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Tomorrow Never Dies 

Gm Gm7 Cm Cm7 D7/G  D7 Fm  Fm7  G

Dm7/g   E --3----   Dm7 --2---
B --1---- --1---
G --2---- --2---
D --0---- --0---
A --X---- --X---
E --X---- --X---

Gm            
Darling I'm killed
Gm7
I'm in a puddle on the floor

Cm          Cm7       D7/G  D7
Waiting for you to return

  Gm         
Oh, what a thrill

   Gm7
Fascinations gallore

        Cm          Cm7             D7/G    D7
How you tease, how you leave me to burn

Fm                   Fm7
It's so deadly, my dear

Fm G
The power of having you near

Chorus:

          Cm  Cm7   Fm  G
Until the day

          Cm7 Fm    G
Until the world falls away

          Cm  Fm  G
Until you say there'll be no more goodbyes

  Fm              G
I see it in your eyes

               Cm     Cm7
Tomorrow never dies...

Cm   G  Cm   G

2nd Verse:

Gm                          Gm7
Darling you've won, it's no fun


Martinis, girls and guns

    Cm         Cm7       D7/G    D7
Its murder on our love affair

                 Gm
But you bet your life every night

            Gm7
While you chase the morning light

       Cm            Cm7      D7/G   D7
You're not the only spy out there

Fm                 
It's so deadly, my dear

Fm7 G
The power of wanting you near


Chorus X2:

Cm Cm7 Fm   G   (4times instumental )

          Cm Cm7 Fm   G
Until the day

          Cm Cm7  Fm  G
Until the day

          Cm Cm7  Fm  G
Until the day

*http://tabs.ultimate-guitar.com/s/sheryl_crow/tomorrow_never_dies_crd.htm


Storyline, Tomorrow Never Dies (1997):



The pre-title teaser takes place on a border region of Russia where a large bazaar of illegally obtained weapons are being sold to international terrorists. Far away, in an observation room, M, her assistant, Robinson and a British admiral, Roebuck, are watching the operation through cameras placed by an agent they've sent into the area. They identify many of the weapons and several of the buyers. Over M's protests, the officers agree to launch a guided missile into the area believing that they will eliminate half of the world's most dangerous criminals. The missile is launched from a British frigate and speeds toward the target just as the command center receives a radio call from their agent on the scene. Among the camera images is a plane holding two powerful soviet nuclear weapons which may be triggered by the guided missile. An attempt to abort the missile attack fails and the agent, who is revealed to be James Bond, rushes into the area to steal the plane and the bombs. The attack causes most of the terrorists to flee the area. Bond reaches the plane and knocks the pilot in it unconscious. He successfully escapes the valley before the missile hits but is pursued by another of the surviving terrorists in a plane identical to his. He evades the 2nd plane, however, the pilot he knocked out awakes and throws a heavy cord around Bond's neck. Bond keeps control of the plane, flying under the 2nd one and activates the rear ejection seat of his own plane, throwing the man up into the other plane, causing it to explode. Bond contacts the command center and tells them he is flying home with the nukes.

In the South China sea, a British missile frigate, the Devonshire, is on patrol and is being threatened by the Chinese air force. They are supposedly far off their course and in Chinese territorial waters, despite what their satellite position tells them. Nearby, an odd-looking boat, equipped with stealth technology, launches a sea-drilling device into the water and punctures the hull of the British ship. It continues into the ship causing much damage and the ship sinks. The boat's commanding officer, Stamper, contacts his boss, Eliot Carver, a British media mogul, to tell him the 1st part of the operation is complete. Carver approves and gives Stamper the go-ahead for the 2nd part: many of the sailors aboard are alive in the water and are killed by Stamper and his men who make sure to use ammunition that would've been used by the Chinese. Back at his own command center, Carver is writing the headline for his international newspaper, Tomorrow, trying to decide if the words "British Soldiers Murdered" will generate the proper outrage.

In London, James Bond is called back to duty during a romantic tryst. He is ordered to investigate the possibility of Carver's involvement in the Devonshire incident, his lead-in being a past relationship with Carver's girlfriend, Paris. Bond travels to Hamburg, Germany where Carver will hold a big unveiling of his new media center. At the airport, he meets Q who provides him with a cellular phone and his car, a BMW 750, which can be driven using the phone.

Bond attends Carver's gala party and reconnects with Paris Carver and meets a new woman, Wai Lin, of the Chinese government's news organization. During the gala party, Bond is apprehended by a few of Carver's thugs who take him to a sound proof room to beat him. He overpowers them and shuts down Carver's broadcast. He returns to his hotel room to find Paris Carver waiting for him. The two sleep together and she tells him a way to infiltrate Carver's Hamburg media headquarters.

