After her father is murdered by a psychotic villain with a lodged bullet in the brain constantly empowering his senses (Robert Carlyle), an oil pipeline heiress (Sophie Marceau) is tasked to 007 (Pierce Brosnan) who allies himself with a beautiful short shorts wearing nuclear physicist (Denise Richards). Michael Apted's treatment of the The World is Not Enough is another excellent outing for Brosnan, contains an exciting opening and close and the one-liners at their best, but is still marred by overlength. Carlyle has the makings for a better villain and still should have made one, Marceau is supremely sexy and a superb Bond girl, and Richards is an insufferable joke playing a scientist.
*** out of ****
