 everyone to another long overdue movie reaction. My name is Jeroen, better known as Dutch Bond fan and returning once again is my lovely girlfriend, Lirit. Hi. Today we are watching 1997's Tomorrow Never Dies. We left off at the Pierce Brosnan era previously. We watched his first movie GoldenEye and now we reached his second movie which I'm sure you remember was one of your favorites or at least I should say it featured your favorite Bond girl. Wayland! Wayland? Yes, that's right. Because previously we did sort of an unprepared format where we watched some of the Bond movies, most of the Brosnan ones and we didn't really film it in a movie reaction type of way. That must have been in 2021 or so. So a good three years ago since you've seen this movie. I think so. So like the previous two which you've also saw for a second time they still felt like first time watches to you. But what do you remember from Tomorrow Never Dies? When they're sitting on the motorcycle with the tape or the... We did it with tape. We re-enacted that scene. But it was handcuffs, right? Handcuffs, yes. So when I got here... When did you get that? I just picked it up before the video sneakily. So I'm gonna... I didn't know that you had this in your house. I'm gonna handcuff us together. Don't act like you've never done this before. Oh shit! Wow! Okay, how did they do this? They had like a couple of positions. First they... The car and then... This is difficult. Teach her the wrong way. You should be on the top. Let's try it again. Alright, try and get over my neck. Or did we do it wrong again? No. Alright, this time it works. So this is the one where he's redriving and you're driving the other way. Don't get so fucking... We're driving like this. There we go. So, and then he was driving like this. But what, one arm? Yeah, well... He was driving... Oh no, he was driving like this. He was driving like this. No, no! That she has her own layer. Right. With guns. Do you remember anything about this plot or the villains? Yes, it was... The bad guy had like grey hair with glasses. And I remember that I didn't like him very much. Right. I think that's... He wasn't a bad guy for me. Alright, that's what you... So you remember more about this one than you did from... Maybe it was Gould and I and Lices to Kill previously. Yes, because of waiting. But are you still excited to re-watch this with fresh eyes? And maybe hopefully enjoy the villain more? Because he's actually... Obviously you don't like the way he is a Bond villain, but he plays it pretty differently compared to others. So maybe you would enjoy more. Yes, but the Lices to Kill, that bad guy, was a real bad guy. Oh yeah, that's my favourite villain, yeah. And the movie before this one, Gould and I, that was an MI6 bad guy. So we had like two bad guys to... Top. Top. Yeah, if you compare this one, Elliot Carver to the previous two, that's gonna be tough. But I hope you would still, regardless, it still has your favourite Bond goon, you would still hopefully enjoy it. This is a very action-packed movie. Definitely a typical 90s movie. It came out in 97. I was seven years old at the time this was released. You were five. So we were both born in this era of Bond. Obviously, Pierce Brosnan, you're familiar with him as Bond. You saw him in GoldenEye last time. Are you excited to see him return again as Bond? Also in romantic comedies. Yeah, that's right. Yeah, we watched him in other movies too. But do you like him as Bond? Yes, I like him as Bond. Well, without any further ado, let's see how Ulirit enjoys re-watching this time in the new format Tomorrow Never Dies. Oh, and if you want to watch the full-length reaction, be sure to check out my Patreon page below where all the premium supporters can watch the whole thing and all the previous full-length reactions of other movie reactions, including non-Bond movies that we're doing. And you can always check them out over there. They're all listed in the Discord server. Anyway, without any further ado, let's now re-watch Tomorrow Never Dies. At a Brosnan movie, they tend to start at the military bases, right? Mm-hmm. Oh, this is the black market. Yeah. It's like a terrorist supermarket. Ha ha ha. Join me. I didn't remember this. That's good. That's not waste time. My man isn't finished. They just jump her. Get your man out of there. His job is over. They want to blow it up. On my count. And they will fail. They will fail. Oh, my God. There it goes. Oh, my God. Those are Soviet SB-5 nuclear torpedoes. What's that? If you blow that up, the whole half of the country goes up. I bought missile. It doesn't work. I bought missile out of range. And a- That's stupid. White Knight, come in. Keep trying down- And that's James Bond. He'll fly with the torpedoes away. Where? You'll have to see. I think so. Wait with it. Filthy habit. His job. Yeah. You already saw the subtitles. Do you see his fly go- But does it come back? What? No, I'm just guessing now. Obviously, you've seen it three years ago, but- You don't remember this scene? No. You did it with his legs? The button you were- Oh, that's- Admiral Ware, he'd like his bombs delivered. The injector seat went into the other back seat. Fantastic open. You can see the theme already with the TVs and the media. Oh, yeah. It was kind of ahead of its time, you know, the 90s with the media. Is that your watch? Oh, he actually