World Is Not Enough, The

THE WORLD IS NOT ENOUGH

RATING: PG-13

STARRING: Pierce Brosnan, Sophie Merceaux, Robert Carlyle, Dame Judi Dench, Denise Richards, Desmond Llewellyn, John Cleese and Robbie Coltrane

DIRECTOR: Michael Apted

DISTRIBUTOR: MGM

GENRE: Spy Thriller

INTENDED AUDIENCE: Older teenagers and adults

SUMMARY: In The World Is Not Enough, James Bond must foil a plan to nuke Istanbul and control Western Europe's future oil supply. Bond comes up against several dastardly villains, including a terrorist who has been rendered impervious to pain.

Some plot twists tarnish the movie's one image of family purity and severely undercut Bond's heroics, morally speaking. Only about half of the movie's action sequences provide the kind of fun thrills audiences expect. Finally, the movie ends on a note of blasphemy that sullies the Name of Jesus Christ and the history of the Savior's virgin birth. Given all this, Movieguide(R) must give an extreme caution to 007's latest shenanigans. Family viewers likely will be shaken, not stirred, by The World Is Not Enough.

CONTENT: Internationalist worldview with moral elements of good battling evil, plus some cruel, immoral methods used by hero (including one indirect blasphemy), and a reverent scene where female oil company owner re-routes pipeline around small, historical Russian Orthodox church; 3 mild obscenities, 2 mild profanities, 1 indirect blasphemy that ends the movie, and several mild sexual references; moderate level of action violence with mostly implied deaths, explosions, automatic gunfire, man impaled, a few depicted deaths, and some physical/emotional cruelty; implied fornication, partial nudity in sexual context plus wet Tshirt reveals upper-female nudity, alcohol use; smoking; and cruelty not always rebuked, revenge, betrayal, stealing, kidnapping, adult child has father assassinated, and innocent lives threatened for personal gain but hero defeats threat.

Quality: * *

Acceptability: -2

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