PIERCE BROSNAN

"For England, James?"

"No. For me."

1995-2002

This is it. The man himself. My favorite Bond. What's not to love about this guy? He delivers a perfect blend of charm, charisma, wit, and a mean right hook. He gets one of the best fights in the series, a brutal hand to hand with, incidentally, one of the best villains in the series, Alec Trevelyan (Sean Bean), has one of the most capable Bond girls at his side (Natalya Simonova, played by Isabella Scorupco), and debuts in what many consider the greatest Bond film of all time.

Of course, the elephant in the room is that his tenure as the character had to end with one of the most disliked Bond films of all time, Die Another Day. That certainly wasn't his fault, and in hindsight this was more bad luck than anything, with the film not only having problems of its own but having to come out the same year The Bourne Identity hit the scene and changed the spy genre forever.

And good thing too, because that leads us to...