does wear a similar one to this in the movie, but I'm wearing a B brand. But yeah, you're right. Omega Seamaster, I think he wears in this movie. Actually, the credit song, the end credit song, that was the opening song that Cue the Music played for- Well, when we were at Cue the Music last October. What are you saying? What are they doing? They say you're in our territory, but the British, they're sure they're not. Do you remember that red box? Yes. It fucks up their GPS location, so they're- Oh, and now someone is- They're instigating the war. Do you remember this? So, these are the bad guns. Obviously, yeah. What's this? A bomb? A sea drill. What's a sea drill? It's a drill that can travel through the sea. And it wasn't the Chinese. How can they sleep at night? And now he can make the news. Actually, a different word. Survive. Delicious. Bond villains. They find it delicious. We have a perfect story with which to launch our satellite news network tonight. I don't know what I think of him. It's God Sinister. Yes, that is. He's like the crazy bad guy. And he's playing in the toilet. I'm just up here at Oxford, brushing up on a little Danish. Little Dento. Ha ha ha. Sometimes, I think you have the balls for this job. Perhaps. The advantage is I don't have to think with him all the time. That's enough. Remind her. Then pump her for information. You'll just have to decide how much pumping is needed, James. In the previous movie, M was like your sexist misogynist dinosaur. And now in this movie, she's like, pump her for information. If it involves the missions, he doesn't mind. Still a disgusting. If you just sign here, Mr. Bond. One of his last movies, right? In coverage. Yes. Fire, your new BMW 750. That's another car. Well, in the Boston movies, it's usually the BMWs, right? Or your finger. This was before smartphones, right? Cross the pad. To drive the car. Oh! It's a car. What's this? Yeah. Moreover, there's even less. Remember? Daphne Deckers. Yeah. Crisis. My Lin? Yeah. You should work in my Beijing bureau. Mr. Car... Terry Hatch show. Perhaps I should commission you to write a novel. Oh, no, I've been lost at sea. I've been lost at sea. I have a problem with a banker. Could I see you a moment? But he doesn't suspect Wei Lin at all, since he's actually doing it smarter. Beg in return. He's just... All favor. I promise. No, cut it out. That is the goal of the Carver media. Get out of my sight. That was Daphne Deckers part. But she hasn't changed much, right? In all these years. She's older now? Obviously. Elliot Carver was cut off the air tonight in mid-speech. I told you I barely know him. I spent some fire. He's going to kill her. Someone else would play this part tonight. Yeah, I was just about to tell you. You know who? No. Monica Baluchi. Oh, yes. That would have been a lot better, especially during that time. I don't know about you, but to me it's not believable. No, for me either. Because I think it could have been with a different actress, or maybe a past bond girl that you actually know their relationship. Because now with just tools, they have had a fling in the past. He doesn't see it. And be careful. It's worth $300 million. You break it, you ball. Understand? Break it. Did you saw it in the briefcase? It was a floppy. Yeah. The skeptrive. It's the 90s. But this was pretty modern. This was before we all had gadgets in our phone. Yeah. So that way it was still cool. Looking for a news story? They're all shooting at him. And meanwhile... She's like, work smarter, not harder. It is. Do you print anything these days? The red box is the bond. And my wife. But she's dead. She's dead, right? He killed her already. He's become an international figure. And she became the wife of Elliot. He had to be the victim of a self-inflicted gun wound. He reached the body's private jet. I have a clear shot at your head, Mr. Bond. That's the doctor. But this is very well done. The news is being broadcasted before it happens. Well, it's not being broadcasted. It's on a tape. They can't break it, right? That even was great. This is super armor. Wish my car had that. Oh, you can't be serious. Did you call the outer club? Okay, I ask. How do you know? I feel like an idiot. I don't know what to say. My cell phone opens the door. No, no, no, Mr. Bond. I do it, yeah? But there's also like... in the cell phone, right? Wait! I'm just a professional drinker. Me too. Me too. Such a cool moment, right? You remember that? No. You did know his response? Well, I think everyone has a response. That's a cool moment. It's so cool. This was the other action sequence. Do you remember this one? No. This is so cool. Pedestrians in World Bank. Pedestrians in Roadway. But now they catch you on the... Yeah, that's exactly... That's like weird. Maybe if... Yeah, because I said it in my review. How does it all of a sudden break the armor now? Yeah. Maybe the super armor stops when the car is started or something? No, I think it does. But that doesn't make sense. Because they did it with the sledgehammer. Yeah. And it couldn't break. And now with that with the car? Well, machine gun bullets. It's possible with rackets. It's a big armor. German, right? It's always big. His own pins. Went through the windows. Yeah. Hide into the insurance. Paris just died. But he's already like, Oh, this is fun. He already forgot about her pretty much. My first