No Time to Die

#21 in my Ranking of the James Bond Franchise. Well, that was not very good. This is a movie that feels like it was written by committee with anything resembling a central idea having been diluted to nothing. I could be okay with that if the film, Cary Fukunaga's No Time to Die, Daniel Craig's last…

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Spectre

#9 in my Ranking of the James Bond Franchise. How do you follow up one of the best Bond films that deconstructed the formula completely? Make a much more straight forward Bond adventure, I guess. I like what’s here. Bond continues his personal journey, the theme expands to look at the past vs future idea…

Skyfall

#2 in my Ranking of the James Bond Franchise. I hadn’t seen Quantum of Solace since it was in theaters, and so I was actually rather shocked to discover that Skyfall is almost a reboot of the Craig Bond films. It feels like a least a decade has passed, maybe even two, since the last…

Quantum of Solace

#16 in my Ranking of the James Bond Franchise. Apparently, the most interesting parts of this movie’s story were come up with on set and the least interesting parts were the actual script. Paul Haggis delivered the film’s final draft two hours before the writers’ strike began and the production didn’t wait for it to…

Casino Royale (2006)

#6 in my Ranking of the James Bond Franchise. I don’t think the Bond franchise needed a reboot after Licence to Kill with Goldeneye, but it definitely needed one after Die Another Day with Casino Royale. The franchise had devolved into silly setups with mishmashed storytelling while contrasting horribly with the central take on the…