“The World Is Not Enough” is not the best James Bond movie of all time, suffering from mediocre writing and uneven performances, but is saved by the generous amount of action sequences. Credit and blame goes to director Michael Apted (“Cole Miner’s Daughter” 1980) and screenwriters Neal Purvis, Robert Wade, and Bruce Feirstein.
The supporting cast demonstrates mixed results, with the weakest performance coming from Denise Richards playing Christmas Jones, a nuclear scientist assisting 007. She is one of the least appealing Bond women ever. Poor casting choice here. Others include Sophie Marceau, Robert Carlyle, Robbie Coltrane, Serena Scott Thomas, Maria Grazia Cucinotta, Colin Salmon, Michael Kitchen, Ulrich Thomsen, John Seru, Patrick Malahide, and Claude-Oliver Rudolph.
Returning regulars include Judy Dench as M, the chief of MI6. She frequently ventures into the field, unlike her predecessors. Desmond Llewelyn makes his seventeenth and final appearance as Q, quartermaster of the MI6 gadget lab, who was preparing for retirement. John Cleese guest stars as his designated successor R. (Llewelyn unexpectedly passed away shortly after the film’s premier.) Samantha Bond also returns as Miss Moneypenny.
Producers Michael G. Wilson and Barbara Broccoli have kept the James Bond franchise running more or less successfully, since taking over from their father Albert “Cubby” Broccoli in 1995. The watchable “The World Is Not Enough” is the 19th Eon Productions 007 project, a success at the box office. This is the first Bond movie to be released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, instead of United Artists, the original distributor, acquired by MGM.
The World Is Not Enough (1999)
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My Review
“The World Is Not Enough” is not the best James Bond movie of all time, suffering from mediocre writing and uneven performances, but is saved by the generous amount of action sequences. Credit and blame goes to director Michael Apted (“Cole Miner’s Daughter” 1980) and screenwriters Neal Purvis, Robert Wade, and Bruce Feirstein.
The supporting cast demonstrates mixed results, with the weakest performance coming from Denise Richards playing Christmas Jones, a nuclear scientist assisting 007. She is one of the least appealing Bond women ever. Poor casting choice here. Others include Sophie Marceau, Robert Carlyle, Robbie Coltrane, Serena Scott Thomas, Maria Grazia Cucinotta, Colin Salmon, Michael Kitchen, Ulrich Thomsen, John Seru, Patrick Malahide, and Claude-Oliver Rudolph.
Returning regulars include Judy Dench as M, the chief of MI6. She frequently ventures into the field, unlike her predecessors. Desmond Llewelyn makes his seventeenth and final appearance as Q, quartermaster of the MI6 gadget lab, who was preparing for retirement. John Cleese guest stars as his designated successor R. (Llewelyn unexpectedly passed away shortly after the film’s premier.) Samantha Bond also returns as Miss Moneypenny.
Producers Michael G. Wilson and Barbara Broccoli have kept the James Bond franchise running more or less successfully, since taking over from their father Albert “Cubby” Broccoli in 1995. The watchable “The World Is Not Enough” is the 19th Eon Productions 007 project, a success at the box office. This is the first Bond movie to be released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, instead of United Artists, the original distributor, acquired by MGM.