10 Best Fight Scenes In James Bond Movies

From Sean Connery’s brutal train fight in From Russia with Love to Daniel Craig’s intense stairwell fight in Casino Royale, the James Bond movies are full of great fight scenes. The Bond franchise has delivered all kinds of action sequences over the course of its six-decade history. In GoldenEye, Bond chases after the bad guys in a tank. In the underrated Octopussy, the climactic action scene takes place on the wing of a plane in mid-air. A bunch of Bond movies culminate in an eye-popping explosion wiping the villain’s lair off the face of the earth.

One of the staples of the Bond series’ action is their fist-pumping fight sequences. In every Bond movie, 007 gets into at least one fight, whether it’s with the main villain, one of his henchmen, or a secondary baddie who gets in his way during his mission. From the shark tank fight where Bond feeds Jaws to a hungry aquatic predator in The Spy Who Loved Me to the Fort Knox fight where Bond has to use his smarts when he’s physically outmatched by Oddjob in Goldfinger, the Bond franchise is jam-packed with unforgettable fight scenes.

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Bond Vs. Patrice

Skyfall

In the second act of Skyfall, when Bond is finally back in action, he tracks down Patrice, a sniper who’s been hired to assassinate an art critic in Shanghai. Patrice sets up his rifle in a skyscraper and targets the critic through a window across the street. Bond doesn’t arrive in time to save the critic’s life — Patrice manages to pull the trigger before he gets there — but 007 quickly bests Patrice in hand-to-hand combat.

This is one of the sleekest fight scenes in the Bond franchise. There are no over-the-top touches or superfluous stylistic flourishes; it’s beautifully minimalistic in its execution. The fight itself is silhouetted against the mesmerizing neon lights of an animated billboard. This sequence is gorgeously shot by Skyfall’s legendary cinematographer, Roger Deakins, with the shadowy fight starkly juxtaposed against the brightly lit advertisement.

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The Death Match At The Kung Fu School

The Man With The Golden Gun

When Roger Moore played 007, the Bond movies took influence from other popular films of the time. Live and Let Die was inspired by blaxploitation movies, Moonraker was inspired by the Star Wars craze, and The Man with the Golden Gun was inspired by Bruce Lee’s blockbuster kung fu movies of the 1970s. It’s not a martial arts movie from start to finish, but there’s a mini martial arts movie wedged into the second act.

When Bond is captured and taken to a kung fu academy, the students (who are being trained as living, breathing lethal weapons) are all ordered to kill him. 007 has to fight his way out of the school in a death-match sequence inspired by Enter the Dragon. This is one of the Bond series’ most over-the-top fight scenes, but it’s undeniably thrilling.

8

007’s First Kill

Casino Royale

Inspired by the popularity of the Bourne franchise, the usually goofy and far-fetched Bond franchise was injected with a refreshing sense of gritty realism in Daniel Craig’s first outing, Casino Royale. Casino Royale went back to fill in Bond’s origin story, explaining how he earned 00 status and became such a cold-blooded killer. And in doing so, it brought 007 into the real world with realistically brutal violence.

The grim tone of Casino Royale is instantly established in the chilling opening scene depicting Bond’s first kill in stark black-and-white. Since 007 isn’t accustomed to killing yet, it’s not a swift, elegant assassination; it’s horribly messy. It’s a gruesome, drawn-out affair in which Bond callously murders a man in a filthy bathroom, and the high-contrast black-and-white palette gives it the feel of an old-school film noir.

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The Hotel Room Scene

On Her Majesty’s Secret Service

George Lazenby made the least Bond movies out of any Bond actor. Even Timothy Dalton outdid Lazenby with his two controversial outings. But one movie was all Lazenby needed to become an icon, because On Her Majesty’s Secret Service is one of the finest Bond films ever made. It has gorgeous cinematography that’s inspired Christopher Nolan and Steven Soderbergh, it has a genuinely touching love story that culminates in a tragic final twist, and it’s got one of the franchise’s all-time best fight scenes.

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Lazenby’s 007 is ambushed in a hotel room and, despite being caught at a disadvantage, manages to get the upper hand. An unsuspecting Bond is bludgeoned from behind upon entering his hotel room. But instead of reacting with fear or confusion, his immediate response is to throw a chair at the guy.

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Bond Vs. Hinx

Spectre

On the whole, Spectre is one of Daniel Craig’s weakest Bond movies. Its attempt to retroactively pull all the previous movies into a cohesive Marvel-style continuity was pretty futile, and the twist that Bond is Blofeld’s long-lost brother is so absurd that Austin Powers did it first. But Spectre does have one of Bond’s best fight scenes when Dave Bautista’s strapping henchman Hinx attacks 007 on a train.

