Tomorrow Never Dies (1997)

Tomorrow Never Dies is a very good Bond movie, updated with a media mogul as global warmonger, a remote-control car, great chase scenes, a supremely sexy Bond woman in the alluring Teri Hatcher, and a kickass Chinese agent in Michelle Yeoh (who plays her counter-Bond role with panache before she joins the Bond-did-me club in the closing scenes). Bond is about exotic locations, GQ meets MI-6, the spectacle of the chase, sexiness, and campy one-liners -- and this installment has them in spades and clubs. I really like Pierce Brosnan's Bond: urbane, aloof, resourceful, unstoppable, and deadly. I especially like a devious villain and Jonathan Pryce is certainly full of himself. Every Bond movie is made to be big, to outdo itself, to be a greater spectacle than anything before. This chapter in the Bond saga never makes me regret another viewing. 4.5 stars.