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Glamour is increasing in the Bond productions, with the special effects and gadgetry associated with Bond, the famous Bond girls being portrayed by models or already well known actresses who are also treated as sex symbols, and Bond himself, here played by Pierce Brosnan for the third time. The new wave of the Bond team has by now set itself into a comfortable slot, and has attracted a good following with the style of filming and characterisation. The World Is Not Enough is a great example of all of this, with three/four Bond girls, and some awesome villains, not to mention another world domination plot.
The Plot
James Bond is sent to find the man who ordered the killing of M's friend, Sir Robert King, British oil tycoon. The assassin was under the employ of Renard, a man who had previously survived an assassination atempt by 009, but was left with a bullet in his head, leaving him impervious to pain. Believing King's daughter, Elektra, to be Renard's intended target, Bond is dispatched to protect her and the oil pipeline she is now in charge
of following her father's death, and discovers that Renard is more than a match for the MI6 agent.
The Cast and Performances
Pierce Brosnan has Bond nailed. With the combination of his charisma and his action ability, the actor leaves me with a sense of feeling that he IS James Bond, not merely an actor playing the character. Another brilliant performance. French beauty Sophie Marceau plays Elektra King, a woman in a powerful but vulnerable position, and is sexy and entrancing in the role. Denise Richards plays American nuclear physicist Christmas Jones, and is rather revealing and sultry in the role, while Serena Scott Thomas oozes as Dr Molly Warmflash (how do they choose these names!), and Maria Grazia Cucinotta opens the film with her performance as the assassin Renard sends after Sir Robert King, known only as the Cigar Girl.
In terms of a villain, the brilliant Robert Carlyle is ever so scary as Renard. With a scar and a bullet in his brain, and an attitude to match, the man is virtually rabid in the role, hungry for Bond's blood, and the blood of anyone who will stand in his way of sabotaging just about anything in the world. Carlyle gives perhaps the best performance in the film - haunting.
Desmond Llewelyn, Dame Judi Dench and Samanatha Bond return again as Q, M and Miss Moneypenny, with Q's protege R being added to the fold, played by John Cleese, obviously no stranger to the tongue in cheek side of acting following his comedic days with the Monty Python crew, Fawlty Towers, and That Was The Week That Was, to name but a few of his credits. He fits in very well in what is to become a constant role, hopefully. Robbie Coltrane also reprises his role as Valentin Zukovsky, Russian mafia boss.
The remainder of the cast support the film very well.
My Opinion
This is one of the easiest Bond films to remember as the plot is rather less complicated. Naturally, Bond films tend to have a twist in them, and this one's is no less surprising than any other, and I will not ruin it for you, but the cast do everything so well in this film that a simple plot is turned into a brilliant film. Director Michael Apted does well behind the camera, as he brings something different. Although I did like the run of Bond films directed by John Glen that followed each other because of the consistency they gave the character, it is nice and refreshing to see such a variety in direction from film to film in the later part of the Bond series so far.
The special effects are once again marvellous, with Bond unsurprisingly being unstoppable thanks to Q and R's gadgetry, and the explosions just keep on coming, with the technical guys on this film deserving a special mention for their work. The only criticism I do have is that this is ever so slightly over the top in places.
Released in 1999, The World Is Not Enough was originally scheduled for 2000, and the title was rumoured to be Bond 2000, amongst other things. In the end, the title was decided by choosing a phrase from the only Bond film to feature George Lazenby as Bond, On Her Majesty's Secret Service, where the phrase is mentioned in its Latin form, proving that the titles of the Bond films are not random!!!
Garbage perform the title track, written by Arnold & Black, now firm Bond musical writers. On its release, the film did very well, and exceeded all previous Bond films at the box office. Bond seems to go from strength to strength.
Conclusion
Going all out on Bond this time with famous faces and even more Bond girls and special effects.
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Production Year: 2003 - Action/Adventure - Director: Jonathon Mostow - Original Language: English - Classification: 12 years and over - Starring:Arnold Schwarzenegger, Nick Stahl, Claire Danes, Kristinna Loken, David Andrews
Production Year: 1964 - Action/Adventure - Director: Cyril Endfield - Original Language: English - Classification: Parental Guidance - Starring:Stanley Baker, Jack Hawkins, Ulla Jacobsson, James Booth, Michael Caine, Nigel Green
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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
Advantages: edtion gets better and better, great locations and some of the best stunt work you will ever see Disadvantages: more of Denise Richards would be nice!
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