The World Is Not Enough

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Summary: Worst Bond Film Next Only To Moonraker
Review: "You could have had the world." "The world is not enough." That is a mere sample of the disgusting, pitiful, horrible, dialouge that plauges this weak, boring, formulaic film. What happened to Goldeneye? Brosnan looked promising in his first two features, what happened? Oddly enough this was one of the best rated Bond films in a while. God save the queen.

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Summary: BUY IT NOW!!!!!!!!!!
Review: NOT LATER, BUT NOW!!!!!! NO, NOW!!!!!!!!!!!! BUY IT!!!!!

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Summary: utter trash
Review: this was by far the worst bond film ever. i thought they couldn't get worse than a view to a kill or the man with the golden gun but it did. First problem was with electra charachter(this isn't Greek tragedy she was a villian to get revenge on her father and she was in love with renard" what a lame idea for a villiness. the second problem it had no plot. third problem brosnan was just not putting anything to the role. The movie was just pointless loud violent garbage. goldeneye was ok, tnd was good(it had some plot) but this was utter stupidity.

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Summary: Sure you have to see it BUT...
Review: It's a let down. It's Brosnan's Moonraker. But what the hay, it's a Bond film you have to see it. If you collect the films you have to buy it.

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Summary: worst bond ever
Review: This has got to be the worst James Bond movie ever made. All it is is a constant overflow of chessey one-liners(too many even for a Bond flick). I will admit that it does have some well-executed action scenes, which is why i gave it 2 stars instead of 1. And, i also must say, not to sound perverted, but the girls in this bond flick are the hottest of 'em all. (...)

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Summary: Psychological thriller
Review: Brosnan's Bond is really turning into a goldmine of action and drama; in this film we really do not know what's going on until about halfway through the movie, the last time we were so "in the dark" was Dalton's Living Daylights. We watch Bond and sexy Electra fall in love, only to see that she is really the BAD girl. The only thing that hurts the movie is Denise Richards, she shouldn't have been there, not needed. Let Bond lose out in love without someone "waiting in the wings". Its a very special Bond movie because you really do like Electra, in fact you feel for the villain, too.

My beef was with how Bond handles both of them. I would change the ending. I'd turn in Electra and bring her boyfriend/villain to justice AND medical treatment to save his life. Instead of "License to kill", a "license to heal" and have Bond read a letter from Electra in prison thanking him for saving her life, in fact show the villain, as a changed man from his prison cell.

Finish with "M" lecturing him on how he's gotten older and wiser, and have him remark, "its not enough to have a license to kill, sometimes even the world is not enough". Maybe someone who writes Bond scripts will read this review and in the next film go in a new, unexpected direction.

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Summary: Quintessential Bond
Review: The World Is Not Enough is typical James Bond. Part thriller and part comedy. Slick and inventive. If you're looking for new aspects to the series, you aren't going to get it here. Part of the charm of 007 is the tried and true formula of doing the same things over and over, but with different characters and new locations.

The basic plot, which I feel I can give you about the first five minutes because after that I'll spoil it. It gets too dense to explain anyway, you just have to see it. An oil-tycoon friend of M's (Judi Dench) is killed, and his daughter is feared to be next after her recent escape from the clutches of a power-hungry madman, Renard (Robert Carlyle). James Bond (Pierce Brosnan) is sent to protect her and thwart the villain. I have a confession. With all my nagging about plot sequence, inconsistencies, characterizations, etc. I must tell you that for a James Bond movie I virtually let all that stuff go out the window. Not sure why, but since I know the formula so well, it's almost more fun to watch for the trademark stuff. Let's go through and see which ones you also like watching for.

James Bond. 007. The man himself. There have been many. No one can hold a candle to Sean Connery. He IS James Bond. Everyone since has had some pretty big shoes to fill. Pierce Brosnan comes to the closest to the master, in my estimation. Roger Moore was Bond when I was a kid, so I like him because the first one I ever saw was For Your Eyes Only. Timothy Dalton was a disaster, sheesh, who picked that guy? But Brosnan affects the same charm, wit and ease of the character as Connery....almost.

There are always two gorgeous Bond babes. Bond always sleeps with both of them. One of them always ends up dead. Note to female readers: don't sleep with James Bond, because then you only have a 50/50 shot at surviving the next 72 hours or so. Not good odds, so don't chance it.

This time it's Elektra King (Sophie Marceau) the daughter of the dead oil tycoon that James must protect and then there's nuclear physicist Christmas Jones (Denise Richards). I would be remiss if I didn't mention, daring escapes, sensational chase sequences, exotic locations, diabolical villains and fantastical ways to meet one's demise. My favorite "weapon" in this movie was the monstrously huge multi-bladed tree trimmer contraption dangling from a menacing helicopter. They flew that sucker around sawing through all kinds of neat stuff.

Our dear James would not be complete without the old stand-bys back at British intelligence. M, Bond's boss whom Dame Judi Dench plays with conviction and respect. Even though it is obviously far beneath her talent, she never lets up for a moment. Miss Moneypenny and a new face in R (John Cleese), Q's gadget guru apprentice.

