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 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…

"Revenge is not hard to fathom for a man who believes in nothing."

A perfectly serviceable mission, one where solid filmmaking and a steady, albeit imperfect, script manage to hold off the dampening flaws for much of the runtime. The World Is Not Enough sees 007 in yet another race against the clock as a madman terrorizes an oil heiress' ambitions with nuclear threat following a mysterious assassination. Now it's up to the agent to thwart this sinister scheme and bring balance to a rapidly destabilizing world.

Brosnan holds the suave ferocity that his brand of Bond thrives off of, especially given the emotional stakes of the narrative here. Robert Carlyle is decent fun as the villainous Renard, though he…

Nobody ranks Bond better for Bond-a-thon

I'm seriously playing catch up now, desperate to see in the last couple of the films with the rest of the Bond-a-thon crew. I'm going to try and keep the next two Brosnan reviews brief. I seem to suck at that but let's give it a go!

For me The World is Not Enough is possibly the most frustrating Bond film. At its core it has one of the most interesting villain dynamics of any Bond film. A sexual power play disguised as Stockholm syndrome. Elektra King is elevated far beyond the traditional femme fatale to be our principle ice cold antagonist. It is a stand out turn by Sophie Marceau, pretty much all…

”There's no point living if you can't feel alive.

Denise Richards as a nuclear physicist who is working in the middle of Kazakhstan?! Can you even imagine something more idiotic than that? Worst Bond girl ever if you ask me.

Michael Apted takes control of the Bond franchise and delivers an action-packed yet somewhat mentally disabled movie which seems to be moving back and forth between smartness and stupidity. It has a pretty decent plot, the love/hate relationship between Bond and his “lady friend” offers enough complexity, tension and emotional distress, like any other Bond film it has some very good and convincing action scenes and Pierce Brosnan does his best to portray a complex Bond who has so many…

(James Bond #19) - James Bond, RANKED

Pierce Brosnan's third outing as 007 marks the first occasion in which Neal Purvis and Robert Wade would write for the franchise. Little did they know at the time, but this writing duo would go on to contribute every single Bond film since. That's quite the prolific streak that's only bested by Richard Maibum's contributions in thirteen of these movies. And looking a little more closely at the creatives, this is the third movie in a row in which we have a unique director. The next one has a unique director as well. Did Pierce Brosnan smell bad??

This is Desmond Llewelyn's final appearance as Q and his line about an escape plan…

The World is Not Enough is very easy to watch, and you will proberly enjoy it as long as you don't judge it as a Bond movie. As far as being a James Bond film it's not terrible, I can watch it and enjoy parts, but it is one of my least favorite.

The movie does to a degree have the formula when it comes to the action. A great opening boat chase in the thames and a familiar ski chase, big explosions and beautiful ladies. However the rest falls flat, the villians are forgettable, the plot is murky and uninteresting and the final action sequence felt like a downstep from Tomorrow Never Dies.

Brosnan is okay in the role,…