Tomorrow Never Dies
by Roger Spottiswoode
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Actor: Jonathan Pryce, Michelle Yeoh, Pierce Brosnan, Ricky Jay, Teri HatcherDirector: Roger Spottiswoode
Brand: TWENTIETH CENTURY FOX HOME ENT
Writer: Bruce Feirstein
Writer: Ian Fleming
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); English (Original Language); French (Dubbed)
Format: AC-3, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 2.35:1
Running Time: 119 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2007-09-04
Audience Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Studio: MGM (Video & DVD)
DVD Reviews of Tomorrow Never Dies
DVD Review: Weak and tedious. Least interesting Bond film I've seen.
Summary: 2 Stars
This movie is included in the James Bond Ultimate Edition, Volume 4. This was the only movie in the set I had not seen yet. I tried several times to watch it but usually got so bored about thirty minutes into it that I had to cut it off. Finally, after about 4 years and 5 tries, I forced myself to sit through the whole thing. Let me tell ya, it was quite an endurance contest.
TND suffers from several ailments: an uninteresting villain, that villain's bland and incompetent henchman, ridiculously over-the-top action sequences (primarily the helicopter chase of the motorcycle), and a by-the-numbers script full of every Bond cliche in the book. The script seems to have been grown in a laboratory using parts of other Bond movies. Not one original moment or line of dialogue. Everything about it seems stale and familiar. One could argue that the entire franchise itself suffers from that to some degree, but TND is the laziest and most egregious example of it. The script and the action sequences are cut from a cookie-cutter mold.
Perhaps most disappointing was the villain --- Elliot Carver, a media tycoon who doesn't want to take over the world in the traditional way, but rather set it on fire and have the exclusive media rights to report on it. YAWN!!!
Also, Bond films are noted for their spectacular action sequences. This film's early one looks rather low rent. A stealth cruiser unleashes a drill-tipped torpedo to blast through a English Naval destroyer, sink it, and allow the villain's men to dive down to it and steal a nuclear missile. Looked good on paper, I'm sure, but the whole thing looked like it was done on a low effects budget. This kind of effects work may have looked cool in the Seventies, but by this film's release in 1999 the audiences had grown a bit more sophisticated. Too bad for the audience, then.
There is a scene about midway through the film where Bond faces Dr. Kaufman, a professional assassin played by character actor Vincent Schiavelli. The scene must have been played for laughs, because Kaufman is incompetent. Bad idea. It just made a lousy film worse.
Pierce Brosnan looked bored during the entire film. Who could blame him?
Even the franchise's trademark pre-credits sequence was a let-down. It was almost EXACTLY the same one as in the previous Bond film "Goldeneye". Or at least close enough to have a "been there, done that" feel.
Reportedly, the production was a troubled one. They started shooting without a completed script, the principal actors were unhappy with the flat and one-dimensional way their characters were written, there was a bit of animosity between the director and the screenwriter, and the crew -- many of whom had worked on several Bond films -- said that this was the first unhappy experience they'd had on a Bond film. With all those elements mixed in, it is no surprise that TND came out to be such a flat and lifeless affair.
If this were a rotten film, there might at least be some kind of entertainment value in that alone. Sometimes bad movies are fun to watch so you can make fun of them as they unspool. But TND is just boring and tepid. It is a real chore to sit through. I can't think of a single reason to ever watch it again.
Because it was so boring, maybe they should have called it "Tomorrow Never Ends".
Want to read some more about what a mess this film was? Read the Wikipedia entry on it.
Description of Tomorrow Never Dies
Pierce Brosnan leaps into action as Agent 007 in this spectacular thrill ride of death-defying stunts and amazing high-tech gadgets. In the most electrifying Bond film yet, the unstoppable action hero must prevent a tremendous disaster ripped from tomorrowÃ"â??s headlines. Someone is pitting the worldÃ"â??s superpowers against each other Ã"â?" and only James Bond can stop it. When a British warship is mysteriously destroyed in Chinese waters, the world teeters on the brink of WWIII Ã"â?" until 007 zeros in on the true criminal mastermind. BondÃ"â??s do-or-die mission takes him to Elliot Carver (Jonathan Pryce), a powerful industrialist who manipulates world events as easily as he changes headlines from his global media empire. After soliciting help from CarverÃ"â??s sexy wife, Paris (Teri Hatcher), Bond joins forces with a stunning yet lethal Chinese agent, Wai Lin (Michelle Yeoh), in a series of explosive chases, brutal confrontations and breathtaking escapes as they race to stop the presses on CarverÃ"â??s next planned news story: global pandemonium! With powerhouse action sequences, including a wild motorcycle pursuit through (and over!) Saigon, Tomorrow Never Dies is a thrilling action-adventure Ã"â??that roars from start to finish with the throttle wide open (Gene Shalit, NBC-TV)!Bestsellers in DVD
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