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The World Is Not EnoughBrosnan's first two outings as 007(Goldeneye and Tomorrow Never Dies) were notable for the effort they made to extend the range of the series - giving Bond a female superior (Dench) and pitching him against the politically correct 90s. By comparison The World Is Not Enough is something of a retreat but it contains all the elements we've come to expect (girls, chases, mad baddies and obsessive punning) in an instalment that's slick, stylish, silly and hugely enjoyable.
This time Bond is given the job of protecting oil baron's daughter Elektra (Marceau) from anarcho-terrorist Renard (Carlyle), a man with a bullet lodged in his brain and consequently immune to physical pain.
As ever, the action is second to none, it opens with a spectacular boat chase down the Thames, there's the obligatory ski chase and a helicopter rotary blade decapitation scene. In hotpants and damp lycra top, Denise Richards is a delightfully unlikely nuclear scientist. John Cleese makes his first appearance as Q's successor R, and also kicking around are Robbie Coltrane's Russian arms dealer and sidekick Goldie. The attempts to humanise Bond are rather shoe-horned in but it's a dynamic piece of pantomime action that adheres to formula.
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