This was the first James Bond film I ever saw, and I still love it. It’s very underrated and creative movie.

@jamstonjulian6947

Жыл бұрын

In what way is it creative? Just curious.

@bensneb360

Жыл бұрын

@@jamstonjulian6947 I like the idea of a female villain and her motivation and relationship with Renard

@alwaysOPEN4business

Жыл бұрын

@@bensneb360 two things in a 2 hour movie doesn't make it creative lol even the female villain thing isn't original

@jambler15

11 ай бұрын

People have been underestimating this movie from the beginning. Overall it's not great, but does serve as a point-by-point warmup for all the best aspects of Craig's era (same writers).

Fun fact, my friend Sarah was the assassin’s stunt double on the Thames driving the Sunseeker. A few months ago she was back working on the London river as Cameron Diaz’s stand in for her new Netflix movie.

Best Bond of the 90s!

What few reviewers ever seem to notice is that Skyfall borrowed numerous plot elements from The World is Not Enough that are more or less unique to just those two Bond movies, to such a degree in fact that at times Skyfall almost feels like a loose remake of TWINE. I won't remember all of them, but here are most of the major similarities: Both titles refer to Bond's family: "The World is Not Enough" is the Bond family motto and "Skyfall" is the family estate. Unusually long and somewhat unwieldy pre-credits sequence that ends with Bond's shoulder getting injured. MI6 person pulls strings to clear Bond to return to active duty despite his injury. Bond's injury causes him pain later in the movie. Main villain has a history with and personal grudge against Judi Dench's M, involving the villain getting captured & tortured. Main and/or secondary villains have some form of scarring/deformity that they blame M/MI6 for. Judi Dench gets far more screen time than is usual for the character, due to villain's revenge plot, forcing her out (literally and figuratively) "into the field". MI6 HQ is blown up by villain so the staff have to retreat to a lo-tech old school backup location. Some of the film is set in and around a remote old Scottish Highland house/castle. We see an old M in TWINE (a portrait of Bernard Lee's Admiral Sir Miles Messervy) and meet a new M in Skyfall (Ralph Fiennes' Mallory). The main female characters in both movies die (Christmas Jones isn't quite the main female character in TWINE, IMO). I feel like I'm forgetting a couple other major similarities but no one has read this far, anyway.

@Treblaine

Жыл бұрын

"If I had a nickel for every time MI6 headquarters gets blown up and they have to retreat to Scotland I'd have two nickels. Which isn't a lot... But it's weird it happened twice."

@alwaysOPEN4business

Жыл бұрын

Probably because you can make comparisons like these between many of the Bond films because so many have resued plot points/storylines to varying degrees throughout the decades...

@SurlyInsomniac

Жыл бұрын

@@alwaysOPEN4business To a degree, perhaps. For example You Only Live Twice and The Spy Who Loved Me are similar in several ways. After that, not so much. It's one thing for a Bond film to homage/reuse certain elements from previous films in the franchise, for example various Aston Martin ejector seat gags or Max Zorin's scheme somewhat echoing Auric Goldfinger's scheme. It's another when one specific film is a point by point copy/paste of another film. Of the 11 similarities I pointed out above, I'd argue that 9 of them are unique to only The World is Not Enough and Skyfall. That's what makes the copy/paste so obvious & egregious to anyone who's actually paying attention to the franchise. It's also worth pointing out that Neal Purvis & Robert Wade wrote both screenplays, so knowingly or not, they kind of ripped off themselves. BTW I did some Googling after posting my earlier list and found some additional similarities, one of which I'm kicking myself for not including, but I think I've made my point.

@alwaysOPEN4business

Жыл бұрын

@@SurlyInsomniacI mean I suppose so. I think some of your points are pretty tenuous tho, and again it's not like this is even a unique or first time thing in the series, as you stated just a couple of examples. Tbf I had noticed a few of the similarities between TWINE and Skyfall(like MI6 blowing up, a villain with a personal grudge against M), but considering how Skyfall references all the classic Bond films I guess I never saw HOW similar the plot points are between the two films until I read your comment...probably because I find both films mediocre anyway

@SurlyInsomniac

Жыл бұрын

@@alwaysOPEN4business I find them both mediocre, too, which is blasphemy in some circles where Skyfall is considered to be in the top 3 Bond films, if not the best. It has its moments but I find it a bit of a slog.

The World Is a much better place, with Stam Fine.

