My review of Tomorrow Never Dies: Thoroughly thoroughly fun. Fun is not a word that I use liberally. If you like the franchise of Bond this is a must- see. It covers all the bases. Most of them it covers honorably but somehow it lacks the edge of your seat excitement of the previous installment. This is coming from a person who thinks somebody did it better in two pictures: Goldfinger and Goldeneye. While I didn't leave the theatre charged (perhaps my sleeplack?) I give the show a thumbs up. It was told in a much more comic book/Hong Kong style (read Batman Forever/impossible gunfire) dialect than I expected from a non-Roger Moore Bond (this is coming from a person who thinks Moore is necessarily not better). I look forward to catching it at the dollar theatre when it makes it.
The three principles are Brosnan, Yeoh, and Pryce (sp?). I see nothing new in this Bond characterization, if you liked the last one, I thought it the best since Connery, this one loses nothing. The director's homage to John Woo is shown in many shots when a concentrating Bond fires endless rounds in a direction he's not looking. Michelle Yeoh seems to be in another Hong Kong action movie that's interwoven to 007's mission. It's an entertaining mix. The performance that did not live up to my expectations was Jonathon Pryce's. The character was a great concept but somehow I kept expecting the marketing blitz to culminate with him testifying for Infiniti. Seemed uninspired.