Tomorrow Never Dies (1997)'s comments

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chunkylefunga

Pretty average; not as good as Goldeneye.

8 years 5 months ago

There are a lot of things to like about this one, including Michelle Yeoh as a super-competent Chinese agent, hot Teri Hatcher as a Bond girl, Brosnan's cool quips, several cool stunts, a scheme that's at once modern and retro (taking over the world by manipulating the media, yet no mention of the Internet), and oh look, young Hugh Bonneville in a one-line role. I'm less enthusiastic about Jonathan Pryce's cartoony villain - he's wayyy over the top - and the whole enterprise is lost in the final over-long sequence aboard the stealth boat, which is just a lot of shooting (as previously established, these put me to sleep, noise and all) and the death of the villains in the wrong order and with little to no irony. Failing in the last act as it does, it loses all the good will it had accumulated in the first two and I remembered it, justly, as a bust.

8 years 10 months ago

Scratch47

Used to think this was a good Bond film - but now I'm not of that mindset.

13 years 6 months ago

DisneyStitch

This one was originally dead last in my ranking of Brosnan's tenure as Bond, and mostly because I wasn't a fan of Jonathan Pryce as the main baddie. That and the entire villain's plan not being traditional was what really sunk it for me. But time goes by and the more I watch it, the more I start to realize how inventive and ahead of its time it was. The villain's plan seems odd and not so great because at the end of the day it's... realistic. Don't get me wrong, stealth boats, wonky satellites, and Dolph Lundgren lookalikes are the stuff of movies, but when you think about it Carver is not the typical Bond villain in that his main supervillain power is deception. He's more like Bond's very own Professor Moriarty. The overall message of a media mogul playing with people's lives in order to boost mainstream media is honestly a plot that seems more and more timely as society rolls on. His part is overacted and comical, this is true. The movie would have drastically improved with a more subdued and chilling performance, harking to a kind of character who could kill you not with a gun but with the words of a well-published news headline. A lot of potential wasted in the end.

"Words are the new weapons, satellites the new artillery." You just can't ignore how poignant that quote is.

3 years 12 months ago

Earring72

Interesting premise for a JB movie but feels a bit rushed and is light on development and has too much action (good action that is). Its just from action to action setpiece.

Brosnan is good in his second outing and you get everything you want from a good action movie it just doesn''t feel like a james bond movie.

Its entertaining and fun though!

Not one of my favorit Bond movies

8 years 6 months ago

Musanna

For a Bond film it's so-so but for an action film it's quite great.

10 years 3 months ago