Fans will appreciate not only that the film is predictably solid and surprisingly sharp but that parts of it are just plain bad.
The World Is Not Enough
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United Kingdom, United States · 1999
Rated PG-13 · 2h 8m
Director Michael Apted
Starring Pierce Brosnan, Sophie Marceau, Robert Carlyle, Denise Richards
Genre Action, Adventure, Thriller
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Greed, revenge, world dominance, and high-tech terrorism – it's all in a day's work for Bond, who is 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.
What are people saying?
What are critics saying?
TNT RoughCut by Christopher Brandon
James Bond hasn't been this boring since Timothy Dalton carried the license to kill.
Christian Science Monitor by David Sterritt
If moviegoers really thought about the violence, sexism, and materialism at the core of the series, the whole shebang might vanish overnight.
You can't beat a Bond film for adventure on a grand scale.
Chicago Reader by Jonathan Rosenbaum
This keeps one reasonably amused, titillated, and brain-dead for a little over two hours.
Charlotte Observer by Lawrence Toppman
Fair, overlong James Bond from the second shelf.
Entertainment Weekly by Lisa Schwarzbaum
The hero himself has been denatured for a young, late 1990s audience with little appreciation for real suavity or sex play.
Chicago Tribune by Michael Wilmington
There's the script -- and that's the problem.
Isn't quite enough to save the Bond franchise -- but it does prove that 007 is Y2K-compliant.
Portland Oregonian by Shawn Levy
Apted ("Gorillas in the Mist," "Coal Miner's Daughter") keeps things low-key and low-tech, which makes some of the cliched Bondisms a bit easier to swallow.
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