With Skyfall dropping in theaters in just a over a month, along with the 50th anniversary of the James Bond series, a close friend and fellow film nerd, Brandon Peters, has generously offered to do a comprehensive review of the entire 007 film franchise. Today is the eighteenth entry, with a full review of Tomorrow Never Dies. I hope you enjoy what is a pretty massive feature leading up the November 9th release of Skyfall. I'll do my best to leave my two-cents out of it. But just because I'm stepping aside doesn't mean you should. Without further ado...
Tomorrow Never Dies
1997
Director: Roger
Spottiswoode (of Terror Train fame!)
Starring: Pierce
Brosnan, Michelle Yeoh, Jonathan Pryce, Teri Hatcher, Judi Dench
Rated PG-13
When you remove Mr.
Bond’s heart, there should be just enough time for him to watch it stop
beating.
~Elliot Carver
STATS
Kills: 25 (estimate)
Girls: Paris Carver,
Wai Lin
Car: BMW 7 Series,
Bond’s casual ride is still the Aston Martin
Locales: Russia,
Hamburg, China
Odd Villain Trait:
Stamper, another Red Grant but trained in Chakra torture
Song: “Tomorrow Never
Dies” performed by Sheryl Crow
Other notable song:
“Surrender” performed by kd Lang
GoldenEye’s follow
up film, Tomorrow Never Dies, was a
studio rush job in trying to cash in the restored success of the 007 series. The production seemed to be a mess, starting
off with an incomplete script. It’s
surprising as none of that seems to translate to the final product. It’s not the best of the series, but seems to
float on the better side of the middle ground like For Your Eyes Only. Tomorrow Never Dies
features media mogul Elliot Carver trying to start WWIII between China and the
UK. He has a stealth ship in which he
initially uses to sink a British battleship.
James Bond is sent in to investigate Carver, looking to gather
information from his ex-flame and wife of Carver, Paris. Bond also stumbles upon a Chinese agent, Wai
Lin who is also investigating Carver.
The two team up to uncover and stop Carver.
