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The World Is Not Enough

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The World Is Not Enough

As the countdown begins for the new millennium there is still one number you can always count on.

1999128 min6.3/10
AdventureActionThriller

Greed, revenge, world dominance and high-tech terrorism – it's all in a day's work for Bond, who's on a mission to protect a beautiful oil heiress from a notorious terrorist. In a race against time that culminates in a dramatic submarine showdown, Bond works to defuse the international power struggle that has the world's oil supply hanging in the balance.

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Dr. No1962From Russia with Love1963Goldfinger1964Thunderball1965You Only Live Twice1967On Her Majesty's Secret Service1969Diamonds Are Forever1971Live and Let Die1973The Man with the Golden Gun1974The Spy Who Loved Me1977Moonraker1979For Your Eyes Only1981Octopussy1983Never Say Never Again1983A View to a Kill1985The Living Daylights1987Licence to Kill1989GoldenEye1995Tomorrow Never Dies1997The World Is Not Enough1999Die Another Day2002Casino Royale2006Quantum of Solace2008Skyfall2012Spectre2015No Time to Die2021Untitled James Bond Film
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In Tomorrow Never Dies, MI6 sends James Bond to scout a terrorist arms bazaar on the Russian border, but the mission is aborted. Media baron Elliot Carver obtains an encoder from the bazaar and uses it to provoke war between China and the UK by sinking the HMS Devonshire. Bond investigates Carver and his company, CMGN, and seduces Carver's wife, Paris, to get information, but she is killed by Carver's assassin. Bond teams with CIA contact Jack Wade and Chinese agent Wai Lin to investigate the wreck of the HMS Devonshire, discovering a missing cruise missile. They board Carver's stealth ship to prevent him from firing the missile at Beijing. After a series of intense confrontations, Bond kills Carver and saves Wai Lin as the missile explodes, destroying the ship and killing Carver's henchman, Stamper. Bond and Wai Lin escape amidst the wreckage, having prevented a war between China and the UK.
Adapted from WikipediaTomorrow Never DiesCC BY-SA 4.0

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TERM

Anarchist

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PLACE

Bosporus

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TECHNOLOGY

Intercontinental ballistic missile

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CONCEPT

Stockholm Syndrome

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TERM

Nuclear meltdown

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