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If this were a Rube Goldberg contraption, this recollection would remind the writer of the grease spot on page 2, caused by his having eaten a Big Mac, the memory of which conjures up such a vivid image that the writer opens his mouth to take a bite, and a string attached to his lower jaw releases a mouse, the sight of which arouses a cat which chases it, causing the mouse to squeal, awakening a midget who stretches, tripping open a trapdoor; through the trapdoor falls a usage book, sliding down a chute into the hands of the writer.
[but] there's some passion in the action, a lilt to the chases, a fluid lyricism in the way the beasts move across hapless humans who cross their paths" (Joe Morgenstern, the Wall Street Journal ). (See David Edelstein's review in Slate and The Lost World site.)
Roger Ebert calls it a "splendid comic thriller" (the Chicago Sun-Times ). The chases are inventive (skis, powerboats), the double-entendres apt (secretary asks Bond if he'd like to "check her figures"), the women beautiful (Denise Richards and Sophie Marceau), and the plot irrelevant (something about oil pipelines).
Cute party girl Angelina Jolie chases skinny pretty-boy Ryan Phillippe, who is peculiarly unresponsive to her blandishments.
Well, actually, yes, about a million things (car chases, ocean liners taking on water) when the words are Virginia Woolf's and the face is Vanessa Redgrave's.