Producers: Michael G. Wilson, and Barbara Broccoli
Director: Roger Spottiswoode
Scriptwriter: Bruce Feirstien
Score: David Arnold
Title Song: Sheryl Crow
Running Time: 1 hour, 57 minutes
Tomorrow Never Dies was produced by Eon Productions in 1997. After the success of Goldeneye, the producers were more confident to make a Bond movie for the 90's. This movie would be a huge success, though not quite reaching Goldeneye's popularity.
In this movie, an evil media mogul plans on starting a war in order to get a new Chinese leader elected. In return, he would get exclusive broadcasting rights in China for 100 years. Bond is put on the case, and teams up with agent Wai Lin, who also wants to stop Carver. Bond and Lin end up on Carver's stealth ship, and stop him from using the stolen American encoder to fire missiles at the Chinese and British.
MY GRADE: B+ This is not as good as Brosnan's first movie, but it still has plenty of action, beautiful women, and evil villains.
BEST MOMENT: The car chase scene in this movie is by far the most elaborate one in any of the Bond movies. To start with, the driver is in the back seat, controlling the car with a remote. Then, all of the following gadgets are employed: smoke screen, spike droppers, re-inflatable tires, machine guns, rockets, and a hood wire cutter. That doesn't even count the gadgets used before the chase scene. The car has a fingerprint encoded glove box, shocking door handles, indestructible frame and glass, and a GPS tracking system. This car is the best car ever! Too bad that it had to be wrecked like that.
ALSO NOTICEABLE: Bond in the booth, whupping up soundly on three burley guys.
DID YOU KNOW... *The stuntman who made the motorcycle jump over the helicopter had a light-weight dummy attached to him, to stand in as Wai Lin. He landed in three stories of cardboard boxes to lessen the impact.
*Bond's code name at the beginning of the movie is "White Knight".