Eon Productions produced the eighteenth James Bond movie – “Tomorrow Never Dies” – and it is as good if not better than most of its venerable 007 predecessors. Director Roger Spottiswoode (“Air America” 1990) and screenwriter Bruce Feirstein have given the old franchise a fresh look with computerized gadgets controlled by a diabolical media mogel bent on starting World War III.
Pierce Brosnan has hit his stride in his second round as double 07. His humor and agility rival that of both Sean Connery and Roger Moore. He has good chemistry with Bond girls Teri Hatcher and Michelle Yeoh. Jonathan Pryce is perfectly cast as the villain Elliot Carver, who does bear some resemblance to real life media titan Rupert Murdock, after whom Carver is modeled.
Gotz Otto, Rick Jay, and Vincent Schiavelli appear as secondary villains trying to best Bond, something they should know will not succeed. Returnees include Samantha Bond as Moneypenny, Judi Dench as M, Joe Don Baker as the CIA contact, and Desmond Llewelyn in his unprecedented seventeenth appearance as Q, the head of the Q Branch, the MI6 department in charge of technology and amazing gadgets. Others include Julian Fellowes, Colin Salmon, Geoffrey Palmer, Nina Young, Colin Stinton, Philip Kwok, Gerard Butler, and Daphne Deckers.
Producers Barbara Broccoli and Michael G. Wilson made their first Bond film after the passing of Albert R. “Cubby” Broccoli, their father and step-father, respectively. “Tomorrow Never Dies’ is indeed a fitting tribute to Cubby Broccoli, who, along with Harry Saltzman, started the James Bond movie franchise so many years ago in 1962 with “Dr. No.” “Tomorrow Never Dies” was a smash hit at the box office for Eon Productions, United Artists, and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.
Tomorrow Never Dies (1997)
cinema
My Review
Eon Productions produced the eighteenth James Bond movie – “Tomorrow Never Dies” – and it is as good if not better than most of its venerable 007 predecessors. Director Roger Spottiswoode (“Air America” 1990) and screenwriter Bruce Feirstein have given the old franchise a fresh look with computerized gadgets controlled by a diabolical media mogel bent on starting World War III.
Pierce Brosnan has hit his stride in his second round as double 07. His humor and agility rival that of both Sean Connery and Roger Moore. He has good chemistry with Bond girls Teri Hatcher and Michelle Yeoh. Jonathan Pryce is perfectly cast as the villain Elliot Carver, who does bear some resemblance to real life media titan Rupert Murdock, after whom Carver is modeled.
Gotz Otto, Rick Jay, and Vincent Schiavelli appear as secondary villains trying to best Bond, something they should know will not succeed. Returnees include Samantha Bond as Moneypenny, Judi Dench as M, Joe Don Baker as the CIA contact, and Desmond Llewelyn in his unprecedented seventeenth appearance as Q, the head of the Q Branch, the MI6 department in charge of technology and amazing gadgets. Others include Julian Fellowes, Colin Salmon, Geoffrey Palmer, Nina Young, Colin Stinton, Philip Kwok, Gerard Butler, and Daphne Deckers.
Producers Barbara Broccoli and Michael G. Wilson made their first Bond film after the passing of Albert R. “Cubby” Broccoli, their father and step-father, respectively. “Tomorrow Never Dies’ is indeed a fitting tribute to Cubby Broccoli, who, along with Harry Saltzman, started the James Bond movie franchise so many years ago in 1962 with “Dr. No.” “Tomorrow Never Dies” was a smash hit at the box office for Eon Productions, United Artists, and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.