I didn't like it as much as I liked Goldeneye. In fact, I down right hated Tomorrow Never Dies but that's just me.
"Your orders were to shoot that sniper!"
"Stuff my orders! I only kill professionals. That woman didn't know one end of a rifle from the other. Go ahead, tell M. what you want. If he fires me, I'll thank him for it."
I always liked the pre-title sequence, and most of the first half of the film. The latter half I find a bit dull in places - and the final showdown on the stealth boat I don't like. It's a bit too much of generic action with loads of machine guns, and rockets with little style or flair.
I loved David Arnold's score, and enjoyed Jonathan Pryce as well. Also great to see Geoffrey Palmer and Judi Dench on screen together. They are a great combination.
I definitely prefer Goldeneye and The World Is Not Enough, but Die Another Day beats it for the title of worst Brosnan film. Overall, I'd rank it in the bottom third of Bond films.
Not horrible, but just a very generic cliche Bond film. A madman trying to start WW3, been done before nothing special about it. And the fact that it had 2 of the worst Bond girls of all time doesn't help any. Standard plot, standard villain, standard big blond henchman.
Liked it much better than Goldeneye which seemed more like a comic-book-turned-basic-cable movie than a Bond film. The biggest problem was that Tomorrow Never Dies had an unmemorable villain in Jonathan Pryce and a completely dopey Bond girl in Teri Hatcher. But this film had the pace, style, score, and production values that were missing the film before. I wish they would have given Michelle Yeoh more to do as she was a far more interesting Bond girl than we usually get, and I wish that k.d. lang's song would have replaced that awful warbling by Cheryl Crowe.
Liked it much better than Goldeneye which seemed more like a comic-book-turned-basic-cable movie than a Bond film. The biggest problems were that Tomorrow Never Dies had an unmemorable villain in Jonathan Pryce, a completely campy assassin in Kaufmann, and a completely dopey Bond girl in Teri Hatcher. But this film had the pace, style, score, and production values for a fantasy Bond film that were missing from the film before. I wish they would have given Michelle Yeoh more to do as she was a far more interesting Bond girl than we usually get, and I wish that k.d. lang's song would have replaced that awful warbling by Cheryl Crowe.
Of the Brosnan Bonds, this is the only one I can watch repeatedly.
I agree about the higher production values in TND than its predecessor. Still, I don't think that that reduces GE in my estimation. I actually think that the look of GE has a slightly dirty, less glossy look of post Cold War europe which suits the film.
I always liked the pre-title sequence, and most of the first half of the film. The latter half I find a bit dull in places - and the final showdown on the stealth boat I don't like. It's a bit too much of generic action with loads of machine guns, and rockets with little style or flair.
I loved David Arnold's score, and enjoyed Jonathan Pryce as well. Also great to see Geoffrey Palmer and Judi Dench on screen together. They are a great combination.
I definitely prefer Goldeneye and The World Is Not Enough, but Die Another Day beats it for the title of worst Brosnan film. Overall, I'd rank it in the bottom third of Bond films.
This is the problem for me - I actually like the first half of all Brosnan's films (including DAD!) - and then they become slow and in the cases of DAD, TND and TWINE a little irritating after the initial viewing.
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"Stuff my orders! I only kill professionals. That woman didn't know one end of a rifle from the other. Go ahead, tell M. what you want. If he fires me, I'll thank him for it."
I loved David Arnold's score, and enjoyed Jonathan Pryce as well. Also great to see Geoffrey Palmer and Judi Dench on screen together. They are a great combination.
I definitely prefer Goldeneye and The World Is Not Enough, but Die Another Day beats it for the title of worst Brosnan film. Overall, I'd rank it in the bottom third of Bond films.
This is the problem for me - I actually like the first half of all Brosnan's films (including DAD!) - and then they become slow and in the cases of DAD, TND and TWINE a little irritating after the initial viewing.
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