It’s not one of the most realistic action sequences in the Bond franchise — it’s bombastic and exaggerated — but it is a thrilling piece of action filmmaking. Bond is massively outmatched by Hinx. Hinx is twice his size and effortlessly hurls him around the train. Bond has no hope of actually winning the fight; he’s just trying to stay alive until a miracle comes along to save him.

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Bond Vs. Oddjob

Goldfinger

The climactic sequence of Goldfinger takes place at Fort Knox, where Auric Goldfinger is planning to smelt down the gold supply to increase the value of his own. Before Bond can get to Goldfinger himself and thwart that ludicrous scheme, he has to face Goldfinger’s top henchman, Oddjob. Up to this point, Oddjob has mostly used his deadly bowler hat in fights. But when he faces Bond, all he needs are his two fists.

Oddjob throws Bond around like a rag doll; his attempts to fight back are futile. This is one of the rare fight scenes in which Bond can’t use his brawn to defeat the baddie, so he has to use his quick wits to outsmart the hulking henchman. It becomes so clear that Bond is outmatched that he resorts to throwing gold bars at his enemy.

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Bond Vs. Jaws

The Spy Who Loved Me

Very few Bond movie henchmen are as popular as Jaws. The metal-toothed goon proved to be such a fan-favorite that he was brought back to torment 007 again in the next film, Moonraker, where he found love in one of Bond’s campest moments. But before that, Jaws worked for Karl Stromberg in The Spy Who Loved Me. When Bond arrives at Stromberg’s base to kill him, he has to go through Jaws first.

This fight scene hilariously exemplifies just how formidable Jaws is. Bond defeats Jaws by tossing him into the water tank where Stromberg’s bloodthirsty shark lives. But before the shark can take a bite out of Jaws, Jaws lives up to his name and takes a bite out of the shark. It’s a great slapstick punchline at the end of a fun, pulpy, David-versus-Goliath fight scene.

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Bond Vs. Alec Trevelyan

GoldenEye

Pierce Brosnan’s tenure as 007 peaked in his first movie, GoldenEye. It’s the best action movie of the Brosnan era, but it’s also the most compelling story of the Brosnan era. Alec Trevelyan is no ordinary Bond villain; he’s Bond’s friend and colleague who he thought was dead, but had actually switched sides to join the bad guys. After grieving the loss of his friend, 007 goes through a whole different kind of loss when he finds out his friend betrayed him.

This emotional dynamic makes Bond’s final showdown with Trevelyan much more dramatically engaging than the average Bond fight scene. And it’s not just compelling on a dramatic level; it’s riveting action cinema, too. Their climactic confrontation starts out as a shootout before devolving into a close-quarters fistfight. They’re confined to a small space, with nowhere to run.

2

The Stairwell Scene

Casino Royale

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The middle act of Casino Royale drastically slows down the movie. After Casino Royale opens with Bond killing a man in a bathroom and doing parkour on a sun-drenched construction site, the majority of its second act sees 007 sitting at a poker table, taking part in a high-stakes tournament. But halfway through the poker tournament, Bond is ambushed by a couple of goons in a stairwell, and he has to beat them to death before they can do the same to him.

This fight scene is a stark contrast from Bond’s usual fisticuffs. Bond usually wins his fights with ease, but this is a desperate battle to the death. The violence isn’t cool and stylized; it’s cruel, gruesome, and hauntingly realistic. When it’s finally over, Vesper’s traumatized response mirrors that of a shocked audience.

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Bond Vs. Red Grant

From Russia With Love

The greatest fight scene in the Bond franchise arrived in just the second movie, From Russia with Love. All throughout the film, 007 is being hunted by a ruthless assassin named Red Grant. This B-plot culminates in Grant confronting Bond on the Orient Express. Grant initially has Bond at gunpoint, but Bond manages to get the gun out of his hand and engage him in a fair fight.

The setting of a speeding train car gives this fight a chillingly claustrophobic feel. The hand-to-hand combat is so brutal that it’s almost primal. It’s not a fun, entertaining action set-piece; it’s two men fighting for their lives. This fight is so intense that it successfully makes the audience forget that 007 has plot armor. All these years later, the James Bond series still hasn’t topped this fight scene.

James Bond

Created by

Ian Fleming, Albert R. Broccoli

First Film

Dr. No

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No Time to Die

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Summary

The James Bond franchise centers on the fictional British Secret Service agent James Bond, also known by his code number 007. Created by writer Ian Fleming in 1953, Bond has been featured in novels, films, television, radio, comics, and video games. The film series, produced by Eon Productions, is one of the longest-running and highest-grossing franchises in history, known for its blend of espionage, action, and sophisticated style.

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