Average Rating: 5.7/10
Reviews Counted: 113
Fresh: 58 | Rotten: 55
This Bond flick focuses a little too much on action, with a plot too weak for the movie's length.
Average Rating: 5.8/10
Critic Reviews: 27
Fresh: 15 | Rotten: 12
This Bond flick focuses a little too much on action, with a plot too weak for the movie's length.
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Average Rating: 3/5
User Ratings: 189,619
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
PG-13, 2 hr. 5 min.
Nov 19, 1999 Wide
May 16, 2000
United Artists
All Critics (114) | Top Critics (27) | Fresh (58) | Rotten (58) | DVD (23)
Sees 007 undone by villainous scripting and misguided casting and acting in a couple of key secondary roles.
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.
A spectacular display of stunts and adrenaline.
The score, by composer David Arnold, is the best in over a decade.
Knotty.
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 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.
Apted ensures it all passes by efficiently enough. And his extraordinarily well staged opening salvo is one of the most impressive Bond sequences yet.
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.
Even with [its] lame dialogue, the film would potentially have been redeemed had Denise Richards not been cast as arguably the worst Bond girl in the entire franchise.
Might be good film, but only for those who haven't seen many Bond films.
Proves that a movie with a formula isn't always a terrible thing. For as long as gorgeous women, sadistic villains and special-effects exist, James Bond lives.
For a movie whose first order of business is chases and explosions and boats and babes, it is not half bad.
Convoluted plotlines, high-tech gadgetry, gross sexism, and stuff blowing up. I have no idea why so many men like this stuff.
This one was better than what the ratings suggest. Check it out and you'll see for yourself.
August 9, 2011Super Reviewer
Pierce's penultimate picture is really nothing all that special, but it's still pretty enjoyable because there are a lot of great action sequences, amid the bad acting.
July 20, 2011Super Reviewer
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