Honestly Stam Fine is one of the few channels I watch every new video ASAP and really enjoy both the jokes and the details about the production ... thanks mate really appreciate your work!!!

The one thing about it that I love. "I never miss." is the most shocking and brutal 007 post-killing quip ever. Connery started it with "I guess he got the point" and "Simply shocking" but "you can't kill me, you'd miss me" BANG "I never miss" just totally raised the bar.

The 'Christmas' double entendres they got away with back then are magnificent! How times have changed ... not for the better.

@andrewblanchard2398

Жыл бұрын

I loved those entendres

@joshslater2426

Ай бұрын

Will we ever get any double entendre Bond girl names? Most of them are probably just ‘too sexist’ for a modern audience. It’d be a shame if we never had any more.

I liked die another day. I saw it in London on the second day of its release in the same theatre.

Your James Bond videos always feel like Q snarkily recapping these ridiculous adventures after the fact. Love 'em.

You got me with the "veiled threat" line at the end. Quality.

For all it's flaws, I still love this film. Largely because Pierce Brosnan is just so damn James Bond by this point in his tenure. Thoroughly thorough review Stam Fine, as we have come to expect. It also echoes many of my own sentiments and reservations about the film. Love your channel. Keep up the great work

I actually remember dear departed Desmond Llewelyn's death.. a car crash with his wife (on the M4?). I was only 9 at the time but it was really crushing.. I think it was the era of Bond being on UK tv all the time so I watched it a lot as a kid.

@kelvinp.coleman563

Жыл бұрын

According to Wikipedia he was alone in the car, but I recall he was on the way back from a book-signing event (which Wikipedia also confirms). Like you, I'd grown up with the Bond films playing on TV all the time, and, being slightly older than you, I'd just seen this film in the cinema, the first one that I was old enough to watch on the big screen immediately upon its release. But yes, it was devastating for a young Bond fan.

I've been expecting your review, Mr Fine.

Your quick-fire ratings plusses and minuses had me in absolute stitches, very accurate and very funny, I chortled like curdling cheese, fair play to you sir!! ;D

I get that they wanted a real female Bond villain; one the Bond doesn't turn good with his magic penis. They succeeded, but the problem is that his alternate love interest kind of leaves you wondering if Bond should have turned and helped Elektra

@jambler15

11 ай бұрын

Lol. Even with Denise Richards this is one of the most ambitious & darkest films in the series.

Stam fine is one of the best things on You Tube. Please please please don't quit what you do!!!!!

I will say I think this is a good James Bond movie and yes it wasn't perfect.

It’s like they blew nearly all of the Bond Girl budget on Sophie Marceau and could only afford Denise Richards to fill the other role 🤣

Well the soundtrack was awesome - and Denise Richards? I mean okkkk that’s acting for you

@jambler15

11 ай бұрын

Yes. Arguably the series best non-Barry musical score.

thank you again for the laughs and entertainment. i also despise die another day - yikes!

I think we would all like to see a video where you score every bond film.

I used to love the Bond Films. I even read the Ian Fleming's novels, I remember the books being much drier than the movies. They certainly took some liberties with the character in the movies.

I had hoped that Stam Fine would know of that '30 Rock' scene. Of course Stam Fine did!

This film had everything but delivered very little. The pre-credits sequence was however brilliant.

@Jared7873

Жыл бұрын

Stam Fine gives a net total of 100 points to "The World Is Not Enough" (1999)

@ricardocantoral7672

Жыл бұрын

I thought it went on way too long.

'"Nuke-you-ler Phys-Ed Instructor"...I know what I said!' BRILLIANT, as always!

The Toffee Penny in the Bond Quality Street tin.

I remember the PlayStation game of this

I like this one more than Tomorrow Never Dies. But Goldeneye is still #1 of the Pierce Brosnan Bond movies.

Great pre title sequence and exciting submarine climax highlight a middling BOND film...but I will take this over any of Craig's bastard 007 flicks.

@mikavirtanen7029

Жыл бұрын

Compared to latest "Bond" movies Spectre and No Time to Die TWINE is a masterpiece. What i like the most in the movie is that Brosnan is clearly very comfortable with his role as Bond, and "I Never Miss" scene is one of the greatest "pure Bond" moments in the movie series. TWINE is after Goldeneye my favorite Brosnan Bond and i'll also take it before any of the Jason Bourne with a better wardrobe bastardizations.

