As the countdown begins for the new millennium there is still one number you can always count on.|Nov. 17, 1999|UK|128 Min.|PG-13
Genre: Action;Adventure;Thriller
Description: In the 1999 film *The World Is Not Enough*, James Bond, an MI6 agent, is tasked with retrieving money for Sir Robert King, a British oil tycoon and ally of M. During a meeting with a Swiss banker in Bilbao, Bond questions him about the murder of an MI6 agent. However, the banker is killed, forcing Bond to flee with the money. Back at MI6 headquarters in London, the money is revealed to be rigged with explosives, leading to Sir Robert King’s death. Bond pursues the assassin on the Thames and corners her at the Millennium Dome, where she ultimately sacrifices herself in a fiery escape attempt.
Bond’s investigation leads him to Renard, a former KGB agent turned terrorist. Renard, who has a bullet lodged in his brain, is slowly dying but has become immune to pain. M assigns Bond to protect Elektra King, Sir Robert’s daughter, who was previously kidnapped by Renard. Bond travels to Azerbaijan, where Elektra is overseeing the construction of an oil pipeline. During a survey of the pipeline route, Bond and Elektra are ambushed by a team on snowmobiles equipped with parabolic wings.
To gather more information, Bond meets Valentin Zukovsky at a casino, discovering that Elektra’s head of security, Sasha Davidov, is collaborating with Renard. Bond eliminates Davidov and boards a plane to a Russian ICBM base in Kazakhstan. There, he poses as a Russian nuclear scientist and meets American physicist Dr. Christmas Jones. Renard steals the GPS locator card and plutonium from a nuclear bomb, leaving Bond and Jones to escape the exploding silo with the locator card. The film follows Bond’s relentless pursuit to stop Renard’s deadly plans and protect the world from catastrophe.
Cast director: Michael Apted
Cast actor: Pierce Brosnan, Sophie Marceau, Robert Carlyle, Denise Richards, Robbie Coltrane, Judi Dench, Desmond Llewelyn, John Cleese, Maria Grazia Cucinotta, Samantha Bond
Original name: The World Is Not Enough