First, "Pam Bouvier" (Carey Lowell) may be my favourite Bond girl - capable, resourceful, elegant, smart, committed...

Is this a "Bond movie"? Q, his gadgets, and the humor sure helped. It is more action than espionage, but the action is over the top in what looked like a whole lot of fun to me. This was 1987 but I still found myself going "wow, that was cool!" I mean, that waterskiing behind the plane sequence was gold!

Yes, there was a lot more going on than Bond's vendetta, and his disconnect from intelligence made him seem like more of a nuisance than an asset to anyone.

It has finally dawned on me that each era of Bond portrayal is an interpretation of the idea of Bond, not some attempt to play the Bond that the previous actor played. So comparing the actors isn't as on point as discussing the interpretations written that they merely portrayed. So, I could go so far as to say everyone who ever played Bond nailed it as it was written for them to play, and we're left to discuss which era/interpretation we enjoy more or less.

I'm now a Timothy Dalton's Bond fan. Sadly, only two movies with him, but they're both rewatchable.