TOMORROW NEVER DIES
Intriguing gadgetry and Bond action—for discerning adults.
Should You Watch It?
TOMORROW NEVER DIES delivers what its audience expects from a James Bond adventure: stunning action sequences, advanced gadgetry, a creative premise, and a glamorous love interest. Pierce Brosnan gives Bond an appealing, urbane, somewhat unemotional persona, while Michelle Yeoh’s Wai Lin holds her own in fights and works alongside him to defeat the villains.
The film’s costs are serious. Its violence is extensive, Bond’s philandering is both implied and depicted, and the content includes adultery, nudity, profanity, and alcohol use. The story also places a crusading British agent inside an internationalist world with anti-Capitalist elements.
If you are an adult who can exercise discernment about those concerns, this is a worthwhile theatrical action adventure. For children and young teens, choose something else.
The Story
NO SPOILERS — WE KEEP THE SURPRISESBritish Secret Service Agent 007 must stop international media mogul Elliot Carver from fomenting war between Britain and China for profit. Carver’s worldwide news network helps create the international incident it reports, while his global satellite network serves an even larger ambition. Bond joins forces with Chinese agent Wai Lin as they work to defeat Carver’s conspiracy.
Is It Any Good?
Three stars means this is an entertaining, effective formula adventure, though it does not surpass the dramatic impact of its predecessor. The film features stunning action sequences, lots of violence, intriguing gadgetry, and a creative premise.
Pierce Brosnan brings a suave, sophisticated manner and an appealing, urbane presence to Bond, though the character is somewhat unemotional. Michelle Yeoh’s Wai Lin is more than adornment: she holds her own in fights and teams up with Bond. The result fulfills audience expectations without making a major breakthrough for the long-running series.
The Worldview
The film presents an internationalist worldview centered on a crusading British Secret Service agent fighting an international media mogul-terrorist. Its central conflict warns about a powerful media company inciting an international incident and using global technology in pursuit of world domination. The story also contains anti-Capitalist elements.
Bond is presented as suave, sophisticated, and effective, but his philandering is part of the formula rather than a moral example. The film depicts adultery, while Wai Lin is portrayed as a capable martial arts expert who holds her own in combat instead of serving only as adornment. The movie’s use of violence, deception, and sexual immorality departs from a biblical view of righteousness, even as its opposition to domination and the deliberate fomenting of war recognizes the evil of manipulation and greed.
Scripture warns against prideful power: “Pride goes before destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall” (Proverbs 16:18).
The Content Guide
The specifics — spoilers included by nature — so you can judge for your own family.
Content Summary
Pagan, Internationalist worldview of a crusading British Secret Service agent fighting an international media mogul terrorist with anti-Capitalist elements; 3 profanities & no obscenities; extensive
Violence
missile blows up men, men shoot men, torpedo sinks ship, man blows up ship, & man threatens man with knife; depicted adultery with upper male nudity & implied female nudity; and, alcohol use.
Talk About It
Questions for the drive home, the dinner table, or the youth group.
The film centers on a media mogul who helps create the crisis his company reports. Why is it wrong to manipulate people and profit from fear?
Proverbs 12:22 · Ephesians 4:25Bond’s philandering is treated as part of the adventure formula. What does Scripture teach about faithfulness and sexual purity?
Exodus 20:14 · Hebrews 13:4Carver seeks power through deception and global domination. What kinds of ambition become destructive, and how should Christians pursue influence?
Mark 10:42–45 · Philippians 2:3–4Wai Lin is presented as a capable partner rather than mere adornment. How can stories honor courage and ability without making violence or self-reliance the highest virtues?
Micah 6:8 · 1 Corinthians 16:13–14The Final Word
TOMORROW NEVER DIES offers adults stylish action, intriguing gadgetry, and a creative premise, but it also brings extensive violence, sexual immorality, profanity, and alcohol use. Discerning adults may find it worth seeing; children and young teens should choose something else. WORTH THE TRIP — ADULTS ONLY. For family-friendly alternatives, see.
