Tomorrow Never Dies: Critic Reviews

This latest film is such a generic action event that it could be any old summer blockbuster, except that its hero is chronically overdressed.

Lead Pierce Brosnan seems distracted, and even the standard pre-credits production number falls flat before the main story begins.

You won't miss a thing should you leave well before the end. If more can't be found in Bond than this, I wouldn't object, in principle, to that tuxedo's being hung up in the closet for good.

The 18th James Bond movie features the usual saturation bombardment.

A solid but somewhat by-the-numbers entry in the James Bond cycle.

Somebody thought it would be a nifty idea for Yeoh, who does her own stunts, to make her Hollywood debut as a Bond Girl. Too bad they weren't smart enough to think of having her make her Hollywood debut as James Bond.

The best Bond film in many years.

Veteran director Roger Spottiswoode has tried to pep the old warhorse up, but the combined inertia of all those pictures over 35 years proves hard to budge.

Bond, James Bond. For mature eyes only.

One watches a Bond film for two hours of spy intrigue, car chases, fights, explosions, and beautiful women, and on that fairly undemanding level, it delivers the goods.

...a briskly-paced and thoroughly entertaining James Bond adventure...

The major episodes are, as always, well-executed.

Kinetic, knowing, crammed with high-tech gadgetry and sophisticated in the most superficial sense of the term: What else could you ask of a James Bond picture?

Efficient action, gleaming product placement and, in Michelle Yeoh, a convincing foil for Bond.

The film seldom reaches the pitch of Goldfinger, but it does stay on tune, thanks to performers who know how to belt out an old favorite.

a great follow up to goldeneye

The winsome pic gives the people what they want. At least, what they want from the Bond franchise.

Even the evil henchman is badly picked: Ricky Jay is a lovable magician, not a hard-nosed killer.

Flawed, but fantastic fun all the same.

Michelle Yeoh is a the lone bright star as the Chinese operative who occasionally, and rewardingly, resorts to Jackie Chan styled chop socky combat.

A crowd-pleaser that does the series justice.

The filmmakers appear to have started with a series of stunts...and built a script around them.

Yeoh is very effective in this film, but the rest of the cast is not.

If you like Bond movies, you'll like it; if you don't, you won't.

Pierce Brosnan's second outing as 007 is even more assured and charismatic than his impressive debut in GoldenEye.