1999 · adventure · action · thriller
The World Is Not Enough
Directed by Michael Apted2h 8m1999
Greed, revenge, world dominance and high-tech terrorism – it's all in a day's work for Bond, who's on a mission to protect a beautiful oil heiress from a notorious terrorist. In a race against time that culminates in a dramatic submarine showdown, Bond works to defuse the international power struggle that has the world's oil supply hanging in the balance.
Our read: The World Is Not Enough (1999) reads as a heavy, breathless, grounded adventure · action · thriller entry — extreme in intensity, epic-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Heavy, breathless, extreme adventure / action, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, epic, measured.
- heavy
- kinetic
- extreme
- epic-stakes
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