The World Is Not Enough |  | Director: Michael Apted
Actors: Pierce Brosnan, Sophie Marceau, Robert Carlyle, Denise Richards, Robbie Coltrane
Studio: MGM (Video & DVD)
Category: DVD
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Format: AC-3, Color, Dolby, DTS Surround Sound, Dubbed, DVD, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
Languages: English (Original Language), Russian (Original Language), English (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled), French (Subtitled), French (Dubbed)
Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Region: 1
Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
Number Of Discs: 1
Running Time: 128 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.1 x 5.4 x 0.6
MPN: DM106644D
UPC: 027616066428
EAN: 0027616066428
ASIN: B000NIBURQ
Theatrical Release Date: November 19, 1999
Release Date: May 22, 2007
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In his 19th screen outing, Ian Fleming's superspy is once again caught in the crosshairs of a self-created dilemma: as the longest-running feature-film franchise, James Bond is an annuity his producers want to protect, yet the series' consciously formulaic approach frustrates any real element of surprise beyond the rote application of plot twists or jump cuts to shake up the audience. This time out, credit 007's caretakers for making some visible attempts to invest their principal characters with darker motives--and blame them for squandering The World Is Not Enough's initial promise by the final reel. By now, Bond pictures are as elegantly formal as a Bach chorale, and this one opens on an unusually powerful note. A stunning pre-title sequence reaches beyond mere pyrotechnics to introduce key plot elements as the action leaps from Bilbao to London. Bond 5.0, Pierce Brosnan, undercuts his usually suave persona with a darker, more brutal edge largely absent since Sean Connery departed. Equally tantalizing are our initial glimpses of Bond's nemesis du jour, Renard (Robert Carlyle), and imminent love interest, Elektra King (Sophie Marceau), both atypically complex characters cast with seemingly shrewd choices, and directed by the capable Michael Apted. The story's focus on post-Soviet geopolitics likewise starts off on a savvy note, before being overtaken by increasingly Byzantine plot twists, hidden motives, and reversals of loyalty superheated by relentless (if intermittently perfunctory) action sequences. Indeed, the procession of perils plays like a greatest hits medley, save for a nifty sequence involving airborne buzz saws that's as enjoyable as it is preposterous. Bond's grimmer demeanor, while preferable to the smirk that eventually swallowed Roger Moore whole, proves wearying, unrelieved by any true wit. The underlying psychoses that propel Renard and Elektra eventually unravel into unconvincing melodrama, while Bond is supplied with a secondary love object, Denise Richards, who's even more improbable as a nuclear physicist. Ultimately, this World is not enough despite its better intentions. --Sam Sutherland
Product Description
After an oil tycoon is murdered at the London headquarters of MI6, James Bond is assigned to protect the dead man's daughter from her father's killer, who once tried to kidnap her for ransom.
Genre: Feature Film-Action/Adventure
Rating: PG13
Release Date: 22-MAY-2007
Media Type: DVD
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 The low point of the Bond series February 4, 2010
njdj
If you loved the Sean Connery Bond movies, and the Roger Moore Bond movies, you'll be very disappointed with this one. The earlier Bond films, up to and including Licence to Kill, didn't just rely on special effects, explosions and lots of gunfire: they had plots, and they told a story clearly. (They also had attractive, sexy women.) Decay started with Goldeneye, perhaps because Albert Broccoli was no longer involved in production, and by the time we come to 'The World is Not Enough', the emphasis is clearly on explosions, flames, gunfire, and destruction. There is a story, which you can just about follow; but telling the story takes a back seat to filling the air with bullets, and surrounding Bond with the kind of flame-filled explosion popularized by the 1991 movie 'Backdraft'. Of course, in some of the earlier movies, Bond was occasionally near enough to explosions to be put out of action - he had some implausible escapes; but in 'The World is Not Enough' there is no attempt at realism. Every few minutes Bond walks, runs, or jumps out of explosions that would have reduced him to charred scraps.
Brosnan does his best, and he's a good actor, but good acting is wasted in a movie like this; he's literally outgunned; the real stars are the bangs, flames and gunfire. If that's what you like, you'll like this movie.
Bond's close encounters with the uniformly unattractive female characters aren't sexy, erotic, or romantic: they're just embarrassing. It's sad that a series that started with Ursula Andress and went on to Diana Rigg, Barbara Bach, Kristina Wayborn, etc should have come down to this level.
 It's Bond, it's action, it's fun January 28, 2010
bernie (Arlington, Texas)
Sir Robert King (David Calder) a rich oil tycoon and a friend of Bond is dispatched at MI6. Now Bond inherits the job of protecting King's daughter Elektra (Sophie Marceau) but what evil plot is he protecting her from? And will he succeed?
This is a formula Bond movie. It has all the toys and witticisms that make it Bond. You may have to get over Denise Richards' stereotype as the bug lady from "Starship Troopers" (1997). Good use of Judi Dench as M. I will always think of the real thing looking like her. Anyway the movie has all the twists and turns necessary to keep you guessing until the end. Each Bond actor brings with him a unique acting style and each is Bond.
Buen video de Bond December 28, 2009
Domingo Flores (Perú)
Muy buen video, excelentes escenas.
Si eres coleccionista de las peliculas de bond, esta es una que no debe faltar en tu videoteca.
 Not Enough 007 December 21, 2009
Samuel Buzzelli (Bridgeville, PA)
This not one of the well known Bond films. Pierce Brosnan mostly succeeds as the suave 007 and brings a different take on Bond. Judi Dench is in her element as the head of Brit Intel and their are enough gadgets to keep Bond ahead of the enemy. One for Bond completists.
 really less than realistic October 25, 2009
R. Bagula (Lakeside, Ca United States)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
What got me was the handling of weapons grade plutonium with bare hands.
Mostly you have to have a clean room with something like leaded glass
and a waldo to handle this kind of radiation hazard.
If they did what the film showed, they would be dead very quickly.
Other than that it is an ordinary bond film.
But this kind of mistake in technical things makes
me wonder how much other stuff is totally fake as well?
Somebody is may believe they can handle weapons grade stuff like this and die?
Don't try these stunts at home type of thing...Only after the
cold war is over could anyone believe this?
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