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I liked Sophie Marceau and Pierce Brosnan. They had far more of a "spark" than Brozza and Denise Richards. True its a bit melodramatic at times but the scene when he and Marceau are in bed together (lucky bastard) is...phew.
Brosnan, on the whole, was good I thought. There were times when he overacted ("there's no point in LIVING if you can't feel AALLIVE") but he carried the role fairly well IMO.
Carlyle was good but underused and, refreshingly, Judy Dench gets some time away from her office and out in the field.
So overall an entertaining but very flawed entry. It at least tries harder than its predecessor to tell a more complex story.
6.5/10
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Yeah I know that. I did say he overacted sometimes didn't I?
Most normal people wouldn't notice stuff like this anyway.
http://screenmusings.org/TheWorldIsNotEnough/pages/TWinE_0117.htm
Common, thats just unfair. He's being splashed with water at high speed, you're going to pull faces :p
http://screenmusings.org/QuantumOfSolace/pages/QoS_0039.htm
Also, Haphazard's review - criticised Brosnan fairly strongly at times but not one mention of "pain face". It isn't that bad.
There's nothing overstated about those postures. Except that last one, which even as a Brosnan fan, I can't defend :P
The only negatives (suprise suprise) - Denise Richards poor acting and the whole Dr Christmas Jones thing. I've actually seen her act and look better in other films..
But it goes awry somewhere around the awkward ski sequence (the parahawks are none too menacing--why not just some assassins on skis?) and goes off the rails when Richards appears. It is a shame because the first thirty minutes or so are very promising.
Might stick this on later actually, haven't watched it in a while and most saturday night TV (except Match of the day) is sh*t anyway.
I think that, TND and TWINE has their positive points. They were made to follow the books, and be "romance like" films.
I see that Goldeneye had more action scenes, while TND didn't have a Bond vs Villain fight, and in TWINE the villain was Elektra (for my entire life i thought that it was Renard).
I think that these 2 films from Brosnan Era were a remindscence to the past Bond movies. Where there was not filled with action (like FRWL) and there was more calm, loving, and talking/conversation scenes.
I disagree on TND @Sonic but I think with TWINE they did try and make things more serious and get things closer to the books, but they also mixed in plenty of comedy and gadgets which I really liked.
PTS
Ski chase
Underground bunker shootout/explosion
Pipeline detonation
Zukovsky's factory showdown
Bond vs Renard in the Submarine
......and bits of smaller action scenes between the above action scenes too
PROS= locations Bilbao Spain ( Guggenheim Museum), Istanbul, Azerbaijan,etc.
Women=Maria Grazia Cucinotta, Sophie Marceau, Denise Richards, the doctor, etc
BOND=Pierce Brosnan was a fine Bond. He owned the character. In the banker's office after the exploding gun, he has a ruthless look to him as well as in the missile silo where he was ready to execute Renard.
Stunts= The boat chase on the Thames w/360 turn, paraglider-equipped snowmobiles, BMW Z8, etc,
Villains= Renard was very good in his role, and of course Electra King
Sophie Marceau was great in her role, convincing, beautiful and deadly,she held the story together. (She has done several good films)
Sex appeal= In Bond fashion he always manages to "play" a little (just as long as he stays in touch with the good doctor)!!
Humor=Valentine is such a joy to watch, and shows at the end that he has honor. John Cleese is entertaining
TOP MOMENT= Q "I've always tried to teach you two things, 1st, never let them see you bleed, and 2nd, always have an escape plan.
CONS= Weak story, (which was Brosnan's bad luck. Aside from Goldeneye most of his films lacked a good script.) Denise Richards, not only was she wrong for the part, totally unconvincing, but she delivered her lines in an awful way. The Cigar girl would have done a much better job, and she is twice as gorgeous.
TWINE for me is a good film, enjoyable, better than the previous TND, is a film based in the James Bond way, and I walked out of the cinema satisfied. I hope you did as well. Take care
I'm not sure if it's Brosnans best performance or not. He's good, as always he owns the role, but sometimes he overracts a bit. I think his best performance is probably DAD. In the first half (y'know, the good part) he was on fire.
As much as I dislike DAD, I agree it was Brosnan's best Bond performance.
It was an almost perfect end to bring to a close, 20th Century James Bond
I think those few supposed 'misteps' in the form of Christmas Jones and a different storytelling direction, shouldn't be the only reasons people judge TWINE unfairly. People don't always adapt to change, and are often quite thrown by it - as we learnt with Dalton's two outings as Bond. But despite the changes TLD & LTK are great James Bond films. TWINE is no different; it experiments with the formula and while not too well-recieved by the critics, remains one of the series' most entertaining IMO.
Watching it again after Skyfall, looks like this isn't the first time M has created a villain by someone she's supposed to protect getting captured / used as collateral / bait...
Not really sure how some have put TWINE into the same basket as DAD but to each their own...
The film is almost just as good as GoldenEye but falls short on two key levels for me. The submarine finale is rather underwhelming and completely abandons some plot points that were heavily emphasised earlier. And the film throws a lot of the great ideas it established earlier out the window for the usual formula to tie things up neatly. Once Elektra is revealed as the mastermind, Renard just fades into the background as a glorified henchman. As well as that, some of the dialogue is horrific in parts.
That said, it's a good two hours spent. There's nothing to hate here for me, just a couple of things I would have done differently. I like the movie as a whole and it sits nicely just inside my top ten.
Very well put. I agree with your comments. I get why some of its parts annoy and could have been better but itself as a whole is good and worthy of being a top ten Bond movie.
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