Tomorrow Never Dies (1997)
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Tomorrow Never Dies Movie Review
Tomorrow Never Dies is a 1997 spy film starring Pierce Brosnan, Michelle Yeoh and Teri Hatcher. It is the 18th entry in the series and a pretty solid, fun flick.
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“The distance between insanity and genius is measured only by success“
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The movie is once again weak in storyline, but this time around, it’s even sillier than your usual Bond plotting. With World War III and most of its turns and plot points, the movie is cartoony and quite silly. But that is your usual James Bond flaw, so I didn’t mind it too much.
This is no ‘Goldeneye’, but it’s still one of the more solid Bond flicks and much better than many of its predecessors. That is thanks to its sheer entertainment value. The action is superbly executed in every single scene and thus the film is exciting and a lot of fun from beginning to end. The underwater sequences are some of the highlights.
The characters are also pretty solid. Paris Carver is pretty good and I liked her relationship with Bond quite a bit. Their scenes are very sexy and the right fit for the main character. Teri Hatcher of Desperate Housewives fame played her and she is definitely memorable in what must have been a pretty big movie role for her.
Pierce Brosnan is excellent per usual and I continue to think that he’s the best Bond since Sean Connery. So good. Jonathan Pryce is solid as the villain and Judi Dench is once again delightfully bitchy in her role of M. As for Michelle Yeoh, her Coronel Wai Lin is wonderful. She is kickass, beautiful, smart and always likable and endearing. The interactions between the two are truly some of the highlights here.
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Tomorrow Never Dies once again is lacking when it comes to locations as nothing here is memorable at all. The film relies on action spectacle too much and although the action is excellent, we are left with less locations than usual which is the problem I also had with the previous film. The dialogue is solid, but the humor is also lacking and almost non-existent.
Tomorrow Never Dies lacks in terms of humor and plotting as the story is silly and unremarkable, but the action scenes are so well executed and thus the film is consistently entertaining to watch. Pierce Brosnan is again terrific in the role and Michelle Yeoh is wonderful as his companion and their interactions are the highlights here.
