More Fan Reviews (Spoilers Inside!) for Bond’s Latest
Kees Boer and Friends Square off to the New 007-ly Film

I was lucky to see the 19th Eon production James Bond installment entitled “The World Is Not Enough” at a local early premiere night. I thoroughly enjoyed the film. It is amazing, but the third Bond movie that Bond actors have done thus far, has always been their best. Goldfinger was Connery’s third 007 movie; “The Spy Who Loved Me” was Moore’s third and this is Brosnan’s third, of course, and they all hit the emotional and financial jackpot at the third one. (Devotees still argue about Dalton’s possible third movie, whose script “Property of a Lady” is reviewed on the 007Forever pages in Behind The Scenes/The Eye That Never Sleeps.)

Pierce Brosnan did a great job as Bond. He played it “very believable.” His portrayal of Bond is as a man in touch with his personal feelings, who at the same time wouldn’t think twice about killing a villainess, an unarmed woman, whom he has recently made love to. Bond actually gets hurt in this movie, and gets tortured (Oh, goodie!) as well. In this sense, this movie is a lot more Fleming-like. It was also good to see Bond on snow skis again. One interesting thing was that Bond seems to kill a villain, says a witty line, and finds out that the “kill” wasn’t successful in TWINE. “The Broz” himself also lost some weight since “Tomorrow Never Dies.”

007’s Teammates: Bond’s regular teammates are in this movie, Ms. Moneypenny played by Samantha Bond, M played by Ms. Judy Dench, and Q played by Desmond Llewelyn. I liked that Ms. Moneypenny is flirtatious with Bond once again. I felt that in the last few movies, Penny was too p.c., almost ice cold, toward Bond. When Moneypenny hoped for a diamond ring from Bond, it reminded me more of the old Moneypenny ala Diamonds Are Forever. Dame Judy Dench was a delight, playing “crusty old” M. It is clear that more of an appreciation is growing between Bond and M. Instead of just giving the assignment at the beginning of the movie, M actually becomes part of the plot, when she gets captured and imprisoned. This reminds readers of Kinsgley Amis’ Colonel Sun novel, where M gets captured.

007’s Story: Overall I found the plot to be fairly complicated in nature. Part of this is that several characters switched sides, (and so did several scriptwriters) which reminded me on the whole of a John Gardner book. The film even hints that Sir Robert King was M’s former love interest, which reminds me of Raymond Benson’s recent opus “The Facts of Death”. Electra’s father also dies at the beginning of the movie, moving the whole plot, as in “Facts”. The teaser sequence was quite different, having several lengthy scenes crammed into it. As a matter of fact, while watching it I started to wonder if the usual credits and theme song were going to be part of Bond XIX at all!

In this sense the pre-title sequences was very different from any Bond movie, in all its elements, “chit-chat” with M, and surprises, which one would normally expect following the credits proper and theme song.

007’s Musical Score: I must admit that when I first heard the soundtrack before seeing the film, I was hardly impressed. It reminded me a lot of the soundtrack of “Tomorrow Never Dies.” Not that this is bad in itself, as David Arnold made certain strides over GoldenEye, but TWINE didn’t ring as an original and didn’t do much for me.

When I heard the soundtrack together with the movie, however, I found it fit the celluloid perfectly, and I loved it. Even the Garbage song sounded good, seeing it in conjunction with the title sequence. I absolutely loved the Bond music playing during the closing titles!

007’s Locations: The locations are in various places in Europe and Asia, with the vast majority in Europe. I always liked Bond in Europe, this might be because I’m from Europe myself, but I always felt that home provided the perfect setting for any Bond movie. I will say, that it would benefit the viewer greatly to have a good topographical knowledge of Southeastern Europe to view this movie.

007’s Women: Both Sophie Marceau as Elektra King and Denise Richards as Dr. Christmas Jones did a great job. My first impression was that one was the “good gal” and one the “bad egg” but as the movie progresses the roles reverse. It was dramatic to see Ms. King torture Bond, and then later seeing him kill her in cold blood.

Bond ends up with Dr. Jones at the end of the film, much like he ended with Dr. Goodhead in Moonraker, and with the same retorts.

007’s Gadgets: Bond drives a BMW Z8. He has a “standard” rocket launcher, which he uses toward the end of the movie. In the beginning of the film, he also speeds with a special jet boat, with which he chases a femme fatale. This boat is like the opposite version of the Lotus Espirit from the “The Spy, Who Loves Me” as it is a boat driven on land rather than a car driven at sea! The villains also have some interesting gadgets. There is a helicopter with giant vertically suspended circular saws. This idea was first going to be used in the movie “GoldenEye.” They also have small helicopters much like the little Nellie of “You Only Live Twice,” with which they chase Bond. The snow ski scene especially reminded me much of that movie.