marriage. That's funny, right? They're just dolls in real life. Or what? Well, maybe they use real people, but it's probably filmed in like a swimming pool or something. Who's this? Who's this? How did she find the ship? She doesn't even have the encoder. The Chinese. They know everything. But it's never explained. They couldn't get into the... But even if you're out, you still have to swim all the way up. Yeah. In one breath. In one breath, yeah. Still interested in hostile takeovers? The opportunities were trouble. And I like best about... That's fake having typed. Yeah, yeah. The Kaufman's record was 52 hours. I'm hoping to break it. I would have thought watching your TV shows was torture enough. If we were like, cuffed to each other, I was like, No, no, no, I'm jumping. I'm not jumping. But then they're dead. This is the best scene with the Bond girl for chase with a... Chase sequence? Yeah. Little houses, right? Yes. That's a great stunt, right? Is that real? Yeah, they did it for real. Who are they? So he knows he might be in danger. But it looks like the guys are in danger more than she is. Yeah. This is cool because she's doing this herself. Yeah. She didn't want... I would do the same. Ha! Ha! Ha! I just think that Brosson generally didn't know that was gonna happen. It's like he loses character for a moment. Ha Long Bei. Ha Long Bei. Ha Long Bei. I think this is an area of Thailand in the real life. It looks like... This is scary, man. Yeah. I think that's... At one point you can see the Mamdegongan Island in the background. He always survives. Well... Not always the last one. You get about no time to die, but normally he always... The last time he died. The way he does that... I always laugh at that moment. The way he looks so stupid when he does that. I'm re-enacting him. Lord England. By sending this missile into Beijing. Arriving. Just exclusive broadcasting rights in China for the next hundred years. That's quite something, actually, when you think about it. Yeah. The power of information is everything. You notice it in real life, too. In real life, is that also? Related to the media to say that. Who's that? Look at William Randolph. Sorry about that. I, uh... You're not dead remote. Me, too. Uh-huh. So do I. So do I. I'll just blow up your ship then. What's China? Until then, she's yours. I'll take one. One bill of that. One. When's he used them properly? Your drill. I may have some breaking news for you, Elliot. But it's the bond, though. It's very quick. So they always have to go in a big way, right? Never argue with a woman. They're always breaking. Sweetie? But now she's in the water. She said, like, uh... That you have to stop the missile and not save her, right? The mission comes first. Yeah. It's personal to him. It's a good henchman. With Stanford, you can totally see that's a German guy. Yeah, but he also, like... Like, his hair is brown. You see in the film, his hair is brown, but if you see closely, his hair is brown. You can see that. Yeah, I think you're right. It's dyed. Yeah, that's true. And he has two different color eyes. I was wondering if you noticed that. Yeah, yeah, yeah! I'm so surprised you found that out in the first film, because I found that out only a couple of years ago. Also, he has two colored eyes. Did you notice in the movie? One is blue, one is green. Yeah. With his feet stuck? Fire sea above them. This is for air, right? Well, the music makes it also kind of a romantic moment as well, because he saves her. Yes. The local authorities believe the media mogul committed suicide. Let's stay undercover. The world is saved. Awesome. They start with this song. Okay, we finished re-watching Tomorrow Never Dies. Yeah. This was your second time watching this film. You seemed to really enjoy it during the reaction. But what are your thoughts re-watching this again? I enjoyed it. And some of the parts I didn't remember. And some of the parts I did. Yeah, you forgot the whole opening sequence with the missile and the escape. And also, you forgot the car part sequence with the... with the game joystick. Yeah. Those are good sequences though, right? Well, I forgot. Of course, but did you enjoy? Yes, I enjoyed it. But you did remember the highlight of the film with the handcuffs? With the handcuffs, yes. We did that with tape. But did it work? I don't remember. I don't recall. Did what work? With the handcuffs. Because they did like this and also like this. So, let's start into the actual verdict. Starting once again as we always do in this format with Bond's performance. Pierce Brosnan's second Bond film. What did you think of his second outing as James Bond 007? Five stars. Pierce Brosnan got five stars. This is very rare because you usually give either four or three James Bond, so Brosnan really convinced you in this movie. Yes. Can you tell us why you like him as Bond so much? He plays the part very well as Bond, as James Bond. He's believable like that he's 008 Yeah. And also believable as James Bond I think. I think I could believe he's a handsome man obviously that women would fall for him. I also can believe that he is capable of the shooting and the driving that he does. Yeah, he did all this. No, but that's the thing. It's so convincing that it seems to you that he did a lot of it himself. He's believable as an action star and as a charmer. Maybe. Do you think he's a handsome Bond? Or