James Bond, The World Is Not Enough. Declassification of the 19th James Bond movie including opening, title song, credits, villains, girls, gadgets, chases, binds, one-liners, and locations.

Opening

• jump from sixth story balcony bound only to window dressing cord anchored by dead body. Boat chase down the River Thames that culminates in perilous jump onto and freefall from cord of hot air balloon as cigar girl tries in vain to escape and chooses suicide over being captured, shooting propane gas tanks and exploding balloon

Title Song/Credits

• "The World Is Not Enough" by Garbage
• naked silhouetted women dancing composed of and dripping with oil

Villains

• Renard "The Anarchist", terrorist with bullet lodged in his brain that interferes with his nervous system and causes him to feel no pain (Robert Carlyle)
• Elektra King, oil heiress with Stockholm Syndrome who teams with her kidnapper, Renard, in a plan to nuke the Caspian Sea and destroy competing oil pipeline shipping route and port (Sophie Marceau)
• cigar girl, assassin (Maria Grazia Cucinotta)

Girls

• Dr. Christmas Jones, nuclear physicist (Denise Richards)
• Elektra King, oil heiress (Sophie Marceau)
• Dr. Molly Warmflash, MI6 doctor (Serena Scott Thomas)

Gadgets

• BMW Z8 with titanium armor, remote-control and side arm rocket launchers
• Bentz jet-propelled boat with heat-seeking missiles and that can barrel roll, submerge and be driven on land
• helicopters with 17-foot arrays of razor-toothed circular saw blades
• para-hawk flying snowmobiles
• x-ray sunglasses
• magnesium detonator for Eurea-dipped money triggered by radio transmitter lapel pin
• cable-shooting and -retracting wrist watch
• 3D holographic display in debriefing room
• infrared thermal imaging system that shows humans and other heat sources through building walls
• eyeglasses detonator
• self-inflating bubble-shell parka
• switch-blade credit card key
• rifle cane

Chases

• boat chase down the River Thames with boat doing barrel roll jump, submerging and taking a shortcut over land
• chased on skis down mountain by para-hawk flying snowmobiles
• chased on foot by helicopter saw blades

Binds

• at gunpoint in meeting with Swiss bankers, uses eyeglasses detonator to create small explosion and then grabs wrist of gunman, twists arm and uses gun to shoot other gunman
• after meeting with Swiss bankers turns deadly, escapes police by tying window dressing strap to dead body on floor and self and jumping off balcony six stories up; falls as dead body gets dragged across floor; fall is stopped exactly as he reaches ground by dead body being stopped by wall below window
• hanging from cord of hot air balloon as cigar girl shoots propane gas tanks to commit suicide rather than being captured, lets go to freefall onto Millennium Dome roof as balloon explodes
• chased by para-hawks, ski jumps off ledge down onto para-hawk, slashing its parasail with his ski blades and causing it to spin out of control into another para-hawk
• in midst of avalanche, inflates bubble-shell parka to save self and Elektra
• with bomb about to blow, runs and grabs chains and glides down shaft just ahead of explosion
• with nuclear bomb inside pipeline, enters pipeline with Christmas to meet up with bomb and remove plutonium from it; leaves low-powered bomb to explode so Elektra will think he's dead
• bound to a torture chair an inch from having his neck broken, gets help from Zukovsky who uses his rifle cane to shoot and break one of Bond's wrist braces; Bond shoves Elektra away as she approaches to finish him off and frees himself
• trapped in separate quadrants of sunk submarine from Renard who is opening up the reactor, holds his breath and swims outside submarine from one hatch to another; but Christmas gets flooded out before she can press the button to let him back in; at the last second before he is out of breath, Christmas dives underwater and is able to press button
• with Renard feeding rod into reactor core, takes loose air hose and attaches it to different nozzle, creating air pressure in reactor core and causing rod to shoot from core and impale Renard
• with hydrogen levels too high in the reactor, escapes through hatch and swims to surface as submarine explodes

One-liners

• "Oh, I'm sure they're perfectly rounded," when asked by cigar girl, "Would you like to check my figures?"
• "And we know how difficult that can be for a Swiss banker," after banker says he's just trying to return the money to its rightful owner
• "Oh, Moneypenny, story of our relationship - close but no cigar," after she deep sixes the cigar he brought her as a gift
• "Well, let's just skirt the issue, shall we?" as he unzips Molly's skirt after she warns their sleeping together would not be smart
• "Whatever the doctor orders," after Molly tells him he better call her after this time if they're going to sleep together
• "I suppose we all have to pay the piper sometime, right Q?" after undercover bagpipe player flame-torches mannequin in the lab
• "If you're Q, does that make him R?" to Q after being introduced to Q's post-retirement successor
• "He seems well suited for the job," to Q after R demonstrates and gets caught up in self-inflating bubble-shell parka
• "I came prepared for a cold reception," after Elektra says she hopes he knows how to ski
• "See ya back at the lodge," after leading para-hawk over cliff
• "I take pleasure in great beauty," after being asked by Elektra what he does to survive
• "I don't know any doctor jokes," after Christmas asks him not to say any jokes about her name - she's heard them all
• "First things first," after Christmas says she has to get the six kilos of plutonium back "or somebody's gonna have my ass"
• "Q's not gonna like this," after helicopter saw blades cut the BMW Z8 in half
• "Too bad we don't have any champagne," as Zukovsky is struggling to tread water in a vat of his own caviar
• "One last screw," as Elektra is sitting on his lap and turning the wheel to tighten the neck brace of the torture chair he is bound to
• "I never miss," after shooting Elktra dead after she said, "You wouldn't kill me. You'd miss me," and failed to call off Renard
• "Always wanted to have Christmas in Turkey," to Christmas, celebrating with champagne after the mission is complete
• "I thought Christmas only comes once a year," to Christmas in bed

Locations

• Caucas Mountains, Azerbaijan
• River Thames, England
• France
• Bilbao, Spain
• Turkey
• Bahamas, underwater

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