The World Is Not Enough Review

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DixieKong said:

Like Tomorrow Never Dies, The World is Not Enough is what I would consider just another okay modern Bond movie, that I'll only watch every once in a while. The Bond films that follow afterwards, are the ones that I can no longer tolerate.

With The World is Not Enough, the producers tried to experiment by adding more in-depth story/characters , but in the end, it was executed rather poorly. Renard could have been a pretty good villain, but the poor execution ruined it. Most of the time I forgot that he couldn't feel pain, and on top of that, he doesn't get enough screen time.

Now in regards to Brosnan, I think he had the potential to be a good James Bond, if it wasn't for the producers constantly performing their lame experiments. This has been an ongoing issue since Roger Moore left the role of Bond, and is one of the big reasons why I hold A View To A Kill so close to my heart. Since that time, the Bond series has never been the same afterward. It was the end of the old-school era of Bond, and the beginning of a tradition of constantly tinkering with the character, tone, and focus of the films. First, there was the more serious and realistic Dalton Bonds. When this didn't work, the producers decided to go back to the Moore/Connery formula for Brosnan's first Bond outing, GoldenEye. This worked out very well, but unfortunately, it was never built upon. Instead, the producers decided to turn Brosnan into Rambo in a tux for the next film. Then in the next film, they decided that they should perhaps make him a more deeper and emotional character. And for his final Bond film, they just decided to make him a crazy cartoon character. And then there's the Craig Bond films, which I'm not going to get into right now.

Since Roger Moore's departure, there has been three actors to play Bond. Each has such a different take and feel, that it's almost like three different film series with a common theme and character name. They seem so disconnected from each other, that it keeps me from really getting into the series before it's changed up again.

By the way, Amp, what's up with your comment about Brosnan being a "Roger Moore Lite"? Are you poking fun at Roger Moore, one of my favourite James Bonds, again?

I was actually not poking fun at Roger Moore at all.  I was doing it with Brosnan.  If you look at the thread, I made three comparisons between Brosnan and Moore with me taking Moore's side every time.  I am sick and tired of hearing about how Brosnan is such a good Bond and that he has the positive characteristics of both Connery and Moore because he doesn't.  Roger was very good at playing the lighter and humorous side of 007.  My point was that Brosnan also tries to do so and fails miserably in my opinion.  The only time that I poke fun at Roger was becasue he was far too old at the end of his run.  Truth be told, I think that The Spy Who Loved Me is one of the best Bond films ever.