Yes, there's also the traditional sort of credits sequence featuring nudes in silhouette. This, by the way, is one of this movie's most exciting action sequences. Series-regular Q (the ever-wry Desmond Llewelyn), the original gadget guru, returns with an amazing remote-control BMW that 007 races, while crouched in a car seat, through a parking garage. So is the faithful Moneypenny, again portrayed by Samantha Bond (no relation). Bond's boss - the ironical M, again played by Judi Dench - is back. Other traditions are, in one form or another, maintained in this film, which is dedicated to the memory of the series' late honcho, Albert R. It's Bond himself, however, who declares that his name is "Bond. It's not even clear if this Bond still likes martinis and, if so, if he prefers them "shaken not stirred." Somebody else, ordering 007's drink for him, speaks the traditional line. The James Bond of this movie isn't all that different from a typical Harrison Ford action-flick character. But director Roger Spottiswoode (Air America, TV's And the Band Played On) and screenwriter Bruce Feirstein get around the problem of the spy's obsolescence by restricting characterization to a minimum. The character of Bond, of course, is something of a '50s and '60s dinosaur. Pierce Brosnan is back, having displayed a surprisingly Conneryesque solidity as the 007 of GoldenEye (1995).
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