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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Bond is required to protect a female oil magnate from potential assassination, but it soon becomes apparent that something far bigger and sinister is around the corner.
Pierce Brosnan returns for his third turn as super suave spy James Bond and all the crucial elements for the franchise are firmly in place. From the exhilarating pre-credit sequence down the river Thames to the glorious over the top explosive finale, this is a Bond film for those that enjoy the cheeky action led mania over thought and depth. Into the Bondian mix are the usual stalwarts; Judi Dench as M, Samantha Bond as Moneypenny, Desmond Llewelyn as Q {bidding a sad farewell to the franchise with a poignant moment} and Robbie Coltrane returns as Zukovsky. Bond girl duties fall to Sophie Marceau {beautiful and solid} and Denise Richards {sexy, elfin like, but out of her depth} and the psycho for hire role lands at the considerably fine feet of Robert Carlyle, even if the latter is badly underused.
The World Is Not Enough {the Bond family motto} is a whizz bang entry in the series and finds Brosnan well settled in the role; nailing the multitude of traits that make Bond a man that women want to bed and a man that men want to be. It is, however, in spite of its excellent action set pieces, rather shallow and all too aware of wanting to appease Bond fans across the spectrum. Thus the comedy moments come off as saggy and the more scientific aspects {as gloriously ridiculous as they are} feel more like auto-pilot plotting. Still, you get what you pay for with 90s Bond, so after the mixed Tomorrow Never Dies the makers were clearly intent on taking the fans on a ripper of a ride, and no doubt about it, they achieve that in spades. With the two hour running time just flying by. They of course would take it one step too far three years later with the nadir that was Die Another Day, thus making this the last good Bond film before Daniel Craig's fabulous re-invention arrived in 2006. 7/10
Pierce Brosnan returns for his third turn as super suave spy James Bond and all the crucial elements for the franchise are firmly in place. From the exhilarating pre-credit sequence down the river Thames to the glorious over the top explosive finale, this is a Bond film for those that enjoy the cheeky action led mania over thought and depth. Into the Bondian mix are the usual stalwarts; Judi Dench as M, Samantha Bond as Moneypenny, Desmond Llewelyn as Q {bidding a sad farewell to the franchise with a poignant moment} and Robbie Coltrane returns as Zukovsky. Bond girl duties fall to Sophie Marceau {beautiful and solid} and Denise Richards {sexy, elfin like, but out of her depth} and the psycho for hire role lands at the considerably fine feet of Robert Carlyle, even if the latter is badly underused.
The World Is Not Enough {the Bond family motto} is a whizz bang entry in the series and finds Brosnan well settled in the role; nailing the multitude of traits that make Bond a man that women want to bed and a man that men want to be. It is, however, in spite of its excellent action set pieces, rather shallow and all too aware of wanting to appease Bond fans across the spectrum. Thus the comedy moments come off as saggy and the more scientific aspects {as gloriously ridiculous as they are} feel more like auto-pilot plotting. Still, you get what you pay for with 90s Bond, so after the mixed Tomorrow Never Dies the makers were clearly intent on taking the fans on a ripper of a ride, and no doubt about it, they achieve that in spades. With the two hour running time just flying by. They of course would take it one step too far three years later with the nadir that was Die Another Day, thus making this the last good Bond film before Daniel Craig's fabulous re-invention arrived in 2006. 7/10
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
The World is Not Enough is a good film starring Pierce Brosnan, it has everything that you would expect from a Bond film such as action, gadgets and exotic locations. However, this film in my opinion marks the beginning of the end for this phase of the franchise as the cliches, preponderance of gadgets and humour were just starting to get a little stale. All in all though it is still a good film.
3 of 4 people found the following review helpful
The World Is Not Enough is one of the best of the more recent Bond films. Pierce Brosnan gives perhaps his best performance as James bond - it's nice to see a darker and more ruthless Bond, but still have the occasional one line quip. The supporting cast as also excellent - Dame Judi Dench gets a much larger role as M in this film, Robert Carlyle and Sophie Marceau are great as the villians Renard and Electra.
The story moves at a fairly fast pace with some great action pieces - the ski chase and the saw blade helicopter chase are my faverites. The film also has one of the best (and longest) pre credit sequences. The theme some is also one of the best. In fact there is very little I can fault on this film except perhaps Denise Richards is rather wooden as Dr Christmas Jones.
The dvd is the vanila one disk release but still is remastered with audio commentary tracks featuring the director Michael Apted and a second track with some of the film crew. So if you are a Bond fan or just like a good action film but cant be doing with the extras, then this dvd is for you. Thanks for reading my review.
The story moves at a fairly fast pace with some great action pieces - the ski chase and the saw blade helicopter chase are my faverites. The film also has one of the best (and longest) pre credit sequences. The theme some is also one of the best. In fact there is very little I can fault on this film except perhaps Denise Richards is rather wooden as Dr Christmas Jones.
The dvd is the vanila one disk release but still is remastered with audio commentary tracks featuring the director Michael Apted and a second track with some of the film crew. So if you are a Bond fan or just like a good action film but cant be doing with the extras, then this dvd is for you. Thanks for reading my review.
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