The World Is Not Enough (1999)
Although this isn't either James Bond or Pierce Brosnan's finest hour there's still enough to recommend it.
For every negative there is a positive. Whilst Denise Richards doesn't exactly convince as a nuclear scientist and Sophie Marceau and Robert Carlyle are instantly forgettable villains, the film gains credit for giving Judi Dench's M a larger role, the same goes for Robbie Coltrane's Zukovsky, but it's the film's action set pieces that really capture the imagination. From the high speed chase up the Thames pre-credits sequence to the forest cutting helicopters destroying Zukovsky's caviar factory.
Despite being quite lowly ranked in the Bond canon, this is still a better Bond film than any of Daniel Craig's output bar Casino Royale. In fact Craig's Skyfall borrows so much from this film it should offer it some royalties.
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