The World Is Not Enough (1999)
Country: GB/US
Technical: DeLuxe/scope 128m
Director: Michael Apted
Cast: Pierce Brosnan, Sophie Marceau, Robert Carlyle
Synopsis:
Bond is sent to the Caucasus to protect the daughter of a murdered oil industrialist from her ex-kidnapper nemesis.
Review:
Topical nods in the direction of current East-West economics and the millennium celebrations accompany us on a revisit of favourite Bond set pieces: a speedboat chase, a skiing sequence and good old ticking bombs. The jokes are as hoary as ever, Q bows out, M gets rescued (an inevitable corollary of casting a woman in the role) and there is rather more sex than recently the case. On the other hand there are at least token gestures towards motivation and characterization, products no doubt of having a literate director at the helm.
Country: GB/US
Technical: DeLuxe/scope 128m
Director: Michael Apted
Cast: Pierce Brosnan, Sophie Marceau, Robert Carlyle
Synopsis:
Bond is sent to the Caucasus to protect the daughter of a murdered oil industrialist from her ex-kidnapper nemesis.
Review:
Topical nods in the direction of current East-West economics and the millennium celebrations accompany us on a revisit of favourite Bond set pieces: a speedboat chase, a skiing sequence and good old ticking bombs. The jokes are as hoary as ever, Q bows out, M gets rescued (an inevitable corollary of casting a woman in the role) and there is rather more sex than recently the case. On the other hand there are at least token gestures towards motivation and characterization, products no doubt of having a literate director at the helm.
Country: GB/US
Technical: DeLuxe/scope 128m
Director: Michael Apted
Cast: Pierce Brosnan, Sophie Marceau, Robert Carlyle
Synopsis:
Bond is sent to the Caucasus to protect the daughter of a murdered oil industrialist from her ex-kidnapper nemesis.
Review:
Topical nods in the direction of current East-West economics and the millennium celebrations accompany us on a revisit of favourite Bond set pieces: a speedboat chase, a skiing sequence and good old ticking bombs. The jokes are as hoary as ever, Q bows out, M gets rescued (an inevitable corollary of casting a woman in the role) and there is rather more sex than recently the case. On the other hand there are at least token gestures towards motivation and characterization, products no doubt of having a literate director at the helm.