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Tomorrow Never Dies (Special Edition)

Tomorrow Never Dies (Special Edition)

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Rating: 4 stars
Summary: Great as there is Michelle Yeoh
Review: This show is another typical Bond shows where you will get to see cool gadgets. However, different this time is the Bond girl. An Asian bond girl that kiss ... . Michelle Yeoh really adds colours to this show. Overall, quite a nice and exciting show.

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: Great as there is Michelle Yeoh
Review: This show is another typical Bond shows where you will get to see cool gadgets. However, different this time is the Bond girl. An Asian bond girl that kick...Michelle Yeoh really adds colours to this show. Overall, quite a nice and exciting show.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Do You Know Were Your Navy Is??
Review: I've never met anyone that didn't like a James Bond film. They may be out there, but so what. Pierce Brosnan is a good Bond. He plays the roll as a tough guy. Megalomaniac publisher wants to take over the world by creating the news instead of just reporting the news. He even uses the news to try to start a war, but of course, James finds a way to stop him. The great scene for me was using GPS to take the British Navy off course into Chinese waters, and yet the Navy is sure they are still in international waters. It's a very good use of technology in a film. My only complaint about this film is that I wish Teri Hatcher had more time on film. Michelle Yeoh is excellent as Bonds counterpart. Good action and great stunts as usual. Buy this film if you're a Bond collector.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: best bond
Review: This movie is simply the best bond of all time.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: The Best Bond
Review: This Bond is the best because it is very realistic and pumped with excitement and action.

Rating: 3 stars
Summary: Tommorow Never Dies
Review: Bond no. 18, directed by Roger Spottiswoode, is a solid entry into the franchise, yet fails to reach the heights of the excellent Goldeneye (1995).

The plot is silly and contrived, with the "stealth ship" thing being the most far-fetched concept the Bond writers have ever come up with. Still, considering that Ian Flemming's Novels (that were the backbone of the earlier films) aren't there, the ideas are suitable for the series' continuation of villains and their hideouts.

Pierce Brosnan fits into the role of Bond more smoothly, rather than the "take the money and run" act in Goldeneye, and Michelle Yeoh is good eye candy as the obligatory "Bond chick". The main villain Elliot Carver is a big disappointment, with nothing much to do but talk about the media, making for a very weak bad guy.

But the action is good in parts, including an outstanding scene with helicopters and motorbikes, David Arnold's score marks a return to the staple Bond theme, and there is a welcome amount of things getting blown to bits.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: The best of the Pierce Brosnan Bond with some Girl Power...
Review: This is my favorite of the Pierce Brosnan Bond films... The action is great and not too far-fetced and cheesey like The World Is Not Enough. Michelle Yeoh is awesome in this film... She's the Chinese equivalent to Bond and just adds a lot of flavor to this movie.
This is a great DVD to have in your collection, especially since it's very hard to find. In my opinion it is well worth it to purchase this title used.

Rating: 1 stars
Summary: Ridiculously Stupid
Review: This movie does have some really nice settings, but that's about all I can give it.
The action falls flat on its face. Like the time James is driving down the road on his motorcycle and a helicopter comes down the street sideways so its blades can chop him up. What? I'm no authority on helicopters, but I do know enough to say that not even a James Bond helicopter could do that.
And that was the least of what annoyed me. The movie didn't show any amount military expertise in James Bond, just a lot of pure luck. Hundreds of men got a clear shot at his back and his front and his side, but they always missed. Lucky for him cause he doesn't appear to understand any basic tactics, fighting skills, or combat stances. He even pauses in the open under machine gun fire to watch girls climb up walls. Do the British teach that? I'm sorry, but if superman attempted half what this man did superman would be dead. The fact is when twenty machine gunners fire at you all at the same moment you are going to die. Ask anybody who does no anything about weapons. I doubt that the British military would allow a man of James Bond's skill to be a private. They might hire his car though.
And since I'm on the technology thing with all the gizmos James has-the perfect gadgets at the perfect moment too-more luck, he reminds me of inspector gadget.
And this isn't over yet. The plot is entirely driven by his relentless luck which kills any suspense or interest the film could have.
Make James Bond a sappy poet; he'd do great!

Rating: 3 stars
Summary: Bond In The Grand Tradition
Review: Pierce Brosnan's second 007 film suffers from one irredeemable flaw---the villain. Brosnan himself settles into the role of Bond, and makes it his own, in a manner unsurpassed since Sean Connery.

Brosnan's Bond is more accessible, and more humane and sensitive than Connery's. Somehow, you just can't imagine Brosnan's Bond loving and leaving them without just a twinge of regret. Unlike Connery's Bond, Brosnan's Bond has room for nostalgia. It's obvious in his relationships with Agent Wai-Lin (Michelle Yeoh) and Paris Carver (Teri Hatcher).

Brosnan's comedy is more pointed and more restrained than Roger Moore's. While Moore played it for laughs (and ended up parodying himself), Brosnan satisfies himself primarily with Connerian quips.

He also looks wonderful in Brioni. Timothy Dalton's Bond always had an air of disrepute, like he was hiding a badly frayed cuff, but Brosnan is all style.

TOMORROW NEVER DIES concerns the machinations of media mogul Eliot Carver (Jonathan Pryce), a kind of Rupert Murdoch with rabies, who lives by the McLuhanesque dictum that "the media is the message." Believing so, he starts World War Three just to get the scoop.

This already absurd premise suffers all the more because Pryce is horribly miscast. Dressed all in black, he resembles a middle aged wannabe hip SoHo gallery owner far more than a corporate titan. The character radiates no power and no threat. (Think of Michael Douglas in WALL STREET for a counterpoint.)

Do we really care if this hornrimmed nebbish wants 72 point type on page one? And would a man like this really command the authority to manipulate China and Great Britain into a war? Would this loser really have been able to entice Teri Hatcher away from Bond?

The answer to all three questions is no, and, despite the rest of the fine acting and fast action, TOMORROW NEVER DIES goes flat because there's no tension. This Bad Guy is not SPECTRE.
This Evil Genius is The Paperboy.

We already know that Bond is going to prevail over the villain. The difficulty of doing so is the fun part. The problem is that my kid sister could prevail over Eliot Carver. Watching my sister beat this geek up would be more dramatic than TOMORROW NEVER DIES.

The shame is that this could have been among the best of the Bonds. As it is, it's merely average.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: This Set contains a DIFFERENT Featurette than the DVD
Review: This review is for the TOMORROW NEVER DIES Limited Edition Gift Pack on VHS (ASIN: 079283965X). It is a 2-tape set. It contains the video "Highly Classified: the World of 007" hosted by the late Desmond Lewelin as Q as well as TOMORROW NEVER DIES in full-frame. This video is completely different from the "Secrets of 007" found on the TOMORROW NEVER DIES DVD! As far as I know this is the only place you can get this great featurette. "Highly Classified: the World of 007" (VHS) is a good complement to "Secrets of 007" (DVD). This set comes in a metallic colored box with a raised 007 logo and also contains a copy of the script and a set of stills. No matter what you think of TOMORROW NEVER DIES this is a great set just for all the extras. I happen to like TOMORROW NEVER DIES very much. I think it is one of the best films of the series and has been maligned because it went in a completely different direction from the popular GOLDENEYE. It takes the best of the Bond formula and adds a new dimension of realism that really enhances the confrontation between Bond and the villains. Bond is not the superman or comic hero in this film. Bond is flesh and blood and very vulnerable. There is a true sense of menace and danger in this film that takes it several notches higher than many of the other films in the series.


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