Pierce Brosnan's third outing as James Bond is a fun-filled espionage adventure featuring complex villains and an enjoyable sense of humor.

| Original Score: 6/10 | Dec 5, 2024

There are only a few good moments in The World Is Not Enough, and all of them involve co-star Denise Richards running away from explosions and climbing around a submarine.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Oct 27, 2023

The World is Not Enough is one of the worst films in the James Bond franchise...

| Original Score: 2/5 | Dec 19, 2022

This is a confused and messy film that never gets going and sadly ends the 90s on a bad note for Bond.

| Original Score: D | Aug 28, 2022

Any goodwill evaporates when placed alongside the presence of Denise Richards as Dr. Christmas Jones.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Sep 25, 2021

A pair of remarkable villains, a sizable role for M, a bittersweet goodbye for Q, a return of a formidable ally, a killer song, a competent director, and a showcase for what is arguably Brosnan's best performance as 007 - it has a lot going for it.

| Sep 18, 2021

It throws away good actors and sacrifices pace without providing any complexity in return

| Original Score: 5/10 | Apr 3, 2021

The action scenes involve quite a bit of complexity and tricky choreography, but tend to simply happen without any sense of tenseness or originality.

| Original Score: 3/10 | Sep 25, 2020

If Goldeneye is clearly Brosnan's best film, then The World is Not Enough is probably his second best (although that is not a stretch).

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jul 16, 2020

An attempt to go back to basics that's aged much better than Tomorrow Never Dies and Die Another Day.

| Original Score: B- | Apr 6, 2020

It has a strong villain pairing and some good moments, but it also has a really weak performance from the Bond girl and some dull action scenes. A very mixed bag of a film.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Feb 11, 2020

All the various gears and pulleys that go together to make a Bond film run like a well-oiled machine are at work here.

| Original Score: B+ | Apr 10, 2019

The World Is Not Enough is, pound for explosion pound, a great return on your entertainment dollar.

| Original Score: A- | Feb 26, 2019

Brosnan's Bond looks like a man who actually has a wife and kids back home. He looks like he owns a juicer. But worse, we're now getting into Bond's mind, which is a dreadful cul-de-sac.

| Nov 27, 2017

At times it's slow and a bit too silly, but at its best, it's the worthy successor to 'GoldenEye' that Brosnan deserved.

| Original Score: 7.5/10 | Nov 7, 2015

What happens this time around? You know exactly what happens: Bond shoots people, has sex and saves the world. The beauty is, as with most Bond movies, it doesn't matter.

Full Review | Nov 2, 2015

What do the James Bond series, the Chicago Cubs, and Master P's No Limit empire have in common? All owe their considerable commercial success more to loyalty, marketing, and tradition than to quality.

| Nov 2, 2015

In a welcome return to the gritty glamour of such early outings as From Russia with Love, this 19th James Bond adventure effortlessly juggles a hard-hitting story with all the expected "super spy" embellishments.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Nov 2, 2015

We expect a rousing pre-credit sequence -- and The World Is Not Enough provides not one but two. Together they last 20 minutes and probably cost the GNP of an average Third World country.

| Nov 2, 2015

And what of the actresses who have taken the one-way ticket to career palookaville as the Bond girls? Well, here is the real gem: Sophie Marceau, as glamorous oil heiress Elektra King, is terrific.

| Nov 2, 2015