The next day, Bond sneaks into the headquarters of Carver's media company and finds the office occupied by Henry Gupta, Carver's communications specialist and known techno-terrorist. In Gupta's safe, Bond finds a CIA decoder device, the same one Gupta took from the arms bazaar Bond infiltrated earlier. It is believed that the device may have been used by Gupta to guide the Devonshire off course. Bond takes the decoder and is leaving the building when he is discovered by the guards. While escaping the factory, Bond spots Lin leaving as well. Bond is able to leave the factory in his car, which he drives to the parking garage of his hotel. He activates the security system and goes to his room. There he finds Paris, dead on the bed. A videotape playing nearby shows an completed Carver broadcast saying Paris was discovered murdered with an unidentified man in a hotel room. An assassin, Dr. Kaufman, holds him at gunpoint and admits he killed Paris. Now he plans to kill Bond as well and frame him for the murder after Stamper recovers the decoding device Bond stole. In the parking garage, the BMW's security system makes it impossible for Stamper and his men to get the decoder. Kaufman threatens to torture Bond, who hands over his cell phone and gives a code to punch in which will unlock the car. The phone sends a powerful electric shock into Kaufman and Bond turns the doctor's gun on the man and shoots him, completing the Carver media image of Paris' death.

Bond returns to the parking garage and activates his car with his phone. He jumps into a rear window and pilots the car from the back seat. Carver's men have set up several traps for him but the car's defenses and weapons allow Bond to escape them. He pilots the car to the top level of the garage and allows it to drive off the edge and plummet to the street where it lands directly in the office of Avis Car Rentals.

Bond reports to the South China Sea where he meets with American and British military officials and his CIA contact, Jack Wade. Bond shows the group how the decoder works and was used to change the location of the Devonshire. Now that they know were to find the sunken ship, Bond will explore it to prove that the ship was deliberately set off-course. Armed with a parachute and scuba gear, Bond must "HALO" jump into the wreck site, opening his chute a short distance above the water to avoid radar detection. The military officials discover that the site of the Devonshire is not actually in Chinese waters but those of Vietnam, making Bond's HALO jump more risky. Bond reaches the wreck and finds Wai Lin there already. The two discover that two of the Devonshire's guided missiles have been stolen. They surface before the ship sinks deeper into the sea and are promptly captured by Stamper on a Vietnamese fishing boat. They are taken to Carver HQ in Saigon, where they reveal they've been working together on the case for months. Carver orders Stamper to torture them both. Bond and Lin, though handcuffed together, start a gunfight and escape the building. They steal a motorcycle and are chased through the streets until cornered by Carver's helicopter. They grab a cable and are able to throw it into the tail rotor of the 'copter, which crashes. Shortly after, while cleaning up, Lin unfastens her handcuff and refastens it to a pipe and leaves Bond behind. He quickly frees himself and tails her to her hideout. She's attacked by several thugs but Bond intervenes and they beat them. They decide to search for Carver's stealth boat together and re-arm themselves.

The two search several areas large enough for Carver to hide his stealth craft and get lucky on the last cove. The board the boat and plan to plant explosive charges to disrupt it's radar cover and make it visible to the British fleet. Lin is captured and Bond sneaks inside. Carver reveals his ultimate plan; he will launch one of the stolen British missiles into China, provoking a war. The new conflict will be covered by his media group and he will bid for exclusive rights to media coverage in China when his secret partner General Chang takes control of the Chinese government and miraculously ends the conflict. Bond is able to take Gupta hostage; Carver kills Gupta openly after the tech-expert tells his boss that the preparations are complete. However, a grenade planted by Bond with a small triggering device goes off, causing a huge explosion. The boat, now visible to radar, is attacked by the British navy. Carver orders Stamper to go ahead with the missile launch. With the boat disintegrating around them, Bond fights through several of Carver's henchmen and corners the villain. Bond activates the sea drill hanging nearby and forces Carver into its path killing him. Stamper has chained Lin and dangles her over the indoor pool; when she passes Bond some detonation fuses to sabotage the missile, Stamper drops her in the water. Bond and Stamper fight briefly and Bond traps the thug's ankle under the missile. With Stamper holding him in front of the missile's engines, he hopes that Bond will burn and die with him. Bond is able to cut the straps on his pack and he plunges into the water just as the missile launches and the detonators destroy it and Stamper. Under water, he rescues Lin, breathing air into her lungs with a kiss. The two surface just as the stealth boat sinks. They are later picked up by the British Navy while sharing a romantic moment in a lifeboat.by tyler53841


*http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120347/synopsis
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Sheryl Crow :: Tomorrow Never Dies

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[postlink]https://yoursoundtrackfilm.blogspot.com/2011/09/matt-monro-from-russia-with-love.html[/postlink]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gEVfM1XNDWQendofvid
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From Russia With Love

From russia with love I fly to you

Much wiser since my goodbye to you

I've travelled the world to learn

I must return from russia with love

I've seen places, faces and smiled for a moment
But oh, you haunted me so
Still my tongue tied, young pride
Would not let my love for you show
In case you say no

To russia I flew but there and then
I suddenly knew you'd care again
My running around is through
I fly to you, from russia with love


Storyline, From Rusia With Love (1963):


The film opens at an unnamed estate; British MI6 agent James Bond is making his way through the grounds. He is followed by a white-haired man dressed in black. The white-haired man emerges from behind a hedge, pulling a garrote wire from his watch, which he slips around Bond's neck; Bond is dead in a few moments. Large spotlights suddenly turn on and the corpse lying at the assassin's feet is revealed to be a man wearing a mask of 007's face. The assassin's supervisors emerge, documenting the mission time and revealing that the mission is a training exercise for SMERSH.

