History Film / TheWorldIsNotEnough

-->Q: Always have an escape plan. ''(Q activates the lift and descends into the basment.)''

* InstrumentOfMurder: A flamethrower bagpipe tested by Q Branch.

Pierce Brosnan's third ''Film/JamesBond'' film. Bond is sent to investigate a possible assassination plot against a once-kidnapped daughter of a {{Ruritania}}n oil baron after he died securing money for her release.

* BrickJoke: While talking to the new Q, Bond puts on a pair of blue-ish sunglasses and looks him up and down, smirking slightly but never ackonlwedging it. An hour later in the film we see that those are X-ray glasses that let him see through clothing.

* ToThePain: [[spoiler: Elektra]] gets OFF on this...

* BombThrowingAnarchists: Renard is also known as "Renard the Anarchist", but he espouses no anarchist philosophy. Instead, his career as a terrorist has been spent [[TerroristsWithoutACause blowing things up]] ForTheEvulz.

* KarmaHoudini: When Bond is about to kill Renard and stop the movie's plot right there, Christmas Jones butts in and LITERALLY not only saves Renard, but also gives him and his men enough time to steal the bomb which leads to most of the soldiers stationed there getting killed or, at the very least, shot at. Although one could say that she had no way of knowing this and that in the end she was right (Bond was indeed an impostor), the fact that half of the movie's runtime is basically her fault alone and that nobody, not even Bond, even brings it up is quite jarring, specially after repeated viewings.

[[spoiler:The plot thickens when it's learned she isn't as innocent - and the plot as simple - as was once thought. Often cited as the first (and so far only) Bond film with a female villain, though there's a minor InternetBackdraft over whether or not this is true. Also controversial due to arguments over whether or not Bond actually killed the suspected female villain in cold blood, being one of the few times Bond has actually killed a woman he had courted, and the only time he did so in cold blood.]]

* EroticAsphyxiation: [[spoiler:Electra's]] method of executing Bond.
** Actually, the chair isn't meant to asphyxiate, after a certain number of turns the bolt in the back of the chair breaks the neck. It's old torture equipment.

* GenreBlind: {{Garbage}}. The theme song includes the line "No one ever died from wanting too much." This is ''precisely'' how every JamesBond film ends.

* DidntSeeThatComing: [[spoiler: Elekcra]] didn't in a million years imagine that [[spoiler: James would actually shoot her.]]

* ShootTheDog: Bond's execution of [[spoiler: Elektra King]]

Pierce Brosnan's third ''Film/JamesBond'' film. Bond is sent to investigate a possible assassination plot against a once-kidnapped daughter of a [[{{Ruritania}} Ruritanian]] oil baron after he died securing money for her release.

Pierce Brosnan's third ''Film/JamesBond'' film. Bond is sent to investigate a possible assassination plot against a once-kidnapped daughter of a [[{{Ruritania}} Ruritanian]] oil baron after he died securing money for her release.

* ContinuityNod:
** Elektra asks Bond if he has ever lost a loved one. The uncomfortable look on his face and the manner in which he changes the subject is a [[Film/OnHerMajestysSecretService dead giveaway]] to long-time Bond fans.

* HotScientist: Christmas Jones.

-->'''Q''': You're not here to think, you're here to do what I tell you!

** In the same film, after MI6 is bombed and James is looking out the hole in the building wall, he sees a laser sight just in time to duck out of the way. The shooter was located on a boat, about 300-400 meters away, with a G36 equipped with a scope. And she missed.

* SnarkToSnarkCombat: JamesBond vs. JohnCleese

** More like TooDumbToLive. He told her, at gunpoint, to call off the sub. She instead tells it to dive. This is after she just spent a few minutes taunting him about how he wouldn't kill her. SmugSnake plus TemptingFate? She deserved to get shot.

* BombThrowingAnarchists: Renard is also known as "Renard the Anarchist", but he espouses no anarchist philosophy. Instead, his career as a terrorist has been spent blowing things up [[TerroristsWithoutACause for the evulz]].

** Subverted with Christmas herself. Even when all the other characters have an accent one way or another, she's the only character without one. That's right, a russian nuclear scientist that somehow speaks BETTER english than the main character.

* FriendlyEnemy: Bond and Zukovsky. Despite disliking each other at their last meeting in ''GoldenEye'', and still distrustful of each other here, Zukovsky instantly joins forces with Bond when he realizes [[spoiler:the extent of Elektra and Renard's depravity, and in fact, dies saving Bond's life.]]

Pierce Brosnan's third JamesBond film. Bond is sent to investigate a possible assassination plot against a once-kidnapped daughter of a [[{{Ruritania}} Ruritanian]] oil baron after he died securing money for her release. [[spoiler:The plot thickens when it's learned she isn't as innocent - and the plot as simple - as was once thought. Often cited as the first (and so far only) Bond film with a female villain, though there's a minor InternetBackdraft over whether or not this is true. Also controversial due to arguments over whether or not Bond actually killed the suspected female villain in cold blood, being one of the few times Bond has actually killed a woman he had courted, and the only time he did so in cold blood.]]

** Elektra asks Bond if he has ever lost a loved one. The uncomfortable look on his face and the manner in which he changes the subject is a [[OnHerMajestysSecretService dead giveaway]] to long-time Bond fans.

** It also got title dropped several decades ahead of time in ''OnHerMajestysSecretService''.