Next in the Pierce Brosnan series is "The World Is Not Enough."
On orders from M, Bond retrieves money for British oil tycoon Sir Robert King. Once delivered, the money, laced with explosives, kill King, and Bond chases the assassin, who chooses death over capture. MI6 traces the bomb back to Renard, a former KGB agent the British agency tried to assassinate. The attempt failed and left Renard with a bullet lodged in his skull that made him not feel pain. His next target is Elektra King, Robert's daughter, and M assigns Bond to protect her.
Bond meets Elektra, overseeing an oil pipeline construction, and Renard's men attack the two. He kills Elektra's head of security after learning he was working with Renard. Bond pretends to be a nuclear physicist and infiltrates a Russian base, meeting Dr. Christmas Jones in the process. Jones blows Bond's cover, allowing Renard to escape with a nuclear bomb. Bond and Jones track down the bomb, only to learn that someone has taken half its plutonium. Elektra reveals that she killed her father and kidnaps M.
Jones figures out the villains' plan to use the nuclear bomb to destroy Istanbul and all of the Russian oil pipelines. Doing so would leave Elektra's as the lone-standing pipeline, drastically increasing in value. Elektra captures Bond and Jones, but Bond gets free, saves M, and kills Elektra. He enters the submarine where Renard is holding Jones and kills the former KGB agent, escaping with Jones as the submarine explodes.
The film stars Brosnan, Sophie Marceau as Elektra King, Robert Carlyle as Renard, and Denise Richards as Dr. Christmas Jones. Like its predecessor, "The World Is Not Enough" earned mixed reviews from critics, sitting at 51% on Rotten Tomatoes.
