This latest Bond outing is certainly filled with its fair share of action, humour, and beautiful women. Brosnan is comfortably fitting into his role at last, and manages to demonstrate a suitable combination of charm and menace at all the correct times.
However, there is something missing. It is almost as though the film lacks some of the vital energy that made romps like Tomorrow Never Dies, The Living Daylights, For Your Eyes Only and Thunderball so fun. For that matter, this film is almost as weak as Goldeneye (which spent more time trying to work out what it was and how to be politically correct than it spent actually being a Bond film). Right from the beginning, parts of the movie seem as though they have been put in because they should be there, rather than because they belong there. For example, the entertaining boat chase at the very beginning is preceded by a very short scene in Spain that only serves to put the timing of the opening credits off.
Although many of the characters are extremely interesting (look for Sophie Marceau as the most complicated Bond girl ever), the film somehow seems overlong, a problem that most of the earlier films never suffered.
All in all, an entertaining movie, but still, something vital is missing in this one. 3.5/5.
However, there is something missing. It is almost as though the film lacks some of the vital energy that made romps like Tomorrow Never Dies, The Living Daylights, For Your Eyes Only and Thunderball so fun. For that matter, this film is almost as weak as Goldeneye (which spent more time trying to work out what it was and how to be politically correct than it spent actually being a Bond film). Right from the beginning, parts of the movie seem as though they have been put in because they should be there, rather than because they belong there. For example, the entertaining boat chase at the very beginning is preceded by a very short scene in Spain that only serves to put the timing of the opening credits off.
Although many of the characters are extremely interesting (look for Sophie Marceau as the most complicated Bond girl ever), the film somehow seems overlong, a problem that most of the earlier films never suffered.
All in all, an entertaining movie, but still, something vital is missing in this one. 3.5/5.