@chrispalmer9838

Жыл бұрын

I'd watch Die Another Day or Moonraker on a loop, for all eternity, rather than suffer as much as a second of Daniel "Mr Personality" Craig...

@dfulce

Жыл бұрын

I'm afraid to say MOONRAKER is one of my favorites...seen it more than any other BOND film...again, FUN....which is what was missing from Craig's humorless time in the part.

@dfulce

Жыл бұрын

Yea by this time BRONSON really was comfortable in the part, shame he didn't get a proper send off .

@wrockage

Жыл бұрын

@@dfulce don't be afraid - i love moonraker and often listen to the soundtrack as well!

Maybe I need to see this one again and reassess but I always thought it was excellent

I remember cigar girl from this movie more than Christmas Jones

I want to give this an extra "like" for the Andrex commercial reference.

Honestly, this was a movie I really wanted to like. But there are just a few too many moments that make me go "wait, hold on-- you can't just-- how is that even supposed to work?" that it keeps jarring me out of the film's universe. Funny thing is these are thing I can definitely see somebody else just letting go for the sake of the ride -- and most other times I could do that too -- but these are just the exact sort of lapses in logic that my brain keeps scratching and worrying at until the whole movie falls apart in front of it.

"Middling" is a pretty good description of TWINE (at least among Brosnan Bonds) - not as good as Goldeneye, better than DAD. I'd rank it behind TND (it's plot is more coherent and it has Michelle Yeoh), but there's not a lot in it.

What I find frustrating about alot of Bond movies including this one, they have some really good ideas and alot of potential, but they find a way to screw them up. Like Renard in this film not being able to feel pain, they didn't really use that enough.

come on Sliders

1) Die another day 2) Goldeneye 3) and 4): I cant tell the other two apart. Michelle yeohs in one of them, right?

Die Another Day actually begins really well. Bond being captured and tortured for months should have been a good launch point for a movie. It just goes off the rails pretty quickly once Bond escapes his capture. It gets pretty ridiculous pretty fast. The opening premise amounts to nothing, like it was any other Bond movie opening sequence.

@dfulce

Жыл бұрын

I remember seeing it opening day and it was a massive hit, so it's weird it's considered one of the absolute worst, that title should go to some of Craig's.

@ricardocantoral7672

Жыл бұрын

You pretty much nailed it. I thought the film wasn't bad until it introduced that stupid DNA replacement clinic. I also think that Brosnan was actually pulling off his best Bond.

@tylerjsmithers8385

Жыл бұрын

@@dfulce *Ahem* Spectre...

@dchegu

Жыл бұрын

N don't forget that bond had kept his six pack abs during all the months of captivity.

@joshslater2426

Ай бұрын

I’ve grown to love Die Another Day. Yes it’s silly, but it’s the kind of over the top Bond film we’ll probably never get again. The Aston Martin Vanquish is my second favourite Bond car, and I’m sticking by that.

Bronsan Bond Film Ranking 1.Goldeneye 2 Brosnan's Remington Steele Era Diet Coke Commercial 3 TWiNE 4 Tomorrow Never Dies 5 Die Another Day

@wrockage

Жыл бұрын

perfect and also hilarious. thank you.

This film is like a King Charles Coronation quiche with extra chips

Sometimes less is more

le monde n'est pas un oeuf

I like TWINE more than I probably should. Die Anothjer Day on the other hand... I have never seen the entire movie. Every time I tried to watch it, I shut it off after they leave Cuba.

All they had to do..skip the bad silly jokes..and put some muscle on P.B..And kept the tone of Goldeneye..accept bad silly jokes..and..well.. I made my point..Good work Dude..:)

