We consulted review aggregator site Rotten Tomatoes, which ranked every Bond film, and then focused on the bottom of the list to find the movies that got the most savage pans. Read on to discover which James Bond movies critics hated the most. READ THIS NEXT: The Worst Movie Sequel of All Time, According to Critics. Rotten Tomatoes score: 65 percent “The comic book plot meanders through a series of hardware production numbers,” Variety writes. Rotten Tomatoes score: 64 percent “Although it’s not the most crushing disappointment of all time—finding you have won the lottery but lost the ticket is probably more crushing, I imagine—it is still a crushing disappointment,” writes Deborah Ross for The Spectator. READ THIS NEXT: The Worst Movie of 2021, According to Critics. Rotten Tomatoes score: 64 percent “Diamonds Are Forever doesn’t carry the same quality or flair as its many predecessors,” writes Variety. Rotten Tomatoes score: 63 percentae0fcc31ae342fd3a1346ebb1f342fcb “By the time Spectre reaches its conclusion, the backstory has become so fraught, the motives so unclear, and the layers of scheming by the villains so convoluted that it’s exhausting,” writes Isaac Chotiner for Slate. Rotten Tomatoes score: 60 percent “Bond meets Star Wars in one of the series’ sillier outings,” writes Ian Nathan for Empire Magazine (via Rotten Tomatoes). READ THIS NEXT: The Worst Movie Remake of All Time, According to Critics. Rotten Tomatoes score: 56 percent “James Bond gets bad news in Die Another Day: They’ve rescinded his license to kill. The news is worse for us. They’ve given him license to bore,” writes Joe Morgenstern for The Wall Street Journal. Rotten Tomatoes score: 56 percent “By sticking to the formula so religiously, Tomorrow Never Dies sells itself short,” writes Keith Phipps for The AV Club. Rotten Tomatoes score: 52 percent “All right for what it is, but will the day ever come when enough is enough?” writes Marjorie Baumgarten for the Austin Chronicle. Rotten Tomatoes score: 43 percent “Bond had degenerated into a male model, and something of a genial anachronism,” writes Richard Corliss for Time (via Rotten Tomatoes). For more fun content delivered straight to your inbox, sign up for our daily newsletter. Rotten Tomatoes score: 39 percent “Roger Moore’s interpretation of Bond is blandness personified,” writes Verina Glaessner for Time Out (via Rotten Tomatoes). Rotten Tomatoes score: 38 percent “It’s not double-oh-seven anymore, but double-oh-seventy, the best argument yet for the mandatory retirement age,” writes Paul Attanasio for The Washington Post. Rotten Tomatoes score: 27 percent “The few good aspects of this farce are vastly outweighed by the bad,” writes James Berardinelli for ReelViews. READ THIS NEXT: The Worst Movie That Came Out the Year You Graduated.