At a chess match, SPECTRE operative Number 2, Kronsteen, wins the match and is called away to meet with his boss, Number One (who's face is never seen), the mysterious leader of SPECTRE, and another operative (Number 3), Rosa Klebb, a KGB double-agent. They plan to trick James Bond into stealing a Lektor decoding machine from the Soviet embassy in Istanbul, which they will then steal from Bond, while at the same time, framing him. To lure Bond into the trap, Klebb will enlist an attractive female attache, Tatiana Romanov, whose cover story will be that she intends to defect to England.

Bond meets with MI6 head, M; the two immediately suspect the trap but M orders Bond to Istanbul anyway, telling him to meet with MI6 associate, Kerim Bey. Bond's armorer, Q, provides Bond with a briefcase containing several devices, including a knife, a collapsible sniper's rifle and a tear-gas bomb that will explode if the case is not opened correctly.

At the SMERSH training facility seen in the opening scene, Klebb meets with Morzeny who takes her to a man named Grant, the same assassin that killed the impostor Bond. Klebb looks Grant over and punches him in the abdomen with brass knuckles. Seeing that Grant doesn't flinch from the blow, she orders him to be sent to Istanbul.

Bond arrives in Istanbul and is driven to Kerim Bey's offices; he is followed by the KGB but the driver, Bey's son, assures Bond that there is no danger; Bey's & the KGB's operatives tail each other constantly in Istanbul. Bond meets Bey, who informs him that the Soviet embassy, though heavily protected, can be infiltrated and the Lektor can be stolen. Bond checks into his hotel, asking to be given another room when he finds a listening device behind a painting. He is given the bridal suite. Meanwhile, Bey, relaxing with his mistress at his offices, is nearly killed when a bomb goes off: his girlfriend had lured him away from the blast zone only moments before. Bond goes to Bey's office where he's briefed on the incident. Bey takes Bond to the flooded catacombs below his offices and, in a rowboat, the two travel underneath the city to the Soviet embassy. Bey has installed a submarine periscope under the embassy's conference room and lets Bond see who is meeting there. Bey spots a Bulgarian KGB assassin, Krilencu, whom he suspects planted the bomb that nearly killed him. Bey desires retaliation but chooses not to, stating that Krilencu has been out of Istanbul for a year and there is no need to start any conflict that can jeopardize Bond's mission.

Bey takes Bond to a gypsy camp outside the city for the evening. After watching a bellydancer perform, the chief of the camp brings out two female rivals who vie for the hand of one of his sons. The two women begin a vicious fight when the camp is attacked by the Krilencu and his Bulgarian KGB men. In the ensuing gunfight, Bey is injured and Bond saved by Grant, who, from a hidden position observing the camp, shoots a man intending to attack Bond with a sword. For his bravery and assistance, the gypsy chief makes Bond one of his "sons." Bond accepts but only if the man stops the fight between the women. The man laughs, suggesting that Bond is too softhearted.

Bey resolves to kill Krilencu. He and Bond go to Krilencu's hideout where Bey has the Turkish police knock on the agent's door. Krilencu uses an escape hatch which leads him down the side of the building, making him an easy target for Bey who uses Bond's sniper rifle to shoot him. The man falls to the ground dead.

Bond returns to his hotel room and is just about to take a relaxing bath when he sees a naked woman getting into his bed; it is Tatiana. The two spend the night together, not knowing they are being filmed behind a one way mirror by Klebb. The next day, Bond meets with Tatiana at a cathedral intending to receive a map of the Russian Consulate from her. Tatiana leaves the map behind but both are stalked by an KGB agent who is killed by Grant. Bond finds the map and the dead agent. Bond takes the map to Bey who determines that a bomb set off in the consulate would be enough of a distraction for Bond to enter the communications room, steal the Lektor and escape with Tatiana into the catacombs below the city.

Bond later meets with Tatiana on a ferry where he records Tatiana's description of the Lektor. The recording is studied by M, Miss Moneypenny and a few other officials who determine that the device Tatiana speaks of is authentic. They tell M to order Bond to go ahead with the theft.

Bond reports to the Soviet embassy at precisely 3:00 PM. Moments later, the bomb goes off, having been placed near the wall to the communications room. The explosion breaks a hole in the wall of the room and Bond slips in easily to grab the Lektor and Tatiana and they escape into the catacombs. They are led outside by Bey.