one with what's her name? Terry Hatcher. I didn't believe that scene unfortunately but the other one, the first one in Oxford, I believed. Yeah, but it's not that I don't believe that she wouldn't fall for him. I wouldn't believe that he would be so madly in love with her as a past romance which we talked about during the movie reaction. It may have been so much more convincing had Monica Bellucci been there in the 90s. Maybe that would have been more exotic and maybe that would have been more believable. Bond could fall for a woman like that because it doesn't seem like she would be too... I don't know if she could do the scene. I don't know. She never did that scene. No, that's true. I'm just saying I feel like a lot of maybe it's because usually American Bond girls don't have that exotic nature that I think Bond would fall in love with. Because this wasn't just a previous fling, this was supposed to be someone Bond genuinely had feelings for. But I didn't see her in other Bond movies so I don't know their story. Exactly. That's why we have a missing link. I completely agree that it's some of the... It doesn't hit home that moment when they kiss and she's like, did I get too close and he kind of folds and is like, yes you got too close. I don't believe that at all that moment. Are you a fan of Terry Hatcher? Well, I watch her Desperate Housewife series. Isn't Denise Richards in there as well? She's in the next one, of course. No, I don't... Denise Richards, no. She's in another thing you watch. Yes. That's The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills. The Real Housewives. Anyway, we're back to Bond girls instead of housewives. This one featured your favorite Bond girl. I'm not sure if she's ever gonna be tough for you. That was Michelle Yeoh playing Wei Lin. Let me guess. Five stars again for Wei Lin. I'm actually quite happy you gave her five stars. The floor is yours. Talk about Michelle Yeoh. Well, I already said it in the movie reaction why I think she's five stars worthy, but she's also believable as like, she could fight and she's like a secret agent because if you watch the movie for the first time and she like says hello to Bond and what she sees like a news Chinese newspaper or something. That's believable. And also she used the cover like, actually I wasn't on the guest list, I snuck in. And then Kara was like, oh, this is a charming woman. He never started to question her but he immediately was on to Bond. Yeah. Like I will put both my feet like in. And she was like, hi. Yeah. I'm not a secret agent. But also I think she looks really bad as in the climax when she has her two machine guns and she's shooting both ways with the MP5s. Very cool moment. Of course she needed to be saved by Bond too, but it's I don't, she's not like a damsel in distress. No, she just had to be saved. Yeah. But she's very capable as well and you could believe in had it been a different mission she could save Bond just as easily in different situations. Yes. And the motorbike chase of course. And the motorbike chase from someone from the west and someone from the east but from the motorcycle. Yeah, I think there was a picture from recently where now they're both older and I think they're still friends. On the motorcycle? No, not just a normal picture. I'll look it up. I think they're still, because you can tell on screen, they had good chemistry. It was fun, they're dynamic. Yes. Like the arguing, but they also she rejects Bond a few times. Every time and then in the last shot she just said. And then when Carver goes your late friend Mr Bond is on his way to the Chinese sea as my new anchorman. You can see she cares about him she gets mad that Bond was killed. So she secretly did care about Bond in a professional way maybe. Despite being I work alone at first. It always happens. Let's move on to the Bond villains. We had Elliot Carver, Jonathan Price we had Stamper, played by Götz Otto. And Mr Kaufmann as well. He had a brief scene, the assassin with the quirky German assassin. Oh the doctor. So what did you think of the villains? Three stars. Three stars, that's pretty decent. Talk about what you thought about the villains in Tomorrow Never Dies. They're good villains, but they're better villains in other Bond movies. But I think three stars is very decent for Bond villains. They did a good job with everything bad. And the last scene when the main Bond villain character how he died. That's pretty good right at the moment with the drill. Yeah. Give the people what they want. And the other one Mr Stamper with the missile. Yeah. He seems to not, when a knife got hit into him a few times, he doesn't seem to feel pain at all. But he fought. Yeah he was when his foot was stuck. When his foot was stuck he just got along with fighting with James Bond. Yeah, he's a good henchman. But those two were very disturbing deaths. And the one, the doctor was also like He's a cruelty character that you remember, a kind of. Bond just shot him in the head. He took you from Stuttgart and still creates the proper effect. Stuttgart far from Yeah. Yeah. Only the other one. Yeah. He was kind of a missed opportunity because other than the coding machine and being an IT expert his role was kind of reduced like I told you during the movie reaction he originally was going to throw cards. But I think they also wasted another opportunity. And he's