I don’t know how I feel about this film, I feel like it had a lot of good things - a good cast who performed well + a no-gimmicks plot - but it just felt a bit whelming to me?
I feel like the reveal at the end of the film wasn’t worth the buildup, and there was too much monotony within the second act to substantiate the lacklustre payoff
It’s a little hard to provide a thorough review without fresh viewings of other Brosnan Bond films - and by extension, Connery, Moore and Craig’s works - but on a stand-alone level this film has a lot to love
This was the first Bond film post-dissolution of the USSR and yet it still makes references to the age-old Cold War tropes - secret Russian weapons, double agents - the list goes on. It’s a film formula that’s been done a…
This movie would be nothing without Denzel
Really enjoyed the story - good to see a early 2000s cop film deviate from the typical plot
