The World Is Not Enough (1999) *

Directed by Michael Apted. With Pierce Brosnan, Sophie Marceau and Denise Richards. Apted, the celebrated British documentary filmmaker, makes a complete fool of himself trying to direct the 19th installement of the increasingly tiresome spy saga. Once again, 007 screws and shoots his way out of every situation, alternately romancing a teenage nuclear scientist (Richards) and a mysterious Azerbaijani oil tycoon (Marceau). This desperate pot-pourri of lame jokes, ridiculous chases and boring explosions, makes even the worst Roger Moore Bond flick, "A View To A Kill", look good by comparison.