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The World Is Not Enough

© Andrej Ristic

At the very same night a friend suggested to me to see the film Delicatessen by Jean Pierre Jeunet and Marc Caro, she told me a story about her games with her brother when she was a kid. They used to have that glass coffee table and he would get on top, she under the table, he'd hold a knife and perform a scene from some horror film without actualy cutting. One day, the glass shattered and the game was over.

It is with such ideas in mind that I left the cinema after seeing the last James Bond film and because anyone who can place so many ideas into his work does deserve to have it called art I decided to pay my respects to the longest running serial of a 'guy films', James Bond.

19th Bond film, 'The World Is Not Enough', pays its respects to the masterpieces of the serial, it is a extremely inventive film, so much that at times, 'Le cite des enfants perdu' (City of Lost Children) comes o mind. The film comes with so much history, that one cannot help watching it with scenes of previous films in mind.

As it started, with its trademark, the title song, one cannot be left cold watching the video that has been amazingly drawn computer graphic, reminding of a work of a painter Dave McKean.

Plot is also different, this time, Bond's archvillan Renard (amazingly performed by Robert Carlyle), did not arrive from the comic book and is portrayed humanely, giving him the ability to love, care and enjoy. Renard, after kidnapping a princess of some of the former Soviet states, tries to destroy her father's oil transfer system before it was even built.

Pierce Brosnan, excellent Bond, second only to Connery, keeps on the straight face at all times and does not jump for falling planes in comic attempts to look like Jean Claude Van Damme. He is also given a somewhat evil side when, after killing Renard's girlfriend with some element of joy communicates it to Renard.

Q (Desmond Llewelyn), the inventor of all the Bond's gadgets, character that portrayed Bond's mentor is retiring, and demonstrating his last invention, he sinks from the screen with a reminder 'always have a way out. He is being replaced by R (John Cleese).

As every valuable Bond film, this one has two amazingly beautiful women, a good one that is actually evil and the bad one, actually good, princess Electra King (Sophie Marceau) and Christmas Jones (Denise Richards), named in the style of the great Pussy Galore, woman with sexiest eyebrows, nuclear scientist that speaks perfect Russian and discovers Bond's horrible Russian accent to the audience.

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