Review – Tomorrow Never Dies

James Bond versus the evil news media, here represented by Jonathan Pryce as a sort of combination Rupert Murdoch, Ted Turner, and just a little Bill Gates stirred in to make him extra hateful. I suppose I would have completely ignored this one if I hadn’t gotten hooked on Bond movies when I was a kid. I’ve been watching these things since I was so young that I couldn’t understand why a guy as cool as Bond would spend so much time playing with girls (who, after all, were commonly known to be a major source of cooties) when he could be out killing bad guys. But in all fairness, this one is a bit better than the last Pierce Brosnan Bond effort; the actor seems a little more comfortable with the role, though he’s still a far cry from Sean Connery. Speaking of whom, did anyone else notice that the Brosnan Bond in this one is mystified by a Chinese computer keyboard, while if memory serves the Connery Bond (in You Only Live Twice) is supposed to have possessed a degree in “Oriental languages”? Nobody else noticed that, huh? Go figure. Mildly amusing