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The World Is Not Enough
Greed, revenge, world dominance and high-tech terrorism – it's all in a day's work for Bond, who's on a mission to protect a beautiful oil heiress from a notorious terrorist. In a race against time that culminates in a dramatic submarine showdown, Bond works to defuse the international power struggle that has the world's oil supply hanging in the balance.
1999 · Directed by Michael Apted · 128 min · Adventure · Action · Thriller · Screenplay in the scene database · 12 frames
Tagline
As the countdown begins for the new millennium there is still one number you can always count on.
Plot
In Bilbao, MI6 agent James Bond meets Swiss banker Lachaise to retrieve money for Sir Robert King, a British oil tycoon and friend of M. Bond interrogates the banker to identify the assassin of an MI6 agent, but Lachaise is killed before revealing this information, and Bond is forced to escape with the money. At MI6 headquarters in London, the money is revealed to be laced with explosives that kill King. Bond chases the assassin by boat on the Thames to the Millennium Dome, where she attempts to escape via hot air balloon. Bond offers her protection; she refuses, fearing he would not be able to protect her, and blows up the balloon at the cost of her life.
Bond traces the recovered money to Renard, a KGB agent turned anarchist terrorist. Following an earlier attempt on his life by MI6, Renard was left with a bullet embedded in his brain, which makes him immune to pain but will eventually kill him. M assigns Bond to protect King's daughter Elektra, whom Renard had previously abducted and held for ransom. Bond flies to Azerbaijan, where Elektra oversees the construction of an oil pipeline. During a tour of the pipeline's proposed route in the mountains, Bond and Elektra are attacked by a hit squad in snowmobiles.
Bond visits Valentin Zukovsky at a casino to acquire information about Elektra's attackers. There, Bond grows suspicious when Elektra immediately loses $1 million at a high-card draw game and discovers that her head of security, Sasha Davidov, is secretly in league with Renard. Bond kills Davidov and boards a plane bound for an ex-Soviet ICBM base in Kazakhstan. Posing as a Russian scientist, Bond meets American nuclear physicist Dr. Christmas Jones, who is cooperating with Russian armed forces in overseeing the dismantling of the site. Renard removes the GPS locator card and weapons-grade plutonium core from a nuclear warhead. Before Bond can kill him, Jones exposes Bond's cover. Renard steals the bomb and flees, leaving everyone to die. Bond and Jones escape the exploding silo with the locator card.
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Crew
- Screenplay: Bruce Feirstein
- Cinematography: Adrian Biddle
- Edited by: Jim Clark
- Music: David Arnold
- Production design: Peter Lamont
- Produced by: Barbara Broccoli, Michael G. Wilson
Cast
- Pierce Brosnan as James Bond
- Sophie Marceau as Elektra
- Robert Carlyle as Renard
- Denise Richards as Christmas Jones
- Robbie Coltrane as Valentin Zukovsky
- Judi Dench as M
- Desmond Llewelyn as Q
- John Cleese as R
- Maria Grazia Cucinotta as Cigar Girl
- Samantha Bond as Miss Moneypenny
Production
- Country: United Kingdom
- Language: English, Russian
- Studios: EON Productions
- Budget: $135,000,000
- Box office: $361,832,400
- Themes: mission, london, england, submarine, oil, boat chase, mi6, heiress, bilbao, spain, british secret service, snowmobile
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