Rotten Tomatoes score: 95%
The very first Bond movie, 1962’s “Dr. No,” is still a high bar that the franchise rarely clears.
Without the success of “Dr. No,” which was released 64 years ago, it’s unlikely that we would’ve ever gotten 26 more films about the most debonair spy on his side of the Atlantic.
But “Dr. No” was successful, much due to Connery’s iconic take on the character.
Does the plot, in which Bond teams up with a seashell diver in Jamaica named Honey Ryder (the first Bond girl ever, Ursula Andress) to take down a mad scientist determined to stop a rocket launch with a radio beam named Dr. Julius No, make the most sense? No, but we love it anyway.
“[The] first screen adventure of Ian Fleming’s hard-hitting, fearless, imperturbable, girl-loving Secret Service Agent 007, James Bond, is an entertaining piece of tongue-in-cheek action hokum,” wrote Variety.
