Pierce Brosnan, Sophie Marceau, Denise Richards and Robert Caryle
007 is Back, but This Time He is Sleeping With Women Half His Age... Oh wait, That is Every Time.
That's right, James Bond is back for all of you Bond-o-philes. And he brought along all of the aspects you love in a Bond movie... sexy women with stupid names who are half his age but still want hime, an odd villian with a not so intricate plan to be foiled by our hero, cool gadgets (actually there aren't that many of them in this one), and stupid one liners (the staple of any Bond film). This is the nineteenth Bond film in the movie series that will never die, and it is pretty much the same as every other. Luckily for Bond, the formula has been working for so long that it has become part of our culture. If you were looking for a great innovation in motion pictures, well you were stupid... but if you like the other Bond movies, you will like The World Is Not Enough.
The suave James Bond (Pierce Brosnan) and his gadgetman Q (Desmond Llewlen)
MI6 Secret Agent 007, James Bond (Pierce Brosnan, The Thomas Crown Affair, Tommorrow Never Dies, Goldeneye) is doing his typical secret agent stuff when he finds out that an international terrorist named Renard (Robert Carlyle, The Full Monty, Trainspotting) is going after Elektra King (Sophie Marcea, Lost & Found, Braveheart), the daughter of a friend of M (Judi Dench, Shakespeare in Love, Tommorrow Never Dies), the head of MI6. So M sends Bond to protect Elektra (stupid sexy woman's name number 1) from Renard. Of course Bond, in his typical horny fashion sleeps with Elektra and then leaves to investigate what Renard is really up to. He is then finds out Renard is trying to steal a nuclear warhead (why he doesn't know yet), and while trying to stop Renard Bond meets Dr. Christmas Jones (Denise Richards, Drop Dead Gorgeous, Wild Things, Starship Troopers), a nuclear scientist. We later find out that Elektra and Renard were actually working together, and so does M after she is captured by Elektra's henchmen (another Bond staple, you have to have henchmen). Along with Christmas (stupid sexy woman's name number 2) Bond discovers that Elektra and Renard are working together and plan to use the warhead along with a nuclear submarine to blow up some city, which will for some reason help Elektra's business (it is explained in the movie, but it really doesn't matter for a Bond movie now does it?) Predictably, while they are trying to stop Renard and Elektra, Bond and Christmas are captured and nearly killed and we are wondering how the heck they are going to stop Renard, and when Bond and Christmas are going to get it on, and more importantly why Christmas would want to get it on with someone who is 30 years older than her, like Bond.
It looks like Christmas (Denise Richards) came early for Bond this year
As I said from the begining, The World Is Not Enough is pretty much exactly the same as each of the eighteen previous Bond films. Bond does his suave spy stuff and says his stupid one liners and all of the women through themselves all over him, and then he foils the villians plan and disappears with the girl... until the next movie when he drops her like a bad habit. The acting is pretty good, considering how stupid the premises usually are, and the effects, as usual, are really spectacular. The characters are original, to a point but they still all fit into the regular Bond mold and it is all wrapped up into a couple of hours. Now, my opinion will definitely differ from hard core Bond fans' (and I know there are a lot of you), and from the opinion of people who hate the Bond movies (I know there are a lot of you too)... but I see nothing spectacular or special about The World Is Not Enough compared to, say, Tommorrow Never Dies or Goldfinger (which is my personal favorite Bond movie). And although Bond 19 is a good movie, unless you are a hard core Bond fan, or just really like movies (like me), I would recommend you save your money and wait until it comes out on video. If you need to get your Bond fix until then, just check out the "15 Days of 007" on the Superstation... they are all about the same anyway.
