An average movie

Nowadays, Daniel Craig has been hailed as a great James Bond. Indeed, all of his movies have been really successful at the box-office and at least 2 of them are considered as major classics in this franchise (‘Casino Royale’ and ‘Skyfall’). It is all well and quite deserved but, as a result, we all tend to look down a bit on Pierce Brosnan, the previous James Bond actor, and I think that’s too bad. In my opinion, when Brosnan took over with this first movie, the challenge to actually succeed was actually much greater than for Daniel Craig. Indeed, it was already 6 years since the last James Bond installment was released, all the movies with Timothy Dalton were flops and, at least, half of the movies starring Roger Moore were in fact pretty weak and many thought that this franchise was pretty much dead at that point. Well, this movie eventually turned out to be a big success and really revived this franchise which is still going strong 20 years later. Basically, Pierce Brosnan was really awesome, easily one of the best James Bonds, Famke Janssen was one of the best villains used in this franchise, I loved the soundtrack by Eric Serra and the whole thing was simply quite entertaining. Eventually, to be honest, it failed to really blow me away because it was too safe and it still followed too closely the traditional formula but I still think it is a solid James Bond feature and it is definitely worth a look, especially if you like the genre.