THE WORLD IS NOT ENOUGH PG-13
Starring Pierce Brosnan, Denise Richards, Sophie Marceau, and Robert Carlyle
Sabrina, our guest, says: ********* (9)
-Warning! I am a 20 year old girl who is quite partial to men with accents.-
What can I say, it was a Bond movie. I'd put it right up there with Goldfinger and Octopussy. Thank goodness that they got away from the whole Women's Lib thing that was laced throughout Goldeneye.
The plot was excellent, the bad guys outstanding. I was actually feeling sorry for Renard, the man with the bullet in his noggin (you'll see why). Pierce just gets better looking with each new Bond installment. When he walked onto that nice big screen, whew. We also got a nice peek into Bond's complex psyche (what a poor messed up guy). An over-all excellent Action Flick. My only complaint... The ski scene was a complete bore to me. Far better ones exist in other Bond movies.
Eric says: ******** (8)
Bond is back! Pierce Brosnan is now fully comfortable as the gadget wielding, woman-seducing, martini-drinking, gambling, quipping superspy. Jumping right into the action from the beginning, we get boat races that aren't contained to water, hot-air balloon hijinx, ski chases, speeding pipeline car bomb de-fusing, nuclear weapons, helicopters with spinning blades, exploding shafts, exploding pipelines, exploding submarines, exploding hot air balloons, exploding money, exploding boats, exploding airborne snowcars, exploding caviar factories, cars with missiles, small speedboats with torpedos, grappling-hook watches, neck-breaking torture devices, gratutious sex, x-ray glasses, scantily clad women, a casino scene, a foreign bad guy, scenes in Turkey ,Azerbajan, Spain...
Nothing new here, but that's fine, as the last two tried to break the mold instead of just filling it with goodies. Denise Richards is Christmas Jones, a nuclear physicist (?) who goes from wearing a Lara Croft-like small green tanktop and tiny shorts to a harlot's dress to a white tanktop in water to a cocktail dress, to, presumably, nothing at all. Sophie Marceau is the good girl/bad girl Elektra King, newly in charge of her father's oil pipeline company. She wears mostly nightgowns that are slit up VERY high and lace tops. Robert Carlyle is super-villain Renard who, like Liam Neeson in "Darkman", can feel nothing in his nerve receptors. Unfortunately, his character is the least fleshed-out.
Getting back to the old formula of the above is golden for this franchise. We want this Bond, not the sensitive, less confident version. Austin Powers was a welcome respite from the last few Bond movies, because he returned to the sensibilties of outlandish scenarios and wide open characters. Now Bond is back on top as International Man of Mystery number 1... ...oops, I mean number 007!
- Just one little thing: towards the end, a submarine that Christmas and Bond are in loses control and crashes to the bottom of the bay. Water starts flying in from everywhere. About 30 seconds after the water has started to flow, Christmas shouts to Bond, "It's flooding!". Thanks for the info.
David says: ********** 8/10
I'm very curious as to whether this review is going to be saved. Yahoo's PageBuilder has it out for me. I'm at work right now, where we have a DSL line,and it took forever for PageBuilder to give an error meesage. After a few tries, Eric comes along, and I swear the program rolls over and starts purring. Meanwhile, the best I get on my computer at home is pure mollasses - I type 50-60 wpm, the program receives 10 wpm. (computer = 200 mHz, 64 mb ram, 4+ gb FREE rom 56 kps v90 modem - not quite a clunker...) AAAARRRGH!!!
OK - technical stuff, that may hint at some of what will occur in the movie...
According to my source (a document prepared by one Thomasov Clansky, that is a Victor 3 sub. However, Dr. Jones' mention that the radiation from the plutonium is not a problem until the enriched, well, you know, is quite false. That stuff is highly radioactive - that means that for any given moment, a relatively significant number of plutonium atoms are decaying into other elements, releasing some combination of Alpha particle (mostly harmless, stopped by a sheet of paper) Beta particles (less harmless, with greater penetrating power, and Gamma radiation (the thick lead sheilding around modern nuclear reactors must be replaced every so often because of molecular damage. The Oakland Tribune recently ran an article about cancerous side effects of low level long term radiation exposer by patient receiving X-Rays. Cancer - Hah! See what happens if you were to drop a small chunk of enriched weapons grade plutonium under your pillow! Worse, it's clear that the writers of the script are aware of at least part of this - at the weapons facility where we first meet Dr. Jones, everyone is completely suited up. Come on Hollywood!!!
Ok, I gotta go pretend to earn a living here. Back soon!
our review of its preview:
THE WORLD IS NOT ENOUGH:
007 returns in the guise of Pierce Brosnan in the newest Bond explosion-o-rama. This time "Wild Things" and "Starship Troopers" actress Denise Richards is a Bond Babe doing her thing as 007 tries to kill a baddie who, due to a bullet in the brain, feels no pain. Looks about like the last two in the series.