The World is Not Enough (1999)

The World is Not Enough, Bond #19, is the last Bond film of the 20th century and the final of Desmond Llewellyn's 17 appearances as Q. It's a little surprising that it took the franchise this long to get to a plot centered around an oil scheme, this on involving threats to pipelines near the Caspian Sea. While I liked it well enough when I saw it theatrically, I would now have it say its one of the weakest Bond, with nothing much memorable to commend it. While I liked the boat chase up the River Thames the first, now it feels forced and a little hokey. John Cleese is introduced as Q's ultimately short lived replacement R, Robert Carlyle is an anarchist terrorist, and Denise Richards is hardly credible as a nuclear scientist. Robbie Coltrane returns as Valentin Zukovsky. Exotic locations include Spain, Scotland, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan and Turkey. The opening title song is garbage, or rather it is performed by the band Garbage (I don't know who they are either). **