The World Is Not Enough (1999) poster
1999 · adventure · action · thriller · revenge

The World Is Not Enough

Directed by Michael Apted2h 8m1999
ElsewhereIMDb6.4218kRT51%Metacritic57
  • heavy
  • kinetic
  • extreme
  • epic-stakes
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Heavy, breathless, extreme adventure / action, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, epic, measured, hand-scored across twelve axes of taste.

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Greed, revenge, world dominance and high-tech terrorism – it's all in a day's work for Bond, who's on a mission to protect a beautiful oil heiress from a notorious terrorist. In a race against time that culminates in a dramatic submarine showdown, Bond works to defuse the international power struggle that has the world's oil supply hanging in the balance.

Our read · The World Is Not Enough (1999) reads as a heavy, breathless, grounded adventure · action · thriller entry — extreme in intensity, epic-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook. Hand-scored on twelve axes of taste — mood, pacing, weirdness, hope, stakes, humour, reality, density, warmth, auteur, intensity, and era — with a derived palette drawn from its dominant cinematography.

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You want Brosnan-era Bond with oil intrigue, gadgets, and a submarine climax.

ends triumphantyou’ll be fine aftergrabs you earlygrips from the openattention 3/5earns its length
Date nightWith friendsSoloWith parentsKids around
Heads-upgraphic violence

Skip it tonightYou want Craig-era grit or cannot tolerate uneven Bond girl plotting.

DNA · twelve axes

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Each axis is hand-scored — not derived from votes or genre averages. The marker shows where this film sits; the gradient fill uses the film's own cinematography palette.

Mood · HeavyCosy
Pacing · Slow-burnKinetic
Intensity · GentleExtreme
Weirdness · ConventionalSurreal
Hope · NihilisticRedemptive
Stakes · IntimateEpic
Humour · NoneBroad
Reality · GroundedFantastical
Density · SparseTwisty
Warmth · ColdTender
Auteur · TransparentSignature
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