I agree TWINE isn't great or very good, and for a Bond story with some of the freshest takes on the formula in years it is also disappointingly dull. All that said, I've never understood the seemingly universally accepted wisdom/scorn that in this 60-year and 25-film series Denise Richards should be singled out as "woefully miscast as a nuclear physicist." (I'm not specifically quoting this video, I've heard/read these same words strung together in the same order again and again in Bond reviews and retrospectives). Bond plots often require him to work with specialists to save the day. The Bond franchise requires him to sleep with beautiful young women. The writers have economically but unconvincingly combined these needs into sexy scientists and secret agents for years. The Moore run of Britt Ekland's Mary Goodnight, Barbara Bach's Agent XXX & Lois Chiles' Holly Goodhead immediately spring to mind as examples of these sexy professionals that strain credibility. Whenever Dr. Christmas Jones is brought up as a unique problem in this regard (that the audience doesn't buy that she has the years of experience or the intelligence to have earned her position and expertise), it seems to me a thinly veiled dig at Richards' acting ability. Which, fair, she's no Dame Judy Dench. But I don't think anyone could have made her "but no really, I'm super smart" jargony lines work while also wearing Lara Croft cosplay. And being saddled with the most laughably self-parodying moniker in the franchise killed any chance of the character's success before she ever got speak a word. The failures of the character lie largely at the feet of the writers. You want to talk miscast? How about Teri Hatcher's Paris Carver in the previous film, Tomorrow Never Dies? Hatcher's been great in other projects, but here she delivers her noirish, jilted-lover, femme fatale lines with all the subtlety of a SNL parody. I never once believe she's anything other than an actress hammily getting to play out her Bond Girl fantasy. I don't mean to hate on Hatcher either, I just use her example to demonstrate that even for the Brosnan era that Christmas Jones wasn't a unique as a poorly conceived and realized character.

8:35 was that from blue state mountain

This video is all wrong about Brosnan's Bond order. The correct order is: Goldeneye. That is all. There were three later attempts to remake Goldeneye but who counts remakes?

This flick feels like an earnest attempt to do something interesting with Bond, but the tropes just drag it down. Great villain in Electra tho.

Sounds like you had a cold when you recorded this one.

What they made more Bond films after Sean Connery?

Electra

Denise is +5 but then drops to -20 when she speaks. 😆😆

A decent film for the most of it, but the point at which the rot set in, when they hired Purvis & Wade to do the writing...

Superb as aways. I look forward to your demolition of 'Die Another Day'.

Ranking James Bond films is subjective. I had alot of issues with The World is not enough. I thought the idea of a female villian was an interesting twist and the return Zukoski was a welcome, decent song, John Cleese, Issues: cringe worthy jokes that wouldn't raise superior Bond Roger Moores eyebrow, villian with a bullet in his head, Denise Richards as a Dr. My favorite of the Brosnan era is Tomorrow never dies as it the only one during his tenure that follows the Bond Formula and Hits it's stride. If you don't know the Bond Formula. Gunbarrel sequence, previous mission, song, briefing, Moneypenny interaction, meeting the over the top baddie, action sequence, light humour tossed in, love scene involving female who's involved with baddie, car chase or amusing death plan which gets foiled, followed by action scene, climax, campy or amusing death of the baddie, ending with Bond hooking up with last Bond chick and MI6 trying to find him. End. Here is my Ranking of each Brosnan's films. Goldeneye 4/5 Tomorrow never dies 5/5 The World is not enough 2/5 Die another Day 2/5.

Good reviews I disagree with opinion I am Big fan of the world is not enough one my childhood life personal favorite James bond movies in the Pierce brosnan James bond era I look twine entertaining joyful campy action pack excited classic fun bond movies adventure the world is not enough have lot of flaws but I appreciate fun Pierce brosnan James bond Best performance Sophie marceau Elektra king amazing Main villain Robert Carlyle Renard sympathetic character interesting character Renard and Elektra king great tags duo's Denise Richards nuclear physicist doctor Christmas fun campy sidekick characters she is very fun Robbie Coltrane Valentin zukovsky fun characters twine is fun I like all ,4 James bond movies adventure favorite

Orucu istersem tutabileceğimden kuşkum yok. Ama sizin "enough is enough" ultimatomunuzdan sonra son kez yemek istiyorum çünkü sınırları zorlamayı seviyorum. Cezalandırmayın yarın başlayacağım.

What is people's favourite Bronson bond film and the least?

@jambler15

11 ай бұрын

Favorite is Tomorrow Never Dies. Sorry, I don't love GoldenEye.

@tomster95

7 ай бұрын

Goldeneye ; the least die another day

@joshslater2426

Ай бұрын

Favourite: Goldeneye Least favourite: The world is not enough

Surely this film has the most convincing nuclear physicist ever portrayed in a movie. And don't call me Shirley. But, as usual, Bond is given the character of a lecherous incompetent.

Wet t-shirts was perfectly cast

my rating .. 1 - goldeneye, 2 - die another day, 3 - twine, 4 - tnd; look for ward to review of die another day!!

But the jetboat going through the restaurant is sooo Roger Moore. Also, I don't like Brosnan. But yeah, great song.

