Tomorrow Never Dies (1997)

Rating: 65%
Okay Brosnan film #2 and altogether Bond film #18, here's how it turned out for me with Tomorrow Never Dies.

Plot: Media baron Elliot Carver who is the head of the Carver Media Group Network, is making plans to use a GPS encoder to provoke a war between China and United Kingdom in order to gain exclusive broadcast rights. M sends Bond to investigate by trying to get in contact with Paris, Bond's former girlfriends and Carver's trophy wife. But this becomes more difficult when Carver becomes aware of who Bond is and a Chinese spy named Wai Lin continues to interfere despite being on the same case.

Well to this films credits, it does for the most part act and have a lot of aspects to what makes a good Bond film. Brosnan was still doing a fairly good job as Bond, Wai Lin and for the most part Paris were good bond girls while not completely standing out, the action was great - I especially liked how we got more into Bond's car and the gadgets that it has considering that all that introducing from the previous film frankly seemed to have been for nothing. But what makes this film not exactly great is the villain and therefore the story. I'm all for the concept of starting a World War III and all that, but...starting it just for broadcast rights? That's...just...dumb. To be fair, you can argue that it at least makes Carver unique with what his evil plan it and why he's doing it. Heck, in terms of evil plot, one could argue that he's technically, kind of, sort of as unique as Goldfinger when you think about why he's doing it unlike a lot of the other villains. But the fact that it's for broadcast rights...that's just stupid - or at least to me. Granted you can argue that in a way it makes sense and it's interesting at how psychotic he really is, but that's my two cents to I digress.

And that's my review for Tomorrow Never Dies, it was great in terms of the Bond girls, the action and the gadgets, I just think the story and the motivation for the villain to be a little goofy despite how at the same time it makes him come out as a more memorable villain in a way. It's not the best, but it's still a nice action-packed Bond film.