The World Is Not Enough (1999)

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  2 / 10

  The World is Not Enough has a promising (albeit overlong) pre-credit sequence, highlighted by an excellent boat chase. Brosnan gives an intense, focused performance which--at least during the first half of this film--is his strongest to date. Again though, Brosnan can’t salvage a convoluted plot and predictable villain--I suspected Elektra was a heel almost immediately. I’m continually shocked that the creative minds behind these films have no idea how to use Brosnan; he’s a powerful presence, dramatically skilled, and excellent in action scenes, so why is he being fed horrible one-liners like he’s Roger Moore? Close but no cigar? Christmas only comes once a year? It’s embarrassing.
  
  The second half of the film is mostly forgettable. Denise Richards--playing nuclear physicist Dr. Christmas Jones--gives a woeful performance. She can’t even deliver the line, “I’m going out for some air.” The film is well cast otherwise; Sophia Marceau, Robert Carlyle, and Robbie Coltrane inject some life into a very bad script.
  
  This film is a marginal step-up from Tomorrow Never Dies which, while appreciated by me as a viewer, still places The World is Not Enough near the bottom of the series.

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