On a sad note, when you get the video, there is a tribute to Desmond Llewelyn who has been playing Q since 1963. In the film, the retirement of Q is mentioned in the story, but sadly, Desmond Llewelyn passed away last year and the video tribute to him at the beginning of the video is touching and appropriate for a man who was so dedicated to a single character. The storyline and plot gets a little muddled and confusing in a couple spots, mostly in favor of demonstrating some of the trademark cool Bond stuff instead. If you're the kind of James Bond fan who enjoys the old standards, I don't think you'll be disappointed. If you are the fan who wants to see something new, this isn't for you.

I've got Dr. No and Goldfinger in my video cabinet. I'm still waiting for a movie to top the ultimate good guy-villain exchange, "Do you expect me to talk, Goldfinger? No, Mr. Bond. I expect you to die." I mean, how cool is that? Cheesy and hip at the same time. That's the James Bond genre, if you can get through all the double entendres without grimacing, you'll be OK. The World Is Not Enough, in this case, the video is not enough. If you haven't seen it yet, see it, but especially for the tribute to Desmond Llewelyn.

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Summary: THIS world is way too much...in melodrama
Review: The World Is Not Enough is a good Bond film, but I remember having a better time in the theater watching A View To A Kill, a film that everybody seems to to trash but was never able to come up with an adequate reason to back up their claim.

TWINE opens up with a 13+ minute pre-title teaser (one of the main complaints I have with Brosnan's Bond is that the teaser is always soooo long) which have Bond in Spain before skipping to London, where Sir Robert King, a close friend of M, got blown uo with exploding money. It then seques onto a spectacular boat chase on the river Thames as Bond chases after the delectable Giulietta da Vinci (aka Cigar Girl), played by Maria Grazia Cucinotta. With pure Bondian logic, the river chase ended up on hotair balloon where Giulietta prefer suicide than to tell our hero who was the one who blew King up.

With King gone, Bond is convinced that Victor Zokov, aka Renard the Anarchist, who onced kidnapped King's daughter Elektra, is behind the assassination and is now after the bereaved daughter.

The rest of the movie have Bond trying to track down Renard, see what is he really up to, and find out if Elektra is really as innocent as she looks.

Overall, this is one of the few Bond films which actually delve deeper into some of the characters. But for every attempt at character development, something else misfires.

The scenes between Renard and Elektra are too melodramatic. It is an attempt to make the audience sympathize with the villain, with somehow it just sort of get....gooey, for lack of a better word. You might think that our villain would revel in the fact that he can't feel pain thanks to a bullet in his head. But no.... he bemoaned his fate like a Shakespearean character trapped in the wrong story.

While Elektra is well developed, Bond's other interest, Christmas Jones, is woefully underwritten and really does next to nothing. So she can disarm nuclear bombs, ironically in the movie, she didn't disarm a thing. Denise Richards is just not convincing as a nuclear physicist. What they needed was a older, more mature actress in the part.

Action wise, TWINE delivers, but there is something about the ski chase that seems tired and repetitive. Perhaps it is David Arnold's lackluster score. As for the caviar factory with the helicopter and the hanging buzzsaws, we have Bond running this way, that way, up and down..... why don't he just get the hell out of there?

The title-sequence, which centered around the oil motif started out great...but Daniel Kleinmann, unlike Maurice Binder before him, jam too much into the screen at once and you don't know where to look. Binder before him, have the audience concentrate on one image at a time.

Compare to all the dvd of other Bond films,the extra features on the TWINE Dvd is rather sparse. There are some trailers, an interview with Brosnan, and some other extras, like how the title sequence is shot, are included, but have no commentary.

Overall, TWINE is a pretty good picture, helped enormously by French actress Sophie Marceau. I just love that sick expression on her face when she took her earring off and reveal to Bond how psycho she can be. Robert Carlyle is okay as Renard, but I would much like it if they cut down on the melodrama. As for Brosnan, he shines as Bond. I hope he would make more. Three pictures are not enough.

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Summary: One of the best
Review: Pierce is my favorite James Bond and this is my favorite film of his so far. I've been a bond fan since '77 and can't wait for the new film. Great soundtrack and great theme song by Garbage. I didn't care for the villian too much but the rest of the film makes up for him.

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Summary: Unexplored Bond
Review: Infrequently in an action film series does one of its entries attempt to deal with the persona of its hero with equal intensity as it handles its plot. The director of this film tried to show how James Bond develops an obsession for a woman for whom he has become intrigued with, her having been mistreated by British Intelligence, and the effect it has on him. Unfortunately this idea never really comes satisfactorily to fruition, as the essential plot elements are not fully explored. They are forsaken at the expense of some unimaginative action sequences and a protracted additional love interest in the form of Dr. Christmas Jones. All that being said, Pierce Brosnan really has the part of James Bond down to an art and science despite the flaws in the script.