Goldeneye is the only good brosnan bond film, IMO. I saw them all in the theater and I remember a lot of eye-rolling and watch-checking.

Wow! The World Is Not Enough came out the same year as Tomorrow Never Dies. What a busy time for Eon

@aaronleverton4221

Жыл бұрын

Where did you get that idea? They were two years apart.

@StamFine

Жыл бұрын

it was a busy year.

@Jays_dead_cat

Жыл бұрын

@@aaronleverton4221 One hour ago, the title of the video was called "The World Is Not Enough (1997). Enough is Enough". So I guess they changed it

@aaronleverton4221

Жыл бұрын

@@Jays_dead_cat Guess so.

I don't quite get the statement; "and by the end, it doesn't make any sense"... It's a Bond movie, since when were they supposed to make sense??? A flying car? A submarine car? A double taking pigeon?

@Taranau

Жыл бұрын

And, Carey Lowell is The Greatest Bond Woman Ever... But, that's just me...

This film tried to be From Russia With Love and On Her Majesty's Secret Service and failed miserably at both.

Second best Brosnan movie and an OHMSS sequel.

OK then Michelle Yeoh +5000

@MattMcIrvin

Жыл бұрын

Yeah, I think I liked Tomorrow Never Dies more than this just because Michelle Yeoh is in it.

Of the four brosnan Bond films I found this one the worst by far. I thoroughly enjoyed the fourth one but now I'm not sure if it's truly a fun movie, or it was just so much better than the third one.

I felt the Brosnan Bond films got weaker as they went on. Goldeneye was best, then Tomorrow Never Dies, then this one and then the crap final one. Elektra being the villain instead of the Bond girl was a great twist. But the Rupert Murdoch villain of the previous film was clever, more so now than then.

Goldeneye was one of the best JB films, but this was just another in the string of Pierce Brosnan Bond films that just seemed to get worse and worse as they progressed. Don't get me started on the films after that...

Stam Fine loves the theme song, but I'm pretty sure it's garbage.

@wrockage

Жыл бұрын

i see what you did there.

I much prefer Tomorrow Never Dies

Oh hell you had me at Denise Richards in a wet t-shirt I'm in

I prefer 'Tomorrow Never Dies'. 'TWINE' has a very muddled script, action scenes that are better in concept than reality, a talented but inappropriate director and just basically deflates the longer it goes on, until it becomes genuinely boring and mechanical. Brosnan is excellent though. I find the focus on Richards casting when this film is discussed strange. Almost every aspect of this film has a flaw or compromise, so why is Richards singled out?

@musicandfilms9956

Жыл бұрын

Perhaps because the casting choice was so plainly based on attempting to regain the teen boy market rather than because Ms Richards fitted the role of a nuclear physicist.

@CaminoAir

Жыл бұрын

@@musicandfilms9956 Yes, definitely. 'Stunt' casting became a thing during the Brosnan films. As much as I love John Cleese, it was a mistake to cast him as 'R'. A relatively unknown character actor would have been the right choice.

The last of the good Pierce Brosnan Bond movies.

For me, this was the weakest Brosnan one. It just didn’t click as well as the other three. Yes, I would even rank Die Another Day over TWINE. Tomorrow Never dies is shorter and with more great moments, and Die Another Day has a lot of grandiose elements.

I personally rate Tomorrow Never Dies over this. I think the point this film lost me was with Coltrane's death - its always annoying then recurring characters are squandered in this way (Looking at you, No Time To Die!) - however I DID like the fact that he almost considers shooting Bond before helping him in his dying moments.

@hgwells1899

Жыл бұрын

But no recurring character died in No Time to Die? Least of all, Mr Bond himself. It's a classic movie fake out, like with modern Sherlock or Chris Nolans Batman. 007 fans who thought Bond had gone woke (which it had not, of course, merely playing with expectations) have fallen like lemmings for the fake out in order to have an angle for trolling the movie, while the cast, the producers, and the writers, have allowed the movie to rest in peace... until the next one "shocks" the world with it's big reveal that Bond survived. Haters will cry "retcon," of course... personally, I loved NTtD

@mrmeerkat1096

Жыл бұрын

@@hgwells1899 Blofeld died in NTTD and also Felix lighter. They have both been in at least two Bond movies.

@hgwells1899

Жыл бұрын

@@mrmeerkat1096 doh, Felix! My bad. Blofeld not so much

@thedtvdigest4142

Жыл бұрын

@hgwells 1899 yes I was referring to Felix. A terrible plot decision, in my opinion.

