Have to throw my hat into the Dalton ring. A superb Bond,
A shame that we didn't see more than two movies from Dalton.
"Die Another Day" - a fun romp, granted, but moved as far away from Bond territory than any entry to date. Also, the over reliance on CGI in that movie took much of the excitement from it. The thing that made earlier Bonds so exciting was knowing that most of those stunts were performed for real, and they blow away any CGI generated action any day.
Ironically some of the best are from the Moore era. The ski jump in "The Spy Who Loved Me", the freefall parachute flight in "Moonraker", and the Citroen car chase, the mountain climbing sequence and the ski chase on the bobsled run all in "For Your Eyes Only", to name but a few...