Advantages: Great cast, decent script Disadvantages: Bit drab in places
After the fun but cut and paste Tomorrow Never Dies (which ran out of steam about halfway through) a slight change of direction was required for Pierce Brosnan's third adventure. Michael Apted, a director not known for action or adventure films, was chosen to helm the film. The emphasis was clear. Content that their stunt crews could handle the action, Eon decided to pick a director who could work with actors and give their cast more to do than simply ... ...be the stripped-down and more realistic Brosnan Bond. Did they succeed? The answer is almost. Apted is the biggest strength of the film but also a weakness.
At the start of the film Bond has to collect Sir Robert King's stolen money in Bilbao. Things go pear-shaped and he has to escape from a building several floors up. The scene illustrates how comfortable Brosnan is with the role now. "If you can't trust a Swiss banker, then what's the world come ...
arthurpringle 08.08.2007
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Advantages: The opening sequence with the boat chase on the Thames Disadvantages: Denise Richards character did begin to get on my nerves after a little while
The World is not Enough, the last Bond film to feature Desmond Llewlyn who played Q in a total of 17 James Bond films.
Pierce Brosnan is back and co-starring with Full Monty and Trainspotting actor Robert Carlyle who plays Victor "Renard" Zokas. The Bond girls are the lovely Denise Richards (Charlie Sheen's wife) who plays Dr. Christmas Jones and Sophie Marceau plays the seductive and mysterious Elektra King.
Basically when British oil tycoon Sir ... ...to protect the heir and daughter of the deceased Elektra King. However a terrorist with an unusual characteristic (a bullet lodged in his brain making him immune to all forms of pain) launches a scheme to seize control of the global oil supply, leaving 007 little time to once again save the world from international catastrophe.
Despite the initial plot and the opening sequence with the boat chase on the Thames, I still felt that Brosnan still hadn't ...
thecrometrix 10.12.2006 (16.12.2006)
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