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16 of 22 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars
The Worst of 007, 19 Aug 2003
By A Customer
Until the release of 'Die Another Day'. Brosnan is the weakest Bond (Lazenby included), less of a man than Connery, Dalton and Lazenby and less funny than Moore. He tries for a combination of assets and finishes with nothing.It's by no means all his fault, more blame must go the producers Wilson and Broccoli. Still, at least the films are making money again.
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
HUGELY ENJOYABLE BOND ADVENTURE, 7 Aug 2007
I happen to be one of the biggest fans of Pierce Brosnan's Bond films so it is a foregone conclusion as to my opinion of this film. It was the first Bond film I watched on the big screen and I love it, is is enjoyable, has many a great action sequence and Pierce Brosnan, in his second role as 007, shows a confidence in getting into the role. Like all of his Bond films (GoldenEye, The World Is Not Enough and Die Another Day), the writers here develop a more character development trait within the film's plot. Here we have the wife of the villain, Paris Carver, played by Teri Hatcher, be revealed to have been one of Bond's former girlfriends, a relationship that was quite intense. We gain an emotional insight into the character as wee see how much he loves her by offering to protect her, but alas she is killed by her husband, Elliot Carver (played with wonderful relish by Jonathan Pryce), and we get an unusual emotional moment, something more akin to Bond's that are lesser considered in the public consciousness like Lazenby and Dalton. Here Brosnan can juggle many of the elements that we associate with Bond with a fantastic dash of style. We have ruthlessness, humor, humanity and an ice sense of cool that he really jumps upon. He is undeniably the heir to the throne of the best Bond on screen, and with him successfully continuing to play the character in two further films that were even stronger, he is, in my opinion, the best Bond there has ever been.
Tomorrow Never Dies is not the best Bond film that Brosnan has done (that honor belongs to The World Is Not Enough), but like other 'second' Bond films like From Russia With Love and The Man With The Golden Gun, it is a hugely enjoyable action thriller mixing a fun, if somewhat far fetched plot, with a great wealth of fun and entertainment, as well as some of the silliest, but funniest, puns to grace the screen. Making this tasty cake even more so is Jonathan Pryce's villain, Elliot Carver. Pryce, one of the best actors to come from Britain, is one of those maniacally over the top villains that ends up becoming so much fun you end up liking him. Michelle Yeoh is a great Bond girl, setting in stone the foundations for later films that the Bond girl has to be equal to Bond himself. Her performance is charming and her chemistry with Brosnan great fun to watch. Teri Hatcher is good, I suppose, but then again her much hyped appearance in the film amounts to little more than a glorified cameo appearance that, while memorable, doesn't ensure her to be the Bond girl that she could have been.
Featuring a fantastic music score from David Arnold (on a par with John Barry's work) and the most far fetched, but undeniably entertaining, car chase in recent years, this is undoubtedly one of the most fun Bond films that you will get a chance to enjoy. I loved it.
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2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Media mogul threatens Bond...??, 20 Dec 2005
The second outing for Pierce Brosnan as Bond is not as re-defining as his debut was, but taken as an action picture, or as the 18th movie in the Bond series, and it is still a top movie.The opening pre-credit sequence sets the tone for the whole film. Explosions...lots of them. And some incredibly cool action moments, plus a brilliant introduction to our leading spy hero. Jonathon Pryce plays villain duty this time - a media mogul threatening war so he can have the headlines. Although Pryce is all menace and civilised brutality, his character and the plot is really quite absurd. Still, it ensues with plenty of fantastic action set pieces, not least a claustrophobic car chase in a car park that uses a large number of gadgets, and a frantic motorbike chase with Bond and the Bond girl, Wai Lin (Michelle Yeoh) handcuffed together! The film barely pauses for breath as we travel from Germany to the Far East in the hunt for a stealth boat, but the stunts are numerous. The halo jump out of a plane is phenomenally shot, really giving a sense of height, and the motorbike jump across a helicopter is so good I wanted to rewind and watch it again! Brosnan, in my opinion, is the best Bond of all, and here he really relishes the role. Tough and violent, he still gives the chracter a charm and twinkling eye that only he can pull off. His interaction with Q is great fun to watch, and he is fully believable in the role. The DVD extras, however, pale in comparison to other Special Edition Bond films. We don't get a in-depth documentary this time, instead the DVD makers have plumped for a made for TV Bond documentary that doesn't focus solely on Tomorrow Never Dies, and so doesn't go into the kind of detail we have expected in previous Bond films. We still get the usual bunch of music videos and trailers, an interview with the music composer, and a text based featurette on Bond's gadgets. None of the extras were riveting, but the film is well worth the price alone.
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