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Having met his marks in
GoldenEye, Pierce Brosnan returned as James Bond in the 1997 film
Tomorrow Never Dies. Bowing to some criticism that he was too
slighter build, Brosnan purportedly gained 20 pounds to give himself a
fuller face and a weightier presence.
Having established James Bond’s place in a 1990s landscape the new film
could spend more time being a grand slam action film. As such, Tomorrow
Never Dies is perhaps the best Pierce Brosnan James Bond film because
it is structured along classic Bond lines. There is a middle-aged villain
(Jonathan Pryce), a souped-up car (BMW 750iL) and a race against time to
stop a nefarious scheme to ferment a war between Britain and China. |
