I just happened upon this column about 1969's On Her Majesty's Secret Service (link), which, if I HAD to pick one, was the very best Bond movie ever made.BTW, it DOESN'T star Sean Connery.
From: The Revolutionary James Bond Movie, by Robert Castle (link):
...It relies on action and not action devices to generate excitement. Gone are the Aston-Martin death machine, the miniature helicopters, and the rocket backpack. Also absent is a slow, uninvolving sequence like the underwater battle in Thunderball. The Bond Movie returns to James Bond. The superhero does not need superfluous technologyIf you've never seen it, it's well worth the rental fee (in "Letterbox", of course).
...perhaps On Her Majesty’s Secret Service’s most revolutionary move not only returned Bond to his own devices but followed Fleming’s novel very closely, part of the process mentioned earlier of returning the series to James Bond.
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