1999 Directed by Michael Apted
Greed, revenge, world dominance and high-tech terrorism – it's all in a day's work for Bond, who's on a mission to protect a beautiful oil heiress from a notorious terrorist. In a race against time that culminates in a dramatic submarine showdown, Bond works to defuse the international power struggle that has the world's oil supply hanging in the balance.
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Easily the best Brosnan entry, with superb late-analog setpieces (courtesy 2nd unit master Vic Armstrong), some welcome goofball jokes and, despite repeated half-assed attempts over the years, one of the few to lend Bond some genuine personal stakes (his pre-credits wounding, the contentious relationship with M, and the terrorist with a grudge against her all prefigure SKYFALL, another example in a long line of this franchise recycling and refining story ideas). It also directly addresses the series' intrinsic misogyny if you're into that sort of thing, especially in a terrific scene where 007 mansplains Elektra's own sexual trauma to her and she responds by shaming him for basically recapitulating her assault for his own purposes (of course, in unpleasantly tantalizing…
Though it has never been on the receiving end of a lot of love, "The World is Not Enough" is definitely deserving. Featuring Pierce Brosnan at his most urbane and, for better or worse, memorable supporting characters, Michael Apted's entry in the venerable James Bond franchise easily thrills and entertains. It is a sleek and raucous action film with no shortage of fun.
The story is standard issue Bond: the Commander is charged with protecting an heiress, deterring terrorists, and, once again, saving the Empire. Allying himself with old friends and new distractions, Bond embarks on a series of adventures that find him coming face-to-face with his own, and others,' mortality. Bond, himself, runs into a fair amount of peril…
THE WORLD IS NOT ENOUGH is one of those “better than the sum of its parts” movies. I don’t think it’s as bad as its rep, there’s a lot that’s stupid and clunky with plenty of cheese, but it works as a whole. Some really good action set pieces. Brosnan is a great 007 and Sophie Marceau is a wickedly fun as Electra King. Robert Carlyle is a boring villian & Denise Richards' is miscast, but the issue was both characters for the most part aren't even fleshed out & are entirely just there as a plot device. It's kinda visual bland at times, Brosnan's first two films were shot better.
This one is the last Bond movie to have Desmond Llewelyn play Q before his death and him disappearing into the floor hits me right in the feels.
Fuera de Serie: Bond, James Bond - The International Spy, The Icon & The Once Serial Women Beater
In the previous installment, we saw the new phase of Agent 007 with Pierce Brosnan at the front going for a more campy tone with the villains' plans becoming just as outrageous as some of those during Roger Moore's tenure. Those films, however, were always a bit serious, less focused on the humorous than on the action scene set pieces and Brosnan's increasingly suave performance. And to some extent this carries on in this third Pierce film as James Bond, but at the same time we have John Cleese as a buffoon, Coltrane playing a Bond frenemy who seems to be straight out…
100-word review: Bond's mission is to protect oil heiress Elektra King from terrorists and rivalling pipeline-builders, but power relations aren't as they're made out to be. The poster of The World Is Not Enough promised not one, but two red-headed Bond girls; turns out that's just 90s lighting. All we get is a final scene that trumps even Licence to Kill in terms of cringe-worthiness. Besides the usual 'women trouble', the nineteenth James Bond features plenty of entertaining action sequences, though less directed than in its predecessor. My least favourite Brosnan (Die Another Day still to come).
The first Bond film I ever saw at the cinema, and another one I didn't remember a whole lot about other than Robert Carlyle and pipelines.
It creeps up on you from the off. Five minutes in and I thought to myself, "Blimey, this is a low-key start for a Bond film", but it's 15 minutes in when the credits begin playing that you realise you've just had your breath taken away for the past 10 minutes. It's a really brilliant set piece where 007 chases an assassin across the Thames and through the London streets (and restaurants) via his - as Q points out - unfinished prototype speedboat/batmobile. As it ended with Bond clinging on for dear life on…
“There's no point in living if you can't feel alive.”
The World Is Not Enough is surprisingly decent and far more interesting than some previous entries in the series; not necessarily one of my favourites but manages to at least be entertaining enough with some cool action scenes and fun appearances from Robert Carlyle and Robbie Coltrane. It might still be just a little too generic, but I’ve endured far worse from this franchise so far, and even if only by comparison it’s kind of alright.
Theme Song: The World is Not Enough - Garbage
I like this one a lot actually; sounds very Bond-esque with really great vocals.
I miss the movie magic of yore, when studio bigwigs spent money trying to make us believe a man with no pain receptors could NOT die of a horrifying infection and Denise Richards could be a nuclear physicist.
Six years ago a friend told me that she doesn't wear striped clothes because stripes make people look bigger because of its design. I looked it up on the internet and was blown away by this fact being true. Who knew that wearing a striped shirt gives the illusion of looking bigger.
So I pretty quickly came up with the genius invention Crotched (patent pending) which is a pair of jeans with a striped pattern over your crotch to give the illusion that you have a massive package. I have thrown this invention out to a few people and they never seem impressed but mark my words, in the next 20 years this will be a thing.
How does this…
Simultaneously better and worse than I remember it.
It’s got big set pieces and yet feels somehow so dry and dumb. The Brosnan era had so much promise after Goldeneye but ultimately the subsequent scripts fall flat. It’s a step forward for the franchise but not far enough.
Denise Richards is famously horrible in this, but Sophie Morceau isn’t much better. While she’s a great actress, the character fails to land whatsoever.
It’s hard to deny the scale of what they were trying to accomplish, yet bad production design shines through occasionally. The scene after the pipe explosion looks straight out of a b movie, with pieces of shrapnel and tree branches placed evenly apart.
An interesting entry in the franchise, and one where you feel they’re learning from some but not all of their past mistakes.
