It feels fresh and lacking in the self-referential guff the series would succumb to. – Jim Ross

From Russia With Love (1963)
Probably the most faithful Bond adaptation, its potent mixture of cold war thrills and atmospheric locations makes it the highpoint of the Connery era. – Gavin Midgley

On Her Majesty’s Secret Service (1969)
I like my Bonds like I like my politicians – sensible, steady, plain. Plus it’s the only film to buck the tediousness of the formula: his wife dies and you see a tiny bit of why Bond is such a smug, wise-cracking, psychopathic, alcoholic womaniser. – Steve Williams

Diamonds Are Forever (1971)
Sean Canary, Charles “Rocky Horror” Gray and most of all, Crispin Glover’s daddy. It’s a shame they had to abandon some of the finale ideas, though – salt mine, Chinese junks, leaping frogmen with limpet mines. – Rosy Hunt

The Spy Who Loved Me (1977)
The child in me can’t help but love this classic Roger Moore entry, which has all the epic action, gadgets, cars, bad guys and underwater bases you could possibly want. – Gavin Midgley

Moonraker (1979)
Sooo not a Bond fan. Never enjoyed (for the first time in my life) a man with an intense gaze and a large gun … I did, however, enjoy the character of Jaws, the wily minx! – Mark Bullock

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Octopussy (1983)
My favourite is the first one I saw at the cinema: the six-foot silhouette of a knocker drifted across my enchanted gaze during the title sequence. I wish I could say that it was the George MacDonald Fraser (Flashman) script or the impossibly languid Rita Coolidge theme that made such an impression, but no. Six foot knocker. That kind of thing changes a young man’s life forever. – Nick Pettigrew

Never Say Never Again (1983)
The best thing about NEVER SAY NEVER AGAIN is that it launched Rowan Atkinson’s big screen career. The worst thing about it is that it probably contributed to his idea to make JOHNNY ENGLISH. – Harry Hunt

Licence to Kill (1989)
Drearily slick, unpleasantly entertaining, relentlessly nasty LICENCE TO KILL failed the loyal Bond cinema audience not so much by being a sloppy production by a tired crew, although it did do that, but more by being far, far too much like the books than anyone with a giant bucket of popcorn in hand could possibly need, want or tolerate. – Keith Braithwaite

Goldeneye (1995)
Best first person shooter – and best multiplayer – ever. I don’t want to hear about the PS3 remake. I seriously doubt it has DK mode. – Rosy Hunt

The World Is Not Enough (1999)
Pierce Brosnan, the only actor able to play the role ‘Remington Steele’ and think to himself ‘Thank god my character has a less ridiculous-sounding name than me’. Invisible cars, ‘I thought Christmas only came once a year’ and a set of Bond themes that sound like the inside of a sales rep’s car. James Bond? James fuck right off, more like. – Nick Pettigrew

Die Another Day (2002)
Awful. Just terrible. This was the point where the series started to look more like a parody, in some ways, than Austin Powers did. For evidence see the race-car-then-windsurfing-cum-reverse-parachute-away-from-big-sun-ray-laser-death sequence. Makes your eyes burn. – Jim Ross

Casino Royale (2006)
Easily one of the greatest of all Bond films: ditching the gadgets and the winks, director Martin Campbell delivers a proper spy thriller with a pitch-perfect performance from Daniel Craig. – Gavin Midgley

Quantum of Solace (2008)
Bond sunbathes and does a wheely to protect Bolivia’s water supply. QUANTUM is my favourite: 5 cans of engine oil out of 6. – Harry Hunt

A rather dull follow up to an exhilarating reboot. “Oh noes! Not the groundwater!” Yawn. The title makes no sense and this went too far down the Bourne-retooling-back-to-basics route. –  Jim Ross

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