Octopussy (1983)
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James Bond (Roger Moore) may have met his match in Octopussy (Maud Adams), an entrancing beauty...
The World Is Not Enough (1999)
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In Bilbao, Spain, James Bond, meets with a Swiss banker to recover a large sum of money. The banker,...
David McK (3358 KP) rated The World Is Not Enough (1999) in Movies
Aug 21, 2022 (Updated Aug 19, 2023)
Of the four Bond movies that Brosnan starred in - Goldeneye, Tomorrow Never Dies, The World is Not Enough and Die Another Day - this is, generally, my pick for the best (although I keep see-sawing between this one and Goldeneye).
I'll freely admit that the fact that we're supposed to believe Denise Richards is a nuclear physicist is ludicrous (to say the least), but Sophie Marceau's Elektra King more than makes up for it, as does the presence of Robert Carlyle, and even Judi Dench's 'M' who seems somewhat softer, more matriarchal - but still with a backbone of steel - than her later appearances in the Daniel Craig era.
This is the one that also sees Desmond Llewelyn's Q finally bow out of the picture, handing over to John Cleese's 'R' and - for my money - is also the last time Bond was allowed to be, well, fun!
99 Words: You Have Breath for No More Than 99 Words. What Would They Be?
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'If you had breath for no more than 99 words, what would they be?' Liz Gray put this question to 99...
Reconciliation for the Dead
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Fresh from events in Yemen and Cyprus, vigilante justice-seeker Claymore Straker returns to South...
Red Dwarf - Season 1
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It was a script rejected by everyone at the BBC for three years. It starred a poet, an...