The World Is Not Enough (1999)
Average Rating: 5.7/10
Reviews Counted: 120
Fresh: 61 | Rotten: 59
Plagued by mediocre writing, uneven acting, and a fairly by-the-numbers plot, The World Is Not Enough is partially saved by some entertaining and truly Bond-worthy action sequences.
Average Rating: 5.8/10
Critic Reviews: 30
Fresh: 18 | Rotten: 12
Plagued by mediocre writing, uneven acting, and a fairly by-the-numbers plot, The World Is Not Enough is partially saved by some entertaining and truly Bond-worthy action sequences.
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Movie Info
James Bond, the world's greatest secret agent, is sent once more into the breach in the name of Queen, Country, and a dry martini. In the 19th Bond adventure, 007 (Pierce Brosnan) must resolve a potentially deadly power struggle between two unstable nations, with control of the world's oil supply as the ultimate prize. Bond is assigned as bodyguard to Elektra King (Sophie Marceau), the daughter of a petroleum magnate who was brutally murdered, and is trying to foil the fiendish plot of Renard
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Cast
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Pierce Brosnan
James Bond -
Sophie Marceau
Elektra King -
Robert Carlyle
Renard -
Denise Richards
Christmas Jones -
Robbie Coltrane
Valentin Zukovsky -
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Maria Grazia Cucinotta
Cigar Girl -
Samantha Bond
Miss Moneypenny -
Michael Kitchen
Tanner -
Colin Salmon
Robinson -
Goldie
Bull -
David Calder
Sir Robert King -
Serena Scott Thomas
Dr. Holly Warmflash -
Ulrich Thomsen
Davidov -
John Seru
Gabor -
Claude-Oliver Rudolph
Colonel Akakievich -
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All Critics (120) | Top Critics (30) | Fresh (61) | Rotten (59) | DVD (23)
The movie is better than you've heard, although that's not saying a lot.
This keeps one reasonably amused, titillated, and brain-dead for a little over two hours.
Sees 007 undone by villainous scripting and misguided casting and acting in a couple of key secondary roles.
Apted ensures it all passes by efficiently enough. And his extraordinarily well staged opening salvo is one of the most impressive Bond sequences yet.
A thoroughly satisfying, completely entertaining film that's also, rather surprisingly, an emotionally full experience.
Familiar and competent, the last Bond film of the millennium adheres to the formula and mostly succeeds in meeting the ritualistic demands of the series.
There's plenty of action and typical Bond elements to be found throughout, but the execution felt a bit generic to me. It also doesn't help that Denise Richards drags the movie down every time she appears on-screen.
Although it sprinkles in a fair amount of character-centred plot, it doesn't really go that far beyond the call of duty. Still, with plenty of the usual Bondage, you can't go far wrong.
One of the worst James Bond movies ever.
Austin Powers seems to have made the Broccolis gun shy about letting Bond have too much fun, lest "World" be mentally lumped alongside an aggressively bawdy parody. Sterile, sluggish and halfheartedly suspenseful, it's the second-worst 007 film ever.
Jiggled, not stirred.
Though in story The World Is Not Enough is not one of the best Bonds, pound for pound it delivers as much thrilling action as any of them. [Blu-ray]
The theme song is performed by Garbage, as the band's name perhaps tells you all you want to know about this thriller.
The latest James Bond flick falls as flat as Tomorrow Never Dies, with decent action sequences and bad soap opera acting.
The film tries very hard, and sometimes the effort pays off, but overall this is a compromised effort that recalls LICENCE TO KILL in the wrong way: it wants to be different but lapses back into the same old, obligatory set pieces.
...ultimately comes off as a superior James Bond adventure...
Brosnan and Carlyle breeze through an upper mid-league Bond that doesn't attempt to fix what isn't broken.
a good flick
Easily the most boring of the Brosnan adventures.
Pierce Brosnan has finally settled into the role of James Bond.
I liked it better than GoldenEye, but not as much as Tomorrow Never Dies.
In his first action flick in a long career, Apted succeeds in both the character stuff and the action scenes. Something had to give, and it's the plot.
Audience Reviews for The World Is Not Enough
Super Reviewer
This is a somewhat lacking entry, but I do dig how the plot revolves around the world's oil supply as being vital to a power struggle between two nations. It's just too bad that the script is rather shoddy and that the film comes off as rather blah overall.
I'm giving it some credit, because it is slick, there's some good action set pieces, and there's a nice ensemble cast, and it definitely is watchable, despite its shortcomings, like being bloated, and the aforementioned Richards.
Super Reviewer
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- Elektra King: I could have given you the world.
- James Bond: The world is not enough.
- Elektra King: Foolish sentiment!
- James Bond: Family motto.
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- Renard: Welcome to my nuclear family.
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- James Bond: So it's a shadow operation?
- M: Just remember that shadows stay in front or behind...never on top.
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- Elektra King: There's no point in living if you can't feel alive.
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