Moonraker

Skippable, and it is the series at its most shameless. The previous film's credits had announced a different sequel; Star Wars was released in the interim, so Bond went to space instead. The final act is a laser battle in orbit between astronauts on wires.

What is genuinely odd is that it is largely a remake of The Spy Who Loved Me with the setting changed. A megalomaniac intends to destroy humanity and repopulate from a master group, there is a hidden base, there is a large final battle between uniformed forces, and Jaws returns. The one deviation is that Jaws changes sides, falls in love and is given a comic ending, which finished him as a threat.

It was the highest-grossing film in the series until GoldenEye, so the gamble worked commercially. The Venice sequence with the gondola that becomes a hovercraft, complete with a pigeon double-taking, is the exact point where the series stopped pretending.

Michael Lonsdale is a decent villain given nothing, and the Rio and Venice location work is handsome. Watch it as a curiosity. The series itself treated it as an embarrassment and corrected course immediately.