James Bond has battled evil commies and megalomaniac madmen; perhaps it was only a matter of time until he faced off against a media baron the only sort of figure in today s world that actually does seek global domination. His enemy in Tomorrow Never Dies” wants to start a war in order to create headlines for the launch of his latest news channel. Just imagine what Rupert Murdoch and Ted Turner would like to do to each other and imagine either one of them doing it to the Chinese, and you ll get the idea.
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Bond, played confidently and with a minimum of fuss by Pierce Brosnan, stumbles into the middle of the plot, masterminded by Elliot Carver (Jonathan Pryce), who owns newspapers, TV stations and a gigantic Stealth warship that s invisible to radar. Carver s plan is ingenious: He ll use his satellites to draw a British warship off course, sink it with the Stealth ship, steal its nuclear warheads, and fire one at China, which will think it is under attack from the W