Factual error: At the beginning of the film, with the boat chase down the River Thames, Bond manages to get from the Vauxhall HQ of MI6 to Docklands in a remarkably short time. To travel the distance in the time that it takes him, you would need to be going at about 700 mph.
The World is Not Enough (1999)
Ending / spoiler
Directed by: Michael Apted
Starring: Pierce Brosnan, John Cleese, Judi Dench, Robert Carlyle, Desmond Llewelyn, Robbie Coltrane, Denise Richards, Colin Salmon, Sophie Marceau, Samantha Bond
Bond gets captured and gets taken to the lighthouse, where he is tortured on a strange chair by Electra. However, Zukovsky comes in with a gun and Electra manages to shoot him. In a final moment, he shoots at Bond's cuff on the chair. Bond gets free and chases Electra, freeing M in the process. He kills Electra at the top of the lighthouse and then jumps off the balcony, where he enters the submarine, thwarts Renard's plan, kills Renard and ends up with Doctor Jones.
More mistakes in The World is Not Enough
James Bond: Construction isn't exactly my speciality.
M: Quite the opposite, in fact.
Trivia: The pre-credits sequence is 14 minutes long, making it the longest in the history of the series. The original intro was simply Bond's escape from the meeting, rappelling down to the ground, but audiences were underwhelmed by that leading straight into the credits. As such the boat chase was included too, leading to the long intro. It was eventually surpassed by No Time to Die in 2021.
Question: What are those blades (the ones used at the end on the caviar factory) used for in real life?
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Chosen answer: We see them in the movie when Bond first arrives to meet Electra - they're used for cutting trees in a straight line. Google "helicopter tree trimmer" to see dozens of examples.
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