a magician. Yes, but how did, if they wanted to put the magician cards into the movie how would they do that? Well I can show you the deleted scenes. There's one where he practices and there's the moment where Bond and Waylin are stuck in the tower on Saigon and the torture equipment comes out he was going to throw in that moment as well. But I was going to say I think it was an opportunity because the torture equipment comes out and it's actually quite interesting and disturbing. He wanted to use that equipment and then Bond just blasts his way out of there and none of it ever comes to it. It could have been interesting if they at least started some of the torture or something. Because they told it about what they could have done. Yeah, they introduced it and you feel like something scary is going to happen. They don't use all the potential in this film in that regard. But oh well, three stars for the villains moving on to the locations of the film. What did you think? Four stars. It's another high rating for the locations. Talk about what you thought of how this looked. We began in Russia? Yeah. The opening is in a snowy scene. Then we went to Great Britain. Mostly just... From Great Britain to Hamburg? Yeah. Hamburg to... Was it Great Britain or the South Chinese Sea? Yeah, he does the dive from an American base and then they go to Saigon. And there ended the film. Well, yeah, in the seas near China. So they went all over that side of the world. Did you think the locations looked good in the movie? Yes, in Saigon. Very good. I asked you all so like, did they really filmed in Saigon? Actually, I'm not sure of the answer if it was filmed in Saigon or if they used Hong Kong or some other place. I'm pretty sure it was actually in Asia. Or was it just like... Maybe it was. I know parts were filmed on the back lot in the studio. In the studio. So maybe, but I think a lot of it was on location and some of it wasn't. Like the helicopter hanging that was in the studio back lot and stuff. I know that. But I'm pretty sure some of it is on location. But leave a comment. So they just packed out all Saigon? No, of course not. They never do. But there's always a mix between studio work and actual location. But yeah, so four stars for the locations. Moving on to tomorrow never dies story. What did you think? Four stars. Four stars for the story. What did you think of the story of this film? Pretty easy story. The bad guy wanted to start a war between the Chinese and the English world. So he gets the story first. Yeah. And wants just power in media basically. Ratings. That's it. Did you notice this story was kind of recycled from two previous Bond films? No. Because it was actually the same story as The Spy Who Loved Me and You Only Live Twice. And then Bond teams up with the Russian agent. So it's kind of the third time they use this. But it's good that you didn't really notice. And now he uses like the media. There's always a twist where it's different. Yes. Okay, so four stars for the story. You enjoyed it. You could follow it. Simple. Yes. I agree. This is typical action movie. It's not really a sophisticated story, but it's enjoyable enough. Then you have to think. Yeah. It's enjoyable enough. Which brings us to your enjoyment. Yeah. Five stars. Five stars. It's another high rating. Talk about what else you enjoyed about this film. I was screaming all the time and I was saying their senses. You were repeating what they were saying. Yeah, before they were saying. Yeah. You were really into it. What do you mean? Yeah. Which is a good thing. Yes. So this is one of these Bond films that if it was ever on TV again, or we would want to watch it again, you wouldn't necessarily turn it off immediately. No, because William is in this one and Paris Boston. Yeah. So, overall that brings us to a really positive score of 4.3 which is rounded up to four stars for Tomorrow Never Dies. Are you satisfied with that rating for this film? Basically it comes down to an 8. Yes. Yeah. I think it's very decent for Tomorrow Never Dies too. It's in my number 10 spot of my personal rating. It's actually quite high in my ranking as well, surprisingly because I was always thinking it's kind of a middle ground Bond film. It's very enjoyable and it's also the Bond I grew up with. You know, my Bond of the 90s. So that's nostalgic. And there's a Dutch actress or extra in there. Yeah, Daphne Dekers. She's the PR girl. Yes. Yeah. Anything else you want to mention before we finish off this episode? No. That was it? That was it. Okay. Hope you guys enjoyed her reaction. I hope that Pierce Brosen and Wei Lin make a picture now on the motorcycle with the handcuffs. That's fun to see. Yeah. If they still can do it. Who knows. I'll look up. If they watch this, please do that. I'll look up the picture of Wei Lin and Pierce Brosen nowadays. But anyway, I hope you enjoyed this movie reaction. Next time we will delve into The World Is Not Enough which is the Bond film starring Denise Richards, if you remember. Yes. In the minds, right? Yeah. So there's something with a mind you remember. Anything else? I'm at the poster right now. But I remember the bad guy who couldn't die. Who couldn't die? Yes. He was hurt a lot of times but he didn't die. See what happens in The World Is Not Enough you'll see in the next episode. So, hope you guys enjoyed and take care. Bye guys. Bye.