We kick off the series with James Bond taking on a nefarious Asian crime boss on a beautiful tropical island, setting in stone so many tropes that the series would perpetuate throughout the years.
When SPECTRE starts stealing space ships out of the sky, all to provoke World War III, Bond is forced to intervene in an adventure that is about as awkward and racist as anything in the series yet.
Bond gets paried up with a Russian agent to find two missing submarines in this luke-waarm rehash of the basic story of On Her Majesty's Secret Service, just without any of the spark.
And now Bond is going into space because every film apparently had to be a Star War in this dreadful sci-fi "epic" that jumps all the sharks it can, all at once.
And now we have a new Bond, played by Timothy Dalton, taking on Soviet smugglers, while the audience tries to decide if this is the same Bond or a new guy taking over the codename.
It's a tale of several Bonds as SMERSH it out for cash, power, and blood and they're desperate to make sure Bond doesn't get in the way this time. Sadly, the film is hardly up to its high concept ideas.
The first (unofficial) game to feature the legendary secret agent does a good job of setting up a series of puzzles but a bad job at getting across the ambiance.
A parody of the James Bond series, this first film sets up our new 1960s British agent as a fish-out-of-water as he's pulled out of time to battle his old nemesis in the 1990s.
Austin is back for a third (and so far final) time, but the adventure is starting to feel all too familiar, and very, very shallow indeed.
Further Discussion
Continuing the James Bond Film Franchise: With Eon Productions looking for the next James Bond, we discuss what the series needs to do to move past the Daniel Craig era.