The low point of the Bond series
Added 2/4/2010
If you loved the Sean Connery Bond movies, and the Roger Moore Bond movies, you'll be very disappointed with this one. The earlier Bond films, up to and including Licence to Kill, didn't just rely on special effects, explosions and lots of gunfire: they had plots, and they told a story clearly. (They also had attractive, sexy women.) Decay started with Goldeneye, perhaps because Albert Broccoli was no longer involved in production, and by the time we come to 'The World is Not Enough', the emphasis is clearly on explosions, flames, gunfire, and destruction. There is a story, which you can just about follow; but telling the story takes a back seat to filling the air with bullets, and surrounding Bond with the kind of flame-filled explosion popularized by the 1991 movie 'Backdraft'. Of course, in some of the earlier movies, Bond was occasionally near enough to explosions to be put out of action - he had some implausible escapes; but in 'The World is Not Enough' there is no attempt at realism. Every few minutes Bond walks, runs, or jumps out of explosions that would have reduced him to charred scraps.
Brosnan does his best, and he's a good actor, but good acting is wasted in a movie like this; he's literally outgunned; the real stars are the bangs, flames and gunfire. If that's what you like, you'll like this movie.
Bond's close encounters with the uniformly unattractive female characters aren't sexy, erotic, or romantic: they're just embarrassing. It's sad that a series that started with Ursula Andress and went on to Diana Rigg, Barbara Bach, Kristina Wayborn, etc should have come down to this level.
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It's Bond, it's action, it's fun
Added 1/28/2010
Sir Robert King (David Calder) a rich oil tycoon and a friend of Bond is dispatched at MI6. Now Bond inherits the job of protecting King's daughter Elektra (Sophie Marceau) but what evil plot is he protecting her from? And will he succeed?
This is a formula Bond movie. It has all the toys and witticisms that make it Bond. You may have to get over Denise Richards' stereotype as the bug lady from "Starship Troopers" (1997). Good use of Judi Dench as M. I will always think of the real thing looking like her. Anyway the movie has all the twists and turns necessary to keep you guessing until the end. Each Bond actor brings with him a unique acting style and each is Bond.
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Buen video de Bond
Added 12/28/2009
Muy buen video, excelentes escenas.
Si eres coleccionista de las peliculas de bond, esta es una que no debe faltar en tu videoteca.
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Not Enough 007
Added 12/21/2009
This not one of the well known Bond films. Pierce Brosnan mostly succeeds as the suave 007 and brings a different take on Bond. Judi Dench is in her element as the head of Brit Intel and their are enough gadgets to keep Bond ahead of the enemy. One for Bond completists.
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really less than realistic
Added 10/25/2009
What got me was the handling of weapons grade plutonium with bare hands.
Mostly you have to have a clean room with something like leaded glass
and a waldo to handle this kind of radiation hazard.
If they did what the film showed, they would be dead very quickly.
Other than that it is an ordinary bond film.
But this kind of mistake in technical things makes
me wonder how much other stuff is totally fake as well?
Somebody is may believe they can handle weapons grade stuff like this and die?
Don't try these stunts at home type of thing...Only after the
cold war is over could anyone believe this?
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The low point of the Bond series
Added 2/4/2010
If you loved the Sean Connery Bond movies, and the Roger Moore Bond movies, you'll be very disappointed with this one. The earlier Bond films, up to and including Licence to Kill, didn't just rely on special effects, explosions and lots of gunfire: they had plots, and they told a story clearly. (They also had attractive, sexy women.) Decay started with Goldeneye, perhaps because Albert Broccoli was no longer involved in production, and by the time we come to 'The World is Not Enough', the emphasis is clearly on explosions, flames, gunfire, and destruction. There is a story, which you can just about follow; but telling the story takes a back seat to filling the air with bullets, and surrounding Bond with the kind of flame-filled explosion popularized by the 1991 movie 'Backdraft'. Of course, in some of the earlier movies, Bond was occasionally near enough to explosions to be put out of action - he had some implausible escapes; but in 'The World is Not Enough' there is no attempt at realism. Every few minutes Bond walks, runs, or jumps out of explosions that would have reduced him to charred scraps.
Brosnan does his best, and he's a good actor, but good acting is wasted in a movie like this; he's literally outgunned; the real stars are the bangs, flames and gunfire. If that's what you like, you'll like this movie.
Bond's close encounters with the uniformly unattractive female characters aren't sexy, erotic, or romantic: they're just embarrassing. It's sad that a series that started with Ursula Andress and went on to Diana Rigg, Barbara Bach, Kristina Wayborn, etc should have come down to this level.
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It's Bond, it's action, it's fun
Added 1/28/2010
Sir Robert King (David Calder) a rich oil tycoon and a friend of Bond is dispatched at MI6. Now Bond inherits the job of protecting King's daughter Elektra (Sophie Marceau) but what evil plot is he protecting her from? And will he succeed?
This is a formula Bond movie. It has all the toys and witticisms that make it Bond. You may have to get over Denise Richards' stereotype as the bug lady from "Starship Troopers" (1997). Good use of Judi Dench as M. I will always think of the real thing looking like her. Anyway the movie has all the twists and turns necessary to keep you guessing until the end. Each Bond actor brings with him a unique acting style and each is Bond.
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Buen video de Bond
Added 12/28/2009
Muy buen video, excelentes escenas.
Si eres coleccionista de las peliculas de bond, esta es una que no debe faltar en tu videoteca.
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