DISQUS

Slammerworm · 1 year ago

The villain’s role is that of an evil media magnate, and it would have been wise to have underplayed the role and presented a cold, businesslike protagonist; after all, there was a perfect real-life ‘evil tyrant’ role model in Rupert Murdoch. Instead, Jonathan Pryce hams it up and chews the scenery like he’s the Batman villain of the week (as my Bondsesh mate said; ‘a bit Willy Wonka, isn’t he?’). Michelle Yeoh is attractive enough and well versed in chop-socky moves, but is fed some terrible lines and can’t even carry those off convincingly. And Teri Hatcher? What were they thinking? On the plus side, Brosnan (a very good actor) is allowed some room in which to display emotions other than ‘Goldeneye’s one-size-fits-all steely determination. Unfortunately, no-one he interacts with except M, Moneypenny and Q are capable of returning dialogue with equal acting skills, so he ends up wanting for a worthy foil to bounce off. Moreover, there are frustratingly few such ‘quiet’ scenes amid some extremely overblown (but admittedly exciting) stunts; best was the ‘video game’ car chase. Brosnan was better than in ‘Goldeneye’, but yeah, the movie wasn’t quite as much fun.

kill1991 · 1 day ago

Tomorrow Never Dies is a great Bond Film. For 3 reasons
1.) Bond gets a cool car that resolves in a cool chase like in Goldfinger and The Spy Who Loved Me.
2.) There is the tradition of Henchmen who are Tall, Blonde and Dangerous such as Red Grant (From Russia With Love), Hans (You Only Live Twice), Eric Kriegler (For Your Eyes Only) and Necros (The Living Daylights) which then results in a memorable fight.
3.) Once again resolves in a plot to start World War 3 like in You Only Live Twice, Octopussy and The Living Daylights.