Search - Tomorrow Never Dies [Special Edition] on DVD

MPAA Rating: PG-13 Content Advisory: Violence, Adult Situations, Adult Humor Movie Release: 1997 DVD Release: 10/22/2002 Format: DVD - Enhanced Wide Screen Letterbox for 16x9 TV Audio Tracks: English, French Subtitles: English, French, Spanish SwapaDVD Credits: 1 Number of Discs: 1 Run Time: 1 hrs 57 mins Studio: MGM Total Copies: 2 Genres: Spy Film, Action Thriller, Glamorized Spy Film See Also: Tomorrow Never Dies, Tomorrow Never Dies [Limited Edition], Tomorrow Never Dies

Roger Spottiswoode (Air America) directed this film, the 18th chapter in the 35-year-old James Bond series (excluding Casino Royale and Never Say Never Again). James Bond (Pierce Brosnan) learns billionaire media mogul Elliot Carver (Jonathan Pryce) is manipulating world events via an exclusive flow of information through his satellite system reaching all corners of the planet. With a stealth battleship sinking a British naval vessel, Carver sees that the Chinese are blamed. Crashing Carver's party in Hamburg, Bond meets "journalist" Wai Lin (Michelle Yeoh), later revealed as a Chinese agent. In a brief tryst, Bond renews his past relationship with Carver's wife Paris (Teri Hatcher). Carver dispatches Stamper (Gotz Otto) and other goons to cancel Bond, who eludes attackers with some of his new gadgets. In Southeast Asia, after Bond and Wai Lin scuba dive into the sunken British ship, they are captured by Stamper, handcuffed, and taken to Saigon where they make a motorcycle escape. To thwart Carver's plans for WWIII, the two agents head for Carver's stealth ship where a cruise missile is aimed at Beijing. Principal photography began April 1, 1997 in the new Eon Productions studio facility at Frogmore, northwest of London, and on the 007 stage at Pinewood Studios. Locations included the UK, Hamburg, Southeast Asia, Mexico, and off the Florida coast. The trademark Bond pre-title sequence was filmed in the French Pyrenees snowfields, centered around one of the few high-altitude operational airfields in Europe. ~ Bhob Stewart, All Movie Guide

Pierce Brosnan - James Bond
Jonathan Pryce - Elliot Carver
Michelle Yeoh - Wai Lin
Teri Hatcher - Paris Carver
Joe Don Baker - Wade

Featuring an anamorphic 2.35:1 digital transfer and Dolby Digital Sound, this DVD version of =Tomorrow Never Dies includes two audio commentaries, a storyboard overlay feature, a James Bond history featurette, a music video, a digital effects reel, trailers, a music-only track, and an interview with composer David Arnold. An overall impressive package, the wealth of supplements is both a blessing and a curse. The two feature-length commentaries are scene-specific, the track with Roger Spottiswoode representing the outsider's view and the Michael G. Wilson and Vic Armstong track placing everything in Bond context. Unfortunately, neither track has quite enough energy to sustain a thorough listen. The storyboard overlay feature is unique to this title in the series, and if not necessarily insightful is at least a neat gimmick for displaying the action sequence storyboards. The "Secrets of 007" series is taken from a television broadcast and is mostly fluff, while the Sheryl Crow music video is mostly forgettable. The other substantive supplement of note is the digital effects reel, running without narration, but nonetheless showing how crucial digital effects have become to the making of action films. MGM would eventually hone and refine their presentation of the Bond DVDs in the subsequent releases, but this original release still deserves a nod as the disc that got studios thinking seriously about supplements. ~ Oliver Thornton, All Movie Guide