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World Is Not Enough, The
MGM / UA
FILM:
MPAA RATING: PG-13 for intense sequences of action violence, some sexuality and innuendo
Starring
Pierce Brosnan,
Sophie Marceau,
Denise Richards,
Robert Carlyle,
and
Judi Dench
Bond (Brosnan), feeling responsible for the death of a British oil tycoon friend, takes the position as bodyguard to the daughter (Marceau) of the slain man, while trying to catch his killer.
| GENRE(S): |
Suspense/Thriller
|
| WRITTEN BY: |
Neal Purvis (also story)
Robert Wade (also story)
Bruce Feirstein
|
| DIRECTED BY: |
Michael Apted
|
| RELEASE DATE: |
DVD: May 16, 2000
Video: May 16, 2000
Theatrical: November 19, 1999
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| RUNNING TIME: |
128 minutes, Color |
| ORIGIN: |
USA / UK |

All critic scores are converted to a 100-point scale. If a critic does not indicate a score, we assign a score based on the general impression given by the text of the review. Learn more...
88
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert
A splendid comic thriller, exciting and graceful, endlessly inventive.

83
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
William Arnold
Despite a few places where the air of déjà vu is a bit too thick, it's a class act, with a textured script, one of the series' more stunning title sequences.

80
Film.com
Tom Keogh
Puts the Bond film series (this one makes number 19)-- back on track by stressing the fundamentals and applying a bit of authentic drama for a change.

80
Dallas Observer
Andy Klein
Whatever its flaws -- and it has some lulus -- it's a textbook model for how to structure action of this kind.

75
San Francisco Chronicle
Mick LaSalle
A thoroughly satisfying, completely entertaining film that's also, rather surprisingly, an emotionally full experience.

75
New York Daily News
Jack Mathews
That's what Bond is all about -- dazzle, some really bad puns and the kind of sexy fun that satisfies high-school urges while masquerading in tux and tails.

75
USA Today
Andy Seiler
Fans will appreciate not only that the film is predictably solid and surprisingly sharp but that parts of it are just plain bad.

75
Chicago Tribune
Michael Wilmington
There's the script -- and that's the problem.

75
Miami Herald
Howard Cohen
You can't beat a Bond film for adventure on a grand scale.

75
New York Post
Jonathan Foreman
Comes closer to what a Bond movie should be and once was.

70
LA Weekly
John Patterson
The formula, with its comforting arrangement of familiar elements, is what we're after, and The World Is Not Enough certainly comes through on that front.

70
Film.com
Sean Means
Isn't quite enough to save the Bond franchise -- but it does prove that 007 is Y2K-compliant.

70
Los Angeles Times
Kevin Thomas
Not enough to add up to a fully satisfying movie.

67
Portland Oregonian
Shawn Levy
Apted ("Gorillas in the Mist," "Coal Miner's Daughter") keeps things low-key and low-tech, which makes some of the cliched Bondisms a bit easier to swallow.

63
Charlotte Observer
Lawrence Toppman
Fair, overlong James Bond from the second shelf.

63
Boston Globe
Jay Carr
This 19th Bond installment is passable, but only just.

63
Baltimore Sun
Chris Kaltenbach
The movie's already peaked, even before the opening credits.

63
Philadelphia Inquirer
Carrie Rickey
Spoofing James Bond in the '90s may lack an original comic bite, but making James Bond in the '90s is positively toothless.

60
Variety
Todd McCarthy
007 is undone by villainous scripting and misguided casting and acting in a couple of key secondary roles.

60
Chicago Reader
Jonathan Rosenbaum
This keeps one reasonably amused, titillated, and brain-dead for a little over two hours.

60
Newsweek
Andrea C. Basora
There still is enough tightly staged action and sly humor to earn this latest installment a memorable place in Bond canon.

60
The New York Times
Janet Maslin
In his third and most comfortable effort to model the Bond mantle, Pierce Brosnan bears noticeably more resemblance to a real human being.

50
Salon.com
Charles Taylor
If Bond long ago became part of your fantasy life or your pop iconography, then the anticipation of a good Bond movie would probably survive even if The World Is Not Enough were worse than it is.

50
San Francisco Examiner
Wesley Morris
The World Is Not Enough, like a 19th version of anything, is inanely self-parodic. So much so that one wonders why Austin Powers need have bothered in the first place.

50
Entertainment Weekly
Lisa Schwarzbaum
The hero himself has been denatured for a young, late 1990s audience with little appreciation for real suavity or sex play.

50
Slate
David Edelstein
The movie is better than you've heard, although that's not saying a lot.

50
Christian Science Monitor
David Sterritt
If moviegoers really thought about the violence, sexism, and materialism at the core of the series, the whole shebang might vanish overnight.

50
Washington Post
Stephen Hunter
The new Bond movie is pure nonsense art of the dadaist school; it follows the rules of the ridiculous as it turns narrative convention, thriller formula and special-effects set pieces into a manifesto of the purest gibberish.

50
Village Voice
Dennis Lim
Makes the strongest case for retirement since late-period Roger Moore.

45
TNT RoughCut
Christopher Brandon
James Bond hasn't been this boring since Timothy Dalton carried the license to kill.

40
TV Guide
Maitland McDonagh
Bond spends an awful lot of time being rescued from peril by supporting characters.

40
Austin Chronicle
Marjorie Baumgarten
Solid 007 entertainment -- not as bad as some of the recent Bonds but not as spunky as some of the series' originals.

19
Mr. Showbiz
Cody Clark
If you're desperate for a James Bond fix, skip the movie and blow your 007 bucks on a copy of the soundtrack.


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