Out now on DVD is the latest Bond film, touted by many as the best of the whole series, well it has most of the usual ingredients, explosions, car chases, motor-bike chases, plenty of pyrotechnics, villains and of course that essential ingredient, girls, girls, girls.

Daniel Craig now is accepted by many as the epitome of Ian Fleming’s most famous creation, but is he really as good as Sean Connery or even Roger Moore? This time around Bond is sent by MI6 on a mission to retrieve a computer disc that contains the secret identities of embedded North Atlantic Treaty Organisation agents. During a gunfight on the roof of a train, Bond is shot, falls into a waterfall and is presumed to have been killed. His superior, M, the head of MI6 writes his obituary, but mysteriously, Bond has survived.

When he realises that the nation is in dire danger, Bond returns to London, and though he apparently fails his fitness test, he is declared fit for active service and is put back on the case, still sparring verbally with Judi Dench as M. He finds himself up against a former agent, Raoul Silva, a vengeful computer hacker, and supposedly a deadly foe.

As played by Javier Barden, Silva is little more than a flamboyant pansy who would have been eaten alive by other Bond villains, such as Blofield or Scaramanga. Barden was much more effective as the deadly killer in No Country for Old Men.

What the film does have going for it however is some great location scenery in London, Macau, Shanghai and Scotland by cinematographer, Roger Deakins. Giving good support are Naomie Harris, Albert Finney, Bernice Marlohe, Ben Wilshaw and Ralph Fiennes.

But, the best Bond film ever? The jury is still out on that one.