Tuxedos, tradecraft, and the chase across borders.
the crop-duster, and the template for every chase since
the Bond formula, fixed in place
Connery's accent, and the submarine thriller perfected
Cameron's action-comedy, enormous and enormously fun
Brosnan's arrival, and the Bond a generation played
De Palma's set pieces
routinely ranked the worst of the eight, and defended just as often
Bond, rebuilt
Abrams, and the first one with stakes
Brad Bird, the Burj Khalifa
the best-shot Bond
the plane, and Ferguson's arrival
the action peak of the franchise
the train
mixed reviews, but *Dead Reckoning* doesn't resolve without it