I felt overall that TWINE maintains an excellent balance between Bond’s gadgets and his wits. He didn’t overly rely on the gadgets for his rescues, but did use them to the delight of the audience.

007’s Adversaries: Robert Carlyle did a good job as the villain. He didn’t seem a traditional villain though–he actually looked like a criminal! Whereas someone like Goldfinger looks like a respectable individual in society, (European society!) Renard looks like a guy getting arrested in the television show COPS!

The redoubtable Ms. King was very likeable, making it all the more surprising to see her turn out bad, and I don’t just mean a “bad girl” like Bond’s typical shameful slatterns!
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Unlike the other Bond movies, this movie actually seemed to have two main villains instead of just one major villain, a henchman, and their army of bad guys.

007’s Success: This is definitely one of the best Bond movies made yet. I am looking forward (and many friends are also) to seeing Bond XIX many times over. Two of my thumbs (If I had more I would use them too) up!

Other fans chime in from around the globe:

“Saw TWINE–It was big letdown. Too much comedy. When the older movies had 3 to 5 great quips–this was non-stop. John Cleese as the new Q? This movie reflects the new poor quality of movies in general–What a major disappointment.”

“If the theater I went to in Manhattan, Friday night around Union Square, is any indication, the new Bond is going to do terrific business. At 5:30 all showings on a hourly basis at $9.50 a ticket were sold out to midnight. A friend just told me that a theater she went by in San Diego had all showings sold out. I DID get to see it, just not there, not that night, but the next afternoon, in Brooklyn, by the skin of our teeth.”

“Yes, it is a good movie. I pretty much knew on Sunday afternoon that it would come in #1 at the box office. I’d taken my son back to see the Pokemon movie for a second time. I asked the girl at the box office about it. She had a display there with how all the films were doing at their theater. Since it was clearly #1 there, I was sure that it would be #1 everywhere else, as well.”

“Hello. I assume you’ve seen TWINE by now. My thoughts: Brosnan was excellent; loved the use of the Bond theme as the close credits; the parahawk chase was a little on the lame side; the boat chase had remnants of the Moore era; was that a continuity problem for the yellow tennis shoes on Christmas in the caviar factory?; Desmond is looking pretty tired but Cleese was good; this movie was more like the early era of Bond flicks; overall, the movie was one of the best yet.”

“I saw TWINE a couple of weeks back at a junket at MGM and didn’t think it worked. Parts were okay–Pierce was GREAT. But, overall, the action scenes were totally incoherent, and the main plot wasn’t well defined. Like TND, there’s no relationship between Bond and Jones to make the romantic payoff work. The end joke was very Moonrakerish, I thought. But the biggest offender was Arnold’s techno action cues. They were so uninspired and just droned on. Could have been a better film with a Barry score. So, it gets a 6 of 10 (nahhh, give it a 7 of 10 because it was much better than TND–but not nearly as stylish as GoldenEye).”

“I saw the Dutch premiere at the famous Tuschinski Theatre in Amsterdam, arriving right on time, I enjoyed some free coffee, together with some hundred people of the Dutch writing press. I felt extremely privileged–I will tell you about the film. IT IS ABSOLUTELY FANTASTIC!!!!

Pierce Brosnan is amazing, and is fitting the role better each time he plays it. Another A+ feature is Sophie Marceau as Elektra King…Isn’t she one of the world’s most gorgeous women? I think so!

Although the plot is once again a bit vague (a lot of story lines emerge in the big story) it is definitely much better than the last one, “Tomorrow Never Dies”–This one will earn its millions!

There has been much doubt about the listing of ‘Istanbul, Turkey’ as a filming location, but I can tell you from experience–They were there for certain! All I can say now is, spread the word that this film ROCKS!”

“Personally, I was disappointed, thought it was dingy, rhythm-less. Reminded me too much of the John Glen directed 80’s Bond films, especially LTK. It had the same washed out look. It was reasonably well-paced though. I’d give it a 5.5 out of 10. How does everybody else feel?”

Answer: We would love to know!–007Forever Editors

–Kees Boer is famous for sharing his Christian faith in God live on stage with Pierce Brosnan. He is has been a Bond fan since he received a Corgi Goldfinger car 30 years ago (when they were affordable).