Pierce Brosnan Movie:

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		MPAA Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested) Media: DVD

Editorial Review:
In his 19th screen outing, Ian Fleming's superspy is once again caught in the crosshairs of a self-created dilemma: as the longest-running feature-film franchise, James Bond is an annuity his producers want to protect, yet the series' consciously formulaic approach frustrates any real element of surprise beyond the rote application of plot twists or jump cuts to shake up the audience. This time out, credit 007's caretakers for making some visible attempts to invest their principal characters with darker motives--and blame them for squandering The World Is Not Enough's initial promise by the final reel.

By now, Bond pictures are as elegantly formal as a Bach chorale, and this one opens on an unusually powerful note. A stunning pre-title sequence reaches beyond mere pyrotechnics to introduce key plot elements as the action leaps from Bilbao to London. Bond 5.0, Pierce Brosnan, undercuts his usually suave persona with a darker, more brutal edge largely absent since Sean Connery departed. Equally tantalizing are our initial glimpses of Bond's nemesis du jour, Renard (Robert Carlyle), and imminent love interest, Elektra King (Sophie Marceau), both atypically complex characters cast with seemingly shrewd choices, and directed by the capable Michael Apted. The story's focus on post-Soviet geopolitics likewise starts off on a savvy note, before being overtaken by increasingly Byzantine plot twists, hidden motives, and reversals of loyalty superheated by relentless (if intermittently perfunctory) action sequences.

Indeed, the procession of perils plays like a greatest hits medley, save for a nifty sequence involving airborne buzz saws that's as enjoyable as it is preposterous. Bond's grimmer demeanor, while preferable to the smirk that eventually swallowed Roger Moore whole, proves wearying, unrelieved by any true wit. The underlying psychoses that propel Renard and Elektra eventually unravel into unconvincing melodrama, while Bond is supplied with a secondary love object, Denise Richards, who's even more improbable as a nuclear physicist. Ultimately, this World is not enough despite its better intentions. --Sam Sutherland

The World Is Not Enough [Region 2] Reviews:
really less than realistic
2009-10-25 - 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?


The best Brosnan Bond movie.
2009-09-16 - Goldeneye was bad, TND was horrible but The World Is Not Enough was okay! It is not one of the best Bond films but still, it's almost nearly as good as some of the old Bonds! Robert Carlyle was pretty good, Sophie Marceau was surprising, Denise Richards was not a very convincing nuclear technician(but she had other qualities...) and, most important, Pierce Brosnan finally had a chance to be a real James Bond, not is usual Rambo style "secret agent". Garbage did a good job with the theme song(as did Sheryl Crow). Its an okay Bond, and a huge leap away from the last 3 movies.

More than Enough
2009-09-14 - For me, this is one of the great Bond films. The action is great as well as the performances.

Love Brosnan as Bond
2009-09-13 - Though I've enjoyed the later Bond movies starring Daniel Craig, I still think Pierce Brosnan was the better Bond, James Bond. Craig never seems like he's having any fun. Brosnan has the ability to show Bond enjoying himself, while still bringing a more realistic performance to a very non-realistic film genre. When Bond is getting choked to death in some Byzantine torture mechanism, Brosnan makes you feel Bond's pain (even if it is much less pain than a normal person would feel.) This movie is blessed and cursed with one of the best of the "Bond girls" and one of the worst. The beautiful Sophie Marceau plays Bond's love interest in the movie, gorgeous and mysterious. The beautiful Denise Richards plays Dr. Christmas Jones, a nuclear scientist, but the actress just is not up to the job. The World is Not Enough wasn't the best Bond outing with Brosnan, but still one of the better of the series, and one I enjoy rewatching.

The funniest part - Denise Richards trying to act
2009-07-20 - Were it not for the inclusion of Denise Richards in this movie, I would have enjoyed it a [bit] more. One can usually forgive all the characters that are thrown in a Bond film. But I cannot stress enough the unbearable scenes in which Denise Richards opens her pie-hole; as if reading straight from the script with no feeling. She wrecked the entire film.

Not one of the best Pierce Brosnan Bond movies. Especially with the goofy story line of the wacko Renard, who doesn't feel pain. And M, getting involved too closely in the operation, leading to her kidnapping.