007 Every Pierce Brosnan Bond Movie Ranked By IMDb

007: Every Pierce Brosnan Bond Movie, Ranked By IMDb

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Pierce Brosnan’s James Bond films are considered among the weakest entries in the franchise, but which one is ranked the lowest by IMDb?

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007 Every Pierce Brosnan Bond Movie Ranked By IMDb

One of the main reasons why the James Bond franchise has managed to survive for more than half a century is that it keeps evolving and subverting itself. After the grounded early Sean Connery-starring movies, the Roger Moore movies took a wackier, more slapstick-based approach. When Moore’s comedic approach became stale, Timothy Dalton came along for some refreshingly dark and violent Bond movies.

After the Dalton movies, Pierce Brosnan came along with a combination of every previous actor’s tenures: the suaveness of Connery’s movies, the goofy fun of Moore’s movies, and the subversiveness of Dalton’s movies. Following his debut, which was acclaimed for reinventing the franchise, Brosnan’s stint went downhill, necessitating a gritty reboot in the form of Casino Royale. As a result, some of Brosnan’s Bond films are more warmly received than others on IMDb.

4 Die Another Day (6.1)

007 Every Pierce Brosnan Bond Movie Ranked By IMDb

Brosnan’s final film in the role of 007 is also his lowest-rated on IMDb. In Die Another Day’s ludicrous plot, Bond investigates the link between a diamond mogul and a North Korean terrorist that could point to the creation of an international space weapon. The villain was panned for the absurd plot point in which he changes the entire coding of his DNA, but Halle Berry’s Jinx ranks among the most memorable “Bond girls.”

This movie was the final nail in the Brosnan era’s coffin, owing to cartoonish set-pieces like Bond surfing on a CG tidal wave. In retrospect, 007 fans can thank Die Another Day for ushering in the gritty, no-nonsense Craig era. Eon responded to the dismissal of Brosnan’s Bond movies and the Austin Powers franchise’s lampooning of the Bond tropes by reinvigorating the series with Casino Royale.

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3 The World Is Not Enough (6.4)

007 Every Pierce Brosnan Bond Movie Ranked By IMDb

Bond is assigned to protect the heiress to an oil empire from her former kidnapper in The World is Not Enough, but he ends up stumbling across yet another nuclear plot along the way. The World is Not Enough is one of the rare Bond movies that doesn’t take its title from a novel or short story written by Ian Fleming; instead, the title comes from the motto on the Bond family coat of arms that was first featured in On Her Majesty’s Secret Service.

The international terrorist villain – Renard, played by Robert Carlyle – has a classic Bond baddie quirk in that he’s unable to feel pain, although the movie doesn’t do much with that quirk. While the fun tone received some praise, The World is Not Enough was criticized for its over-the-top action scenes and poorly executed plotting, not to mention Denise Richards’ unconvincing performance as a nuclear physicist, which was noted in just about every review of the film.

2 Tomorrow Never Dies (6.5)

007 Every Pierce Brosnan Bond Movie Ranked By IMDb

Far-fetched plotting is a big part of the Bond series’ charm, but for some critics, Tomorrow Never Dies went beyond the pale. Rather than an international terrorist or a megalomaniac bent on world domination, the villain in Tomorrow Never Dies is a Rupert Murdoch-esque media mogul who plans to stoke a war between Britain and China purely so he can have exclusive coverage of the ensuing chaos.

This premise felt more like an Austin Powers spoof of a Bond movie than an actual Bond movie. Understandably, Tomorrow Never Dies was initially met with mixed reviews. Some appreciated the satire of unscrupulous media practices, while others found it distracting and ham-fisted in a Bond adventure.

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But Tomorrow Never Dies has stood the test of time surprisingly well, with some publications even calling it prophetic. The movie has been retroactively lauded for its ahead-of-the-curve take on mass media and around-the-clock news. It was enthusiastically reappraised by Den of Geek in the context of Brexit.

1 GoldenEye (7.2)

Brosnan’s first movie in the role of Bond, GoldenEye, was widely praised as a stellar debut and it remains by far his greatest contribution to the franchise. With the smoldering charms of Sean Connery, the wry humor of Roger Moore, and the subversive edge of Timothy Dalton, Brosnan introduced his Bond as a combination of all the Bonds that came before. The plot sees 007 grieving the death of a fellow 00 agent as he tracks down the villain responsible for the theft of a secret government space weapon – only to discover that the villain is the 00 agent he thought was dead.

Under the direction of Martin Campbell, GoldenEye successfully reinvented the Bond franchise. It’s a bombastic, crowd-pleasing, action-packed blockbuster that blew audiences away with beautifully staged set-pieces like the opening bungee jump, the tank chase, and the dizzying satellite dish finale. But it also adapted the 007 mythos for the modern era. Brosnan’s Bond is called out by the new female M – played by Judi Dench, who continued to inhabit the role for almost two decades – for being “a sexist, misogynist dinosaur” and “a relic of the Cold War.”

Just over a decade after successfully updating the Bond series with GoldenEye, Campbell returned to the franchise to do it all over again with Casino Royale. Once more, Campbell shook up the Bond movies’ archaic tropes for an evolving cinematic landscape with a game-changing gritty reboot.

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