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TOMORROW NEVER DIES, in which Bond must match wits with a megalomaniacal media mogul who wants to start World War III so that he can have fresh content for his news sites.
Brosnan Is Back in what feels like the first real color-by-the-numbers Bond movie we've had in some time. We've had a slew of "newness" lately, from a new Bond in Dalton, to a really new plot of Bond going rogue on revenge, to a new Bond in Brosnan, but here we are settled back into the territory of filling in the very standard Mad Libs of what goes into a Bond movie. Brosnan is great again, but once his newness wears off, I just don't find that much interesting about him. He's a good Bond in that he's a good placeholder, but there's nothing uniquely compelling about his portrayal, and you can only enjoy his Irish good looks for so long. I still enjoy them, don't get me wrong.
Jonathan Pryce sets up as a pretty good villain with a quirky personality and a relevant timely evil mission. Even then I got lost a few times in the back end as to the whats and whys and the wait how exactly did this media dude get a super secret stealth ship to stir up salacious shit? Meh, probably not important, just enjoy the ride. Michelle Yeoh is a great Bond girl with some terrific combat scenes, holding her own in the combat arena like no other Bond girl before her.
There are some good scenes. The remote control car chase is a highlight, as is the hotel room scene where the newscaster has pre-recorded what Bond is finding and it's a great WTF moment. But overall the movie feels pretty weak - there's just nothing really compelling tying the fabric of the movie together. Maybe something about how the movie is trying to take itself seriously but is in a perilous middle ground where it can't fully commit to being serious or retaining some of the lighthearted classic Bond elements? It was fine fine fine but the credits couldn't roll fast enough for me.
2 Bonks with 2 women. 52 with 41 updated total.
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