Tomorrow Never Dies

A film by Roger Spottiswoode (USA, 1997),

with Pierce Brosnan, Michelle Yeoh, Jonathan Pryce, Teri Hatcher and Götz Otto.

Bond is back! Let me put this straight: I hate Pierce Brosnan. He just can't act! Besides he seems to think he's so smart, yuck! Yet, Tomorrow Never Dies is much better than Goldeneye: the screenplay is richer (though definitely demagogic: Hollywood managed to find another "in" topic, i.e. media power and high tech stuff), the characters are... well, "deeper", especially the Bond girls, who were just so silly in the previous Bond, and overall the actors -but Pierce Brosnan- are convincing (in spite of Jonathan Pryce's slight overacting too). Oh, by the way, the opening titles are truly terrific and the soundtrack pretty good too. In addition to Sheryl Crow's title song, it's also the whole theme that has been updated the techno way by fashionable artists such as David Arnold or Moby -another clever trick made in Hollywood... Well, to me, Bond has lost the classy cachet from earlier years when Connery, Moore and even Dalton used to embody the most famous secret agent in the world. With Brosnan, you can see from far the wheels of the commercial machine (BMW, Avis, Omega, etc. ). Bond has simply become half a sandwich-man and half another one of those action movie guys; you know: John McLane, Axel Foley, Martin Riggs,...

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