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James Bond

The World Is Not Enough

As the countdown begins for the new millennium there is still one number you can always count on.

19992h 8m6.3

Greed, revenge, world dominance and high-tech terrorism – it's all in a day's work for Bond, who's on a mission to protect a beautiful oil heiress from a notorious terrorist. In a race against time that culminates in a dramatic submarine showdown, Bond works to defuse the international power struggle that has the world's oil supply hanging in the balance.

IMDB
Share:
6.3/10
Rating
3,364
Votes
$135.0M
Budget
$361.8M
Revenue

In the Series

How The World Is Not Enough compares

Every figure below is calculated across the whole of James Bond, not taken from this film’s own record.

#22 of 26
Rank in the series by rating

The World Is Not Enough (1999) ranks 22nd of the 26 rated films in the James Bond series, at 6.3/10 on TMDB against a series average of 6.6/10.

2 years
Wait since the previous film

It arrived 2 years after Tomorrow Never Dies (1997).

3%
Share of the series audience

Its 3,364 TMDB ratings are 3% of the 114