History Film / TheWorldIsNotEnough

*** Of course, Elektra is [[SelfServingMemory "conveniently" ignoring]] the fact that it was her maternal grandfather's decision to pass the company onto his son-in-law rather than his daughter (as confirmed in the script), making this a case of Azeri parochialism rather than British colonialism. [[spoiler: She also shows absolutely no remorse or hesitation at murdering untold countless Azeri diaspora members and other innocents in the greater Istanbum area as part of her master plan.]]

* HoistByHerOwnPetard: Elektra tries to seduce Bond as a means towards furthering her own plans for revenge against [=MI6=]. Although initially successful, Bond catches on pretty early in the film, but even during their final confrontation in Instanbul as he holds her at gunpoint if she fails to stop Renard herself, Elektra still insists that she means too much to Bond for him to bring himself to kill her. [[spoiler:Guess who's proven wrong when she defies him for the last time.]]

* EveryoneIsASuspect: In the aftermath of King's murder, Charles Robinson grimly observes this is the big investigatory hurdle facing MI6. They ''know'' someone close to King swapped out his lapel pin for the disguised detonator, but their only lead -- the Cigar Girl -- committed suicide at the end of the prologue. Given the size of King's organization, and without the Cigar Girl's testimony to help narrow down the field of suspects, it could be anyone anywhere. [[spoiler:Neither Robinson or anyone else in the agency considers that by that same logic, King's daughter should ''also'' be considered a suspect.]]

''The World Is Not Enough'' is the nineteenth Creator/EonProductions ''Film/JamesBond'' film, the last of the 20th century and the third starring Creator/PierceBrosnan, as well as the first one to be released by Creator/MetroGoldwynMayer. It was directed by Michael Apted and was released on November 26, 1999. Music/{{Garbage}} performed the TitleThemeTune.

* GoldTooth: Valentin Zukovsky's bodyguard Mr. Bullion (played by a real-life gold grill wearer, DJ Goldie) has gold teeth.

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** Sir Robert King turned out to be kind of a jackass, all things considered. He was willing to [[spoiler:destroy an ancient church in Azerbaijan--his wife's homeland, no less--for his oil pipeline (which caused the local villagers to riot), and he stole his wife's inheritance]] to further his own ambition and greed.

** Elektra sees herself as this for her Azeri mother, her maternal side of the family and her Azeri heritage. Elektra is resentful of the effects of British colonialism, which allowed Sir Robert (a British man) to financially abuse his foreign wife.

* GoldDigger: A rare gender inversion with Sir Robert King and his Azeri wife; Robert married her to gain access to oil-rich lands near the Caspian Sea that her family owned. According to Elektra, her father was nothing before he married her mother. As a British man with a foreign wife, he was able to seize control of the assets which should've rightfully belonged to Elektra's mother, but the sexism and racism which existed at the time meant that she couldn't reclaim what her husband stole.

* HateSink: [[RichJerk Sir Robert King]] is an [[CorruptCorporateExecutive amoral oil baron]], [[BigBad Elektra King's]] lousy excuse of [[ArchnemesisDad a father]], and [[FreudianExcuse the man who made Elektra's life miserable]]. Robert used his British citizenship to con his immigrant wife out of her own company, emotionally and financially abused her and Elektra, bulldozed centuries-old landmarks to make room for oil pipelines, badly mistreated the locals who protested his actions, and abandoned his daughter to be kidnapped and raped as a teen rather than pay a ransom. In fairness to that last one, that was on M's reccomendation, and an agent was tracking her down. Elektra assassinates him with a booby-trapped briefcase full of money, meaning Sir Robert dies [[DeathByIrony showered in the only thing he ever cared about]].

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[[caption-width-right:300:''[[Music/{{Garbage}} I know when to talk, and I know when to touch\\
No one ever died from wanting too much...]]'']]

[[JustForFun/TheOneWith The one where]] Creator/DeniseRichards plays a nuclear physicist.

** Sir Robert King turned out to be kind of a jackass, all things considered. He was willing to [[spoiler: destroy an ancient church in Azerbaijan--his wife's homeland, no less--for his oil pipeline (which caused the local villagers to riot), and he stole his wife's inheritance]] to further his own ambition and greed.

* BeingTorturedMakesYouEvil: [[spoiler: Heavily implied with Elektra, whether she was corrupted by Renard, or seduced him into her evil plot because she was so incensed at her father's refusal to rescue her.]]

* BerserkButton: It was bad enough that [[spoiler: Elektra betrayed James.]] But they made the mistake of [[spoiler: kidnapping M]].

* BleedEmAndWeep: After shooting dead [[spoiler: Elektra King]], Bond leans over her body and strokes her hair, clearly shaken by what he's done. Pretty significant for a trained assassin.

* 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. [[spoiler: And by the time of the movie, for love. Awww....]]

** 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 give-away]] to long-time Bond fans, namely [[spoiler: Bond's wife, Tracy]]. Within the confines of the Brosnan films, it could also refer to Bond's OldFlame Paris Carver being murdered [[Film/TomorrowNeverDies in the previous film]].

** Valentin Zukovsky returns as a Bond ally after his first appearance in ''Film/GoldenEye''
* CoolBoat: The Q-Boat. Q claims it was never intended for service, and that it's his personal ''fishing'' boat(!).

* DiabolicalMastermind: Renard is a notorious international terrorist, while [[spoiler: Elektra King was an oil heiress, until she killed her father for revenge and to get rid of the "heiress" part]].

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

* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: The girly, childish way [[spoiler: Elektra runs to the door and jumps in Renard's arms]] is almost reminiscent of a young child running to the door to greet her father who's just returned home from work. This may or may not be the result of [[spoiler: her inversed Electra Complex.]]

* HoistByHerOwnPetard: Elektra tries to seduce Bond as a means towards furthering her own plans for revenge against [=MI6=]. Although initially successful, Bond catches on pretty early in the film, but even during their final confrontation in Instanbul as he holds her at gunpoint if she fails to stop Renard herself, Elektra still insists that she means too much to Bond for him to bring himself to kill her. [[spoiler: Guess who's proven wrong when she defies him for the last time.]]

* KilledOffForReal: [[spoiler: Valentin]].

** A henchman in Bilbao is about to shoot James, when the latter spots a red dot on his chest. [[spoiler: It's Renard who shoots the man so Bond could escape with Sir Robert King's money, which was rigged as an explosive]].

* LoveInterestTraitor: James Bond receives a nasty surprise over the course of the movie. [[spoiler: Namely that Elektra King, his first LoveInterest, is in fact the BigBad.]]

* AMatchMadeInStockholm: [[spoiler: Elektra and Renard]] are a villainous version of this. [[spoiler:He kidnapped her, and she seduced him when her father wouldn't pay the ransom. It is strongly implied that Elektra is ultimately just using Renard to fulfil her own evil agenda, meaning she was a PoisonousCaptive and he a JerkassWoobie; Renard may even realize this, but since he is dying anyway, he'll take what he can get. She quite openly intends to find another man (possibly just as another lovestruck pawn) once Renard has sacrificed himself to carry out her scheme, and she teases Renard (and James Bond himself) that it might even be ''Bond'']].

* TheMole: [[spoiler:Elektra.]] On a lesser note, there's [[spoiler: Bullion]] from within Zukovsky's organization.

* MythologyGag: The ski scene is very similar to the one in ''OHMSS'', and the design of Elektra's ski suit is very similar to Tracy's. [[spoiler: Which makes perfect sense, as she's initially presented as a Tracy replacement, before turning out to be one for Blofeld]]. There's also Bond's method of dispatching a parahawk's parachute by tearing it with his ski; Rick Sylvester, the stuntman who did the ski-parachute jump in ''Film/TheSpyWhoLovedMe'' actually almost died when one of his discarded skis passed dangerously close to ''his'' parachute.

-->'''[[spoiler: Renard]]''': You should show a little gratitude, I did spare your life at the banker's office.

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

* UglyGuyHotWife[=/=]UnholyMatrimony: [[spoiler: Renard and Elektra. Once kidnapper and victim, now he's her adoring lapdog willing to do anything for her while she lavishes gratitude on him.]]

* TheVamp: [[spoiler: Elektra King. She's really keen on having a relationship with Bond and guilt-tripping him, and the reveal that she's the true BigBad of the film cements her as this, to the point that she thinks that Bond wouldn't shoot her. She's wrong.]]

* WalkingSpoiler: [[spoiler:Elektra King, who was previously kidnapped and held for ransom by Renard. However, it's much later revealed that she is in fact the BigBad and working alongside Renard]].

* YouCanKeepHer: M advised this to Sir Robert, as the UsefulNotes/SecretIntelligenceService does not give in to terrorists. [[spoiler: Elektra later repays M in kind by holding her hostage in a dingy tower prison cell]].

** Apart from Bond's classic Walther PPK, we also have the uniquely-shaped P90 submachine gun, Steyr TMP machine pistol, and G36 with laser sight making appearances. Not to mention the heavily-tricked-out [=HK21=] the Cigar Girl has mounted on her speedboat, and especially Zukovsky's [[SwordCane cane gun]].

[[caption-width-right:300:''[[Music/{{Garbage}} No one ever died from wanting too much...]]'']]

''The World Is Not Enough'' is the nineteenth Creator/EonProductions ''Film/JamesBond'' film, the last of the 20th century and the third starring Creator/PierceBrosnan. It was directed by Michael Apted and was released on November 26, 1999. Music/{{Garbage}} performed the TitleThemeTune.

[[JustForFun/TheOneWith The one where]] Creator/DeniseRichards plays a [[HotScientist nuclear physicist]].

* HotScientist: This concept is stretched to beyond credibility by introducing Dr. Christmas Jones, a twenty-something nuclear physicist with large breasts. Needless to say, she and Bond end up in bed together.

* TheMagicPokerEquation: An interesting subversion of this happens when Elektra King bets a million dollars on a high-card draw at the casino... and loses (though the loss was only by a slim margin; a king versus an ace). Turns out, the bid was a buyout for a favour, so the loss would've happened, anyway. Interestingly, before the cards were drawn, Bond demanded the top three cards be buried to prevent tampering with the deck, and an OhCrap expression hits the dealer's face immediately.

* RewatchBonus: [[spoiler:Elektra doesn't seem to care about losing a million dollars in Zukovksy's casino. Turns out she's discretly paying him off for a smuggling job his nephew did]].

* VillainousPlanInertia: Killing [[spoiler:Elektra]] doesn't interrupt her plan to nuke Istanbul in the least, as Renard is perfectly happy to do so [[spoiler:in her memory]].

* CoolGuns[=/=]RareGuns:

* AlwaysSaveTheGirl: As Bond is chasing [[spoiler:Elektra]], an imprisoned M (who fears that she may soon die in a nuclear meltdown if Renard has his way) yells out Bond's name as he passes by her cell. 007 then uses the ShootOutTheLock method to free his boss before he continues his pursuit. When Bond later boards Renard's submarine, the first thing he does is finding a henchman to show him where Christmas Jones is kept captive so he can free her.