The World Is Not Enough (1999)

Rating: 55%
Brosnan film #3, here's The World Is Not Enough.

Plot: The film starts off with Bond retrieving money for a billionaire named Sir Robert King only to witness the Swiss Banker getting assassinated in the process before telling any information about the person who killed an M16 agent. But shortly after bringing the money to King, the money turns out to be booby-trapped killing King. So M assigns Bond to protect King's daughter Elektra whom M believes is targeted to be captured and held ransom by former KGB agent Renard.

Okay Brosnan is still doing alright and we still have some nice while not great action scenes. And I kind of liked how they made the villain kind of interesting with how he has a bullet that blocks his senses and stuff like that. I would however agree with other people that the plot was a little confusing, at least in the sense that I wasn't always sure where precisely it was going. But what seems to really hurt this movie and I mean REALLY hurt it is Denise Richards' performance as Dr. Christmas Jones. Her performance apparently hurt this film to the point that she won Worst Supporting Actress at the Razzies and is commonly declared the worst Bond girl, bar none. This has been viewed to be the case for a couple of reasons 1) Just because she's wearing a tank top and short shorts, 2) the line "I thought Christmas only comes once a year." and 3) she wasn't very believable as a nuclear physicist because she's wearing a tank top and such short shorts and just plain her acting. All of this I only MOSTLY agree with. While I wasn't paying attention to her acting a whole lot, I will admit that she wasn't much of a character and I especially get it that even though her character did know nuclear stuff to help give Bond some information at what the antagonists where doing, that still didn't make her convincing seeing as most nuclear physicists probably close to never wear that kind of clothing on the job. But worst bond girl? That's a bit far. Because so far when I think of what falls in line to being a bad bond girl, is how they are bland and mostly forgettable. And what makes some bond girls the absolute worse are the ones that are mainly helpless bimbos/just plain bimbos such as Tiffany Case in Diamonds Are Forever, Mary Goodnight in The Man With The Golden Gun, and Bibi Dahl in For Your Eyes Only. I mean come on guys, I can get disliking Richards' characters because she's suppose to be a nuclear physicist when she's really just a bad actress in clothes that aren't making her convincing, but I ask you; is that really worse then two bumbling, helpless women wearing nothing but their BIKINIS and a kind of annoying teenager sneaking into the hotel room of a guy in his mid-50s expecting to get laid the moment he comes in finding her naked in his bed?

And that's my review for The World Is Not Enough. While I can agree that Richards' characters is one of the worst Bond girls, there's enough from previous girls from these film for the to argue that calling her THE worst is too far. But that aside, it was a Bond film that still has a good Bond and has good action and a kind of interesting villain, it just needed improvement as far has understanding for sure what was happening in the plot during a good portion of the movie. It's not the absolute worst, but it's not the greatest.