@jambler15

11 ай бұрын

Had Zukovsky never been shot by Bond in the knee (as we learn in Goldeneye), he'd have never been in position to save his life via the cane gun.

You are waaaay more charitable with this one than I. The opening teaser is great, then it is downhill. My only joy in watching the rest was Sophie Marceau's legs and that dress she wears towards her end (and how much leg it showed off). Beyond that, other than Samantha Bond, I got nothing. The film is peppered with actors who I would have rather seen in anything else. A lot of my viewing was, oh, that person, from that British film or tv program and, "Gee, they were so much better in that other thing." So much wasted talent (and screw convention, with Samantha Bond as Moneypenny, if I were Bond, I'd be taking her up on her flirtations and to heck with the bimbos). Sophie Marceau could have been a great villain, had anyone done anything to write a great one. I'd rather watch Robert Carlyle headbutt people and speak in an unintelligible Glaswegian accent. In fact, Begbie vs Bond would have been a much better film.

I think the worst bit here might be the hologram. So out of place.

Underrated movie. Die Another Day is just a tired bore. The opening of Casino Royale is also excellent but after that it was all downhill.

John Cleese should not be here.

I will never understand why people go after Denise Richards in this movie, obviously a horrible actress, but they ignore Sophie Marceau as if she is a good actress.

@harty4653

Жыл бұрын

Sophie Marceau was the best thing about this movie in my view

Surprised this video didn't make a big deal of them saying the movie title IN the movie (I swear that was a thing on this channel lol). I'll proudly defend Denise Richards as an actress and a woman, but will compromise by saying both Bond Girls here were miles above the ridiculous casting of the one that should've lost the sword fight in Die Another Day. I admit to being afraid to watch/hear the opinions of Die Another Day, based on the preview hints provided in this video. Apart from some unfortunate casting, the song is great and the film was a personal favourite, after Goldeneye.

Lets be fair, all the Brosnon bond films are far.... FAR behind Goldeneye in any metric you wish to measure them by. TWINE is ok. Its got some really good buts and some down right terrible bits. If they combined the best of TWINE and TND (Sophie Marceau as the main villain and brought in Michelle Yeogh (maybe as a credible nuclear scientist)) then they might have had a good Bond film.

The 'sort of' Bond girl Dr. Christmas Jones, I thought she looked too young even for Bond. I thought she barely looked 20 years old. But she was also very short and all Bond girls are usually tall and classy. And yes she didn't do much and she was weak fighting too. It was a strange choice casting her and the character. Bond making out with her at the end just looked all wrong. The finale was a bit of a damp squib, too.

@philfitnesspt6139

Жыл бұрын

It's because she was very big upcoming star at the time coming off starship troopers popularity and I think a popular horror film can't remb the name it was her heyday so probably big deal getting her as bond girl appeal to younger audience etc.

@geoffjoffy

Жыл бұрын

@@philfitnesspt6139 She looked like she should have been in The Spice Girls. Not a Bond film.

I liked this one for the most part. Christmas Jones was terrible, of course. My ranking: 1. Tomorrow Never Dies, 2. Golden Eye, 3. this one. ... 87. Die Another Day. My proof is in my comments on the Tomorrow Never Dies video.

Bond movies were way overrated. Really nothing more than scenes spliced together with some gimmick gadget that for some reason has a specific function that in real life would never be needed but shoehorned in for looks just like the Bond girls.

The dialogue in this movie is awful. It’s so, so, so hokey.

My least favorite Bond film. The pre-title opening sequence was an OK hook, but went downhill from there. Choosing the band Garbage was an appropriate choice.

That last so called 007 film should have been called NO TIME FOR MACHINE GUNS...since when did Bond become all about firing guns ? And Craig's era sucked all the FUN out of the series...am I wrong ?

I really didn’t enjoy this Bond apart from the initial chase sequence. Didn’t warm to the villain, Christmas Jones is just a ridiculous character, John Cleese is just irritating and as you say the plot is fairly convoluted and uninteresting.

Pierce Brosnan was one of the better Bonds, but he had some of the worst Bond films. No wonder EON rebooted the franchise after Q came up with a freaking invisible car in Die Another Day.

This movie suffers from really mediocre direction and execution.

A film showing Denise Richards in a wet T-Shirt cant be bad.