Bond's escape from Istanbul involves a lengthy ride on the Orient Express to Trieste in Italy. Bey has reserved a sleeper car for both Bond and Tatiana, who are posing as a married couple. They are to meet another of Bey's sons, who will give them documents and assistance in smuggling the Lektor across the Italian border. Bey and Bond subdue and bind a KGB agent who had been tailing them. Bey and the KGB man later turn up dead in Bey's room, both are the victims of Grant, who is also on the train. At the next stop, Bond meets with one of Bey's sons and asks him to arrange for an MI6 contact to meet him at the next stop, Sarajevo. At the station, Grant slips off the train and finds the MI6 agent and kills him, taking his place. He meets Bond and invites him to dinner on the train; Bond is a few minutes behind. Toward the end of the meal, Grant drops a sleeping pill into Tatiana's drink. She becomes drowsy and falls asleep in their room. Grant reveals that he has been sent to kill both Bond and Romanov and steal the Lektor. He also tells Bond he plans to frame him for Tatiana's murder and cause a scandal involving Bond's tryst with her, which was filmed by Klebb. Bond comes to the realization that Grant is not with SMERSH but is working for SPECTRE. Grant tells Bond that he intends to torture him before killing him. Bond asks for a cigarette, agreeing to pay for it with some of the gold sovereigns he has in his briefcase. Grant reaches for the briefcase he'd taken from the agent he killed in Sarajevo, which explodes in a white cloud of gas when he opens it; Bond had switched the contents of his own case for Grant's prior to dinner. Grant is temporarily stunned by the tear gas and Bond attacks him. The two fight viciously, with Bond eventually strangling Grant with the garrote wire in his watch.The train is forced to stop at a road crossing a few minutes later, part of Grant's exit route. Bond revives Tatiana and they jump off the train.

At Number One's office, Klebb is admonished for the failure of her plan. Morzeny enters the room and releases a dagger in the toe of his boot. Although Klebb expects to be killed for her failure, Morzeny stabs Kronsteen in the leg with the knife, which has been tipped with a powerful poison. Kronsteen falls dead and Number One remarks that the poison didn't work quickly enough. Klebb is given a second chance at Bond in Italy.

At Grant's stop, Bond and Tatiana see a flower truck. The man is an operative working for Grant; Bond subdues the man and takes his truck. As they drive toward Grant's next stop, they are attacked by a Russian helicopter. Bond is able to shoot the chopper down. He then coerces Grant's man into telling him that Grant will escape by boat and they drive there. They steal Grant's boat and head for Trieste, throwing the man overboard. A few hours later they're intercepted by Morzeny and several men in additional boats. Bond dumps the large barrels of fuel, which have been shot and are leaking, into the water. Morzeny's boats, having stopped, are set aflame when Bond ignites the floating fuel with a flare pistol. Morzeny and his men, crashing each other's boats together, are burned alive in the conflagration.

Bond and Tatiana reach Venice and are preparing to leave for England when Klebb enters their hotel room, disguised as a maid. She grabs the Lektor and holds Bond at gunpoint, ordering Romanov out of the room. Klebb raises the pistol to kill Bond but is hit by Tatiana. Bond attacks Klebb, pinning her against the wall with a chair, rendering the dagger in the toe of her shoe useless. Tatiana recovers Klebb's pistol and, after a brief hesitation, shoots Klebb, killing her.

Bond and Tatiana take a romantic pleasure cruise on Venice's Grand Canal and Bond studies the film of his and Tatiana's night together. He kisses Tatiana passionately and throws the film in the river. by myturn21

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Matt Monro :: From Russia With Love

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[postlink]https://yoursoundtrackfilm.blogspot.com/2011/09/chris-cornell-you-know-my-name.html[/postlink]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nxAm8Y1w6BIendofvid
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You Know My Name

Written and Produced by:  Chris Cornell and David Arnold
Performed by:  Chris Cornell

Tuning: EADGBE

Chords: A Bm D E F# G Gm Abm    

Intro: Bm G E x4
Bm                                         Gm
If you take a life do you know what you'll give?
                    D            
Odds are, you won't like what it is.
Bm                                             Gm 
When the storm arrives, would you be seen with me?
                 D       F#m  
By the merciless eyes of deceit? 

G         F#m              Bm  A    Abm
I've seen angels fall from blinding heights
G           F#m              Bm A Abm  G  
But you yourself are nothing so divine 
             F#m
Just next in line.

Chorus
Bm                   G                     E
Arm yourself because no-one else here will save you
              Bm         G 
The odds will betray you 
           E
And I will replace you 
    Bm             G                     E
You can't deny the prize it may never fulfill you 
            Bm       G
It longs to kill you 
                   E
Are you willing to die? 

E
The coldest blood runs through my veins 
Bm G E
You know my name 

Bm                                        Gm
If you come inside things will not be the same 
         D             
When you return to the night 
Bm
And if you think you've won 
                 Gm
You never saw me change 
              D           F#m
The game that we all been playing 

G        F#m                   Bm A   Abm  G
I've seen diamonds cut through harder men 
             F#m
Than you yourself
           Bm   A  Abm G 
But if you must pretend 
                  F#m
You may meet your end 

Chorus
Bm                   G                     E
Arm yourself because no-one else here will save you
              Bm         G 
The odds will betray you 
           E
And I will replace you 
    Bm             G                     E
You can't deny the prize it may never fulfill you 
            Bm       G
It longs to kill you 
                   E
Are you willing to die? 

E
The coldest blood runs through my veins 

G
Try to hide your hand 
E
Forget how to feel (Forget how to feel)
G                        E
Life is gone with just a spin of the wheel (Spin of the wheel) 

Bm                   G                     E
Arm yourself because no-one else here will save you
              Bm         G 
The odds will betray you 
           E
And I will replace you 
    Bm             G                     E
You can't deny the prize it may never fulfill you 
            Bm       G
It longs to kill you 
                   E
Are you willing to die? 
E
The coldest blood runs through my veins 

You know my name 
You know my name 
 
Casino Royal (2006)
Genre:   Action, Adventure, Crime -- 144 min
Release Date:   15 November 2006 (Indonesia)
Filming Location:   "The Canals", Venice, Veneto, Italy 


Storyline
The movie begins in the city of Prague, Czech Republic, where James Bond has tracked down an MI6 section chief, Dryden, who was selling information to enemies for profit. They chat about what it takes to be a Double O agent (one of the requirements is making two kills) and Bond casually tells Dryden that his espionage contact, Fisher died, and "Not well." Intercut with the conversation are black and white scenes of Bond and Dryden's contact fighting in a men's room. Bond finally pushes the man's face into an overflowing sink and holds him there until he falls to the floor, apparently dead.

Dryden points a gun at Bond. "Shame. We hardly got to know each other." He pulls the trigger, but James has taken removed the ammunition from the weapon. "I know where you keep your gun. I suppose that's something." Despite this, Dryden taunts Bond, asking him if he felt any remorse or guilt over killing Fisher. Dryden says that Bond "needn't worry, the second is--" at which point Bond kills Dryden. Bond puts his pistol away saying, "Yes, considerably." (Though not said explicitly, Bond found the killing of Dryden, his second such kill, "considerably" easier than the first.) In flashback, Fisher recovers from Bond's attempt to drown him and picks up his pistol. The frame instantly shifts to the series' iconic "gun barrel" sequence. Bond spins around and shoots the man. Blood runs down the frame, prompting the opening titles.

The scene shifts to Uganda where a terrorist group is meeting with "Le Chiffre", a private banker to terrorist groups around the world. The broker for the deal is a Mr. White, who invests their money and manipulates stocks so they get a 100% return on the investment. The terrorists, lead by a man named Obanno, agree to allow the money to be taken for Le Chiffre's nefarious purposes.

In Madagascar, Bond, on his first mission as a "00", is working with another agent, Carter, monitoring a terrorist, Mollaka, who is gambling on a match between a cobra and a mongoose... Bond's inexperienced partner agent is exposed after Mollaka gets a cell call and the terrorist bolts from the scene. Bond chases the man, who is an experienced "free runner" (parkour) who leads Bond through a construction site, onto several sky cranes and finally to the Nambutu embassy where he seeks asylum. Bond charges into the embassy, in direct contravention of international law and his orders, and catches Mollaka. Bond fights his way thru the halls of the embassy and finally finds himself surrounded by armed guards. The ambassador appears and orders Bond to let Mollaka go. Bond shoots the terrorist and a nearby gas tank and escapes in the explosion. He also steals the backpack Mollaka was carrying. Searching through the backpack, he finds a cell phone and a bomb. Bond examines the man's messages briefly, seeing one with an American phone number and the word "ellipsis." Bond keeps the phone.

Back at MI6, M is furious that 007's violent actions were caught on tape at the Nambutu embassy. Bond later sneaks into M's home and hacks her top-level clearance so he can trace where the cell phone call originated from. When M enters she's startled and lectures him on proper protocol and conduct. She thought it was a mistake to give him 00 status. Bond assures her that "the life expectancy of a 00 is brief, so your mistake will be short-lived." M tells him that "arrogance and self-awareness seldom go hand-in-hand" and she wanted him to take his ego out of the equation when on a mission. She also tells him to go on a brief vacation until she can decide how best to deal with him. Bond had discovered that the call to Mollaka originated in the Bahamas and so Bond goes there to investigate who made the call and why. He ends up finding a middle man, Dmitrios, who was working for Le Chiffre and that he was hired to find someone who could carry out a task for Le Chiffre. Bond meets Dmitrios and plays poker with him, winning his 1964 Aston Martin. Bond uses the Aston to finagle a romantic evening with Dmitrios' spurned wife, Solange, to get information about her husband. She tells Bond that Dmitrios is going to Miami. Bond follows him there where he confronts Dmitrios, after seeing him put a bag away for someone to pick up later. Bond kills Dmitrios when he's held at knifepoint, however, the bag goes missing and Bond follows the man, Carlos, hired for Mollaka's job. Bond follows Carlos to Miami International Airport, where he pulls a security uniform out of the bag and puts it on. He slips into the secured area of the airport and Bond follows him, having figured out "ellipsis" was the security code to get through the door. M calls Bond to tell him Le Chiffre will have Carlos destroy the prototype for a large airline named Skyfleet. The prototype is the largest aircraft in the world and destroying it will bankrupt Skyfleet. Carlos sets off the emergency sprinkler system in the building to cause a diversion and slips out onto the tarmac. Carlos attaches an explosive charge to a refueling tanker and starts driving it towards the plane. However, Bond manages to leap onto the tanker. The two have a vicious fight all the way around the runways while being chased by the Miami-Dade Police. Eventually, Carlos leaps off the truck, and Bond is barely able to stop the tanker from hitting the plane. Carlos smiles as Bond is arrested and sets off the charge. Except Bond attached the charge to Carlos' belt during the melee, and Carlos ends up dead.

Returning to Nassau, Bond discovers a crime scene, the victim being Solange. M explains she was torturned and killed by Le Chiffre because she was the only one left alive and he assumed she talked. Le Chiffre's plan was to short sell millions of dollars in Skyfleet stock and destroying their prototype, causing their stock to plummet and send them into bankruptcy. Thanks to Bond, Le Chiffre loses over $101 million dollars. Now a marked man, Le Chiffre must find another way to earn the money back so his investors will not kill him. He sets up a high stakes poker match in Montenegro for 10 players with entry fees at $10 million each + a $5 million buy back should they lose all their money. M informs Bond of the poker game and agrees to let Bond continue the mission since he's the best poker player in the service. M also implants a homing device on 007 so she can track him anywhere.

The British Government will be putting up the money and we are introduced to Vesper Lynd who is the government agent who is going to monitor Bond and give a go, no-go should he lose the money. They talk on the train about each other, Vesper commenting on his cold nature and Bond remarking on how Vesper is retentive. Upon arriving they are to pose as a married couple and meet Rene Mathis, their contact in Montenegro. Each poker player has their money in a Swiss bank in escrow while they play and each one has a password to keep the money secured. Vesper has the account number but only 007 knows the password. On the first hand, 007 loses a chunk of cash to figure out how Le Chiffre bluffs (his physical "tell" involves him placing his left hand near his wounded eye), however Vesper is not at all amused. After a lengthy round of hands, a break is called. Bond places a tracking device in Le Chiffre's asthma inhaler and takes Vesper back to their room. Le Chiffre is called back to his room by his girlfriend, Valenka. However, he was confronted by Obanno and his henchman, demanding his money back. They threaten to cut off Valenka's arm. However, Le Chiffre doesn't acquiesce. Out in the hallway, Bond hears Valenka screaming. He quickly grabs Vesper and they kiss in the stairway entrance to cover themselves. However Obanno's henchman notices Bond's earpiece and attacks them both. The fight takes them into the stairwell, where the henchman gets thrown off the stairwell to his death, and James and Obanno have a knock-down drag-out fight all the way down the stairwell. Finding landing on the bottom, Bond gets Obanno into a chokehold. Obanno tries to reach for Bond's gun, but Vesper smashes it out of his hands. Bond kills Obanno and orders Vesper to contact Mathis, who sets up a man to take the fall for the dead bodies by placing them in the man's car trunk. Bond finishes the poker session, but he returns to the room to find Vesper shaking uncontrollably in the shower from the fight. He holds on to her and comforts her.

The next day, during the continuing poker game, Bond loses all his money to Le Chiffre after misreading a bluff and admits to Vesper that he made a mistake. Vesper won't give him the buy back money saying he's going to lose it. Furious, 007 goes after Le Chiffre but is stopped by one of the other poker players, Felix Leiter, sent by the CIA to the poker match to catch Le Chiffre. Leiter tells 007 that he's doing poorly himself in the game and that he'll back Bond to re-enter the game; Leiter believes that Bond can beat Le Chiffre. In return, Bond will give Le Chiffre to the CIA. Bond slowly builds his bank again and once again becomes a threat to Le Chiffre. Le Chiffre has Valenka poison Bond's martini with digitalis, causing Bond to suffer severe tachycardia. Bond goes to his car distressed and, communicating with medical specialists at MI6 headquarters, is about to use the defibrillator when he sees the the connection isn't plugged in and passes out. Vesper arrives, fixes the defibrillator kit and shocks him back to life. Bond, shaken, returns to the game. The final hand of the game is down to four players, including Bond and Le Chiffre, who go "all in", betting their remaining money, driving the "pot" well over $120 million. One man has a flush, while another has a full house. Le Chiffre has a higher full house and is about to take the entire pot. Bond reveals he has a straight flush and wins the game.

Bond has dinner with Vesper, who receives a call from Mathis stating that Le Chiffre has been apprehended by the CIA. Vesper leaves the dining room; seconds later, Bond realizes she's in danger. Vesper is kidnapped by Le Chiffre. Bond races after them in his Aston Martin, but has to swerve violently when he sees Vesper lying bound in the road. The car rolls several times, destroying it and injuring Bond, rendering him unconscious. Le Chiffre and his cronies take him, remove his homing implant and take him and Vesper to a nearby tramp steamer. Bond is stripped and bound to a chair with the seat removed, leaving his testicles exposed. Le Chiffre uses a large knotted rope, striking Bond's scrotum, demanding the password for the account the winnings have been secured in. Bond refuses, despite Le Chiffre's threats to kill him and Vesper. Le Chiffre finally draws a knife and is about to castrate Bond when gunshots are heard outside. The door opens and Mr. White, the broker from the first scene with Obanno, walks in. Le Chiffre pleads with him, saying he'll secure the money, to which White replies, "Money isn't as important to our organization as knowing who to trust." White shoots Le Chiffre in the forehead, killing him.

Bond wakes up in a hospital bed during a haze while he recovers. He talks to Mathis, whom he believes was responsible for his and Vesper's capture by Le Chiffre. MI6 agents appear, taze Mathis and drag him away.

Vesper visits Bond and they confess their love for each other. The Swiss banker in charge of the winnings account visits and Bond gives Vesper the password to key in; the password is her own first name. Bond resigns from the service to go away with Vesper, and they sail to Venice, Italy where Vesper says she'll get the money and Bond will get the supplies for the trip. When M phones 007 about his resignation, she says that they need to talk about the money being returned to the British government first, which tips off 007 that Vesper was using him all along. 007 follows Vesper to a secret meeting where she turns the money over, in cash, to a man named Gettler. Gettler and a few of his men retreat to a building being renovated and a gunfight ensues. Bond shoots and ruptures the flotation bags that hold the building above water-level and fights with them all, killing them. He tries to save Vesper, locked in an old elevator, but is unable to after she commits suicide by drowning herself. Bond recovers her body and takes her above water but is unable to revive her. Mr. White, who'd been watching the scene, is seen leaving with the suitcase full of money.

Sitting on the sailboat he and Vesper had been vacationing on, Bond talks to M, who informs him that Vesper had a boyfriend who was being held by Le Chiffre's organization. She had intended to pay off Le Chiffre's associates with the money to secure her boyfriend's release. M believes that there are no further leads, that the "trail has gone cold." Bond examines Vesper's cell phone and finds the phone number of Mr. White, which he theorized she left for him on purpose. At Lake Como in Northern Italy, White arrives at a palatial estate. After he exits his car, he receives a phone call from someone telling him they "need to talk." Asking who the caller is, White is suddenly shot in the leg by a sniper. He falls to the ground and crawls toward the house. As he tries to climb the stairs and the familiar Bond theme begins to play, Bond appears carrying a cell phone and an HK rifle. As White looks up defiantly, Bond says "The name's Bond. James Bond." The closing titles roll immediately. by briant-6

Review
"Millenium" series James Bond - top-of-the-line!
In the original Bond series, only a handful of films really attempted to touch base with the novels of Ian Fleming. "Dr. No" showed the Fleming feeling for character and action, but introduced elements to the plot that detracted from the 'hard-boiled' spy story that Fleming thought he was writing; "Thunderball" came close, but that was because Fleming developed the story on commission for the film. "On Her Majesty's Secret Service" had the book's plot pretty down pat, and was made in a kind of 'grand adventure' style, but of course it suffered from the choice of Lazenby - a professional model, not an actor - as Bond. "The Living Daylights" showed the producers' interest in returning to the roots, but Dalton was uncomfortable playing Bond, and uncomfortable with the wisecracks which had become part of the character's schtick - and which were really badly written for the Dalton films. "Goldeneye" was admirable attempt to update the Fleming milieu for the end of the Cold War, but left the character himself as yet without an 'updated' definition.

The decision to make a 21st Century version of Fleming's first Bond novel - and, beyond the update, to remain true to the novel, sans comic patter, sans sci-fi techno-schtick, sans major rewrite of the basic plot - promised to present Bond fans of all ages with a direct challenge. Do we want the hard-boiled spy Fleming first envisioned - patterned after Chandler's Philip Marlowe and W. Somerset Maughm's Ashenden ("or: The British Agent")? Or would we really rather have the suave stand-up comedian and Playboy magazine contributor introduced by Broccoli, Maibaum, Young, and company, in the second Connery film, "From Russia With Love"?

Well, the votes are still being tallied on that.

As someone who came to Bond reading "Goldfinger" at the tender age of twelve (the phrase "round, firm, pointed breasts" has been an inspiration to me since), the closer the films came to the sense of the novels, the happier I was.

So of course, this version of Bond is a joyous surprise for me - my youthful daydreams have been vindicated and at last fully satisfied. There are indeed elements added to the plot, but they are completely congruent with it. There is the use of current technology, but no techno-schtick - i.e., no Q. and no "gadgets". There are the luscious Bond babes (2 - the minimum Bond requirement), but there is no attempt to reduce them to photogenic sex-toys.

Fleming's plot actually requires the film's addition of some heavy action sequences (all done very snappy, with a brutally realistic edge), because the novel is very claustrophobic; the original TV version of the story (1955, with Barry Nelson as 'Jimmy Bond'), only used three indoor sets, because it could - except for the car chase and an attempted bombing at an outdoor café, Fleming's novel took place almost entirely within Bond's hotel suite and the gaming room. The film's opening this novel out to the world is actually quite welcome, and does not affect the central plot or its theme.

The character of Bond presented in this film may disappoint followers of the original films, but the news is, this is FLEMING's Bond - an orphan uncertain of his own identity, a disillusioned romantic trying hard to pretend he's incapable of emotions, a middle class, middle-brow, middle-level management type who just happens to kill people for a living. But he does it extremely well.

The other problem some general viewers may have is the level of violence in the film; having determined to film the novel realistically, director Martin Campbell has decided to ditch the 'B-movie' violence of most of the earlier films, and present us the violence with a hard 'British neo-noir' edge to it. Given the romantic plot twist toward the end, this would be a perfect date movie - except that the violence left some of the female viewers in the theater I attended clearly unsettled. That's not necessarily a bad thing, it just is part of the gestalt of the film's experience.

Cambell's direction is very good; the writing is crisp; production values are very high; the photography is stunning. Some of the stunt work is truly remarkable, worthy competition for Jackie Chan. The acting is rock-solid and believable for these characters. There is plenty of muscle for the action-film fan, and some real brains for the more general viewer to ponder later. 

This film is best viewed with minimal reliance on knowledge of the previous series. In fact, it functions perfectly well as a 'one-off', a film without a series.

But of course, the ending invites a sequel. In Godzilla terms, Connery and Moore having given us the 'showa' Bond, Dalton and Brosnan the "Heisei" Bond, we now have the "Millenium" series James Bond - not a prequel nor even a 'reboot', but, really, an entirely new series about the same character. It is probably too much to hope for, but maybe they can make the sequels just as good as this.

As a genre film it never quite lifts above its genre; so normally I would only give it "nine stars" as a film.

However, as a film within its genre, it is top-of-the-line - so it gets a ten. by winner55, USA

Martin Campbell 
(Director, Producer, Actor)
Born:  October 24, 1943 in Hastings, New Zealand
Height:  5' 10" (1.78 m) 

“I like pre-production and post the best. I don't like shooting at all. I find it grueling and tough, but I love post and the whole process of seeing the film finally come together. You start ironing out all the rough spots, and the really bad bits you just throw away. So from day one of post to the last day, you see nothing but improvements.” Martin Campbell

Mini Biography
Martin Campbell knows how to entertain an audience when he steps behind the camera. When he directed The Mask Of Zorro, the movie earned Academy Award and Golden Globe nominations and launched the international careers of Antonio Banderas and Catherine Zeta-Jones. Next, when he helmed Vertical Limit, the film was well received by the critics and earned over $200 million in worldwide box office sales. In addition, Campbell is credited with rejuvenating the James Bond franchise when he directed GoldenEye, Pierce Brosnan's first outing as the famed British spy, which went on to gross more than $350 million. He is directing the next Bond feature as well, Casino Royale.

Born in New Zealand, Campbell moved to London where he began his career as a cameraman. He went on to produce the controversial British feature Scum, as well as Black Joy, which was selected for competition at the Cannes Film Festival. Campbell made his directorial debut on the British police action series "The Professionals," and continued with the popular BBC series "Shoestring" and Thames TV's "Minder."

Considered one of the U.K.'s top directors by the mid 1980s, he directed the highly praised British telefilm, "Reilly: Ace Of Spies." For his work on "Edge Of Darkness," a five-hour BBC miniseries about nuclear contamination in England that depicted murder and high-ranking corruption, he won six BAFTA awards.

Campbell's first Hollywood movie was Criminal Law and he went on to direct Defenseless and No Escape. Some of his American credits include directing HBO's "Cast A Deadly Spell" and two episodes of NBC's "Homicide: Life On The Street," among others. He also directed the epic romance Beyond Borders starring Angelina Jolie and Clive Owen.

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