Despite the film's faults, David Arnold's score, which layers industrialised sounds over traditional orchestration, can make some sequences seem more exciting than they actually are.

After weeks of media bombardment with Tomorrow Never Dies product tie-in commercials, it's clear that the studio and the film's producers have reinvented movie promotion. Now they need to focus their efforts on reinventing the Bond movies.

In Tomorrow Never Dies, the news is mostly good. And when it comes to movies, there's no news like good news.

Michelle Yeoh is our all-time favorite Bond girl.