Tomorrow Never Dies 1997

Gene Siskel, Chicago Tribune: The first James Bond film I've liked in many a year. Read more

Michael Wilmington, Chicago Tribune: Does this work? Is it worth the trouble? Not really. Read more

Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times: Veteran director Roger Spottiswoode has tried to pep the old warhorse up, but the combined inertia of all those pictures over 35 years proves hard to budge. Read more

Jay Boyar, Orlando Sentinel: In Tomorrow Never Dies, the news is mostly good. And when it comes to movies, there's no news like good news. Read more

Steven Rea, Philadelphia Inquirer: After weeks of media bombardment with Tomorrow Never Dies product tie-in commercials, it's clear that the studio and the film's producers have reinvented movie promotion. Now they need to focus their efforts on reinventing the Bond movies. Read more

Janet Maslin, New York Times: This latest film is such a generic action event that it could be any old summer blockbuster, except that its hero is chronically overdressed. Read more

Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader: The 18th James Bond movie features the usual saturation bombardment. Read more

Keith Phipps, AV Club: By sticking to the formula so religiously, Tomorrow Never Dies sells itself short. Read more

Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly: Bond is just a glorified stuntman now; he's lost his license to thrill. Read more

David Denby, New York Magazine/Vulture: You won't miss a thing should you leave well before the end. If more can't be found in Bond than this, I wouldn't object, in principle, to that tuxedo's being hung up in the closet for good. Read more

Jami Bernard, New York Daily News: Yeoh proves so much Bond's equal that they wind up sharing steering privileges on a death-defying motorcycle, her hand on the clutch and his on the brake, their other arms twined around each other. It's a pairing made in sequel heaven. Read more

James Berardinelli, ReelViews: The best Bond film in many years. Read more

Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: Gets the job done, sometimes excitingly, often with style. Read more

Peter Travers, Rolling Stone: If Connery was Sexy Bond and George Lazenby was One-Shot Bond and Roger Moore was Geezer Bond and Timothy Dalton was Bored Bond, then Brosnan should be Posh Bond. Read more

Charles Taylor, Salon.com: Somebody thought it would be a nifty idea for Yeoh, who does her own stunts, to make her Hollywood debut as a Bond Girl. Too bad they weren't smart enough to think of having her make her Hollywood debut as James Bond. Read more

Ruthe Stein, San Francisco Chronicle: Brosnan is fast becoming the second best 007 -- effortlessly competent and coolly sexy. Read more

Naseem Khan, Time Out: Flawed, but fantastic fun all the same. Read more

Todd McCarthy, Variety: A solid but somewhat by-the-numbers entry in the James Bond cycle. Read more

Desson Thomson, Washington Post: Tomorrow Never Dies isn't one of the great Bonds, by any means. But it's familiar, flashy and enjoyable in all the right places. Read more

Rita Kempley, Washington Post: A zippy 007 romp that draws as heavily from the Asian action genre as from the formula that has served the series so well for 35 years. Read more

Joe Morgenstern, Wall Street Journal: In the latest James Bond, our hero saves the world from brand-name unawareness. Tomorrow Never Dies is a dramatized trade show; imagine Comdex or the Geneva Automobile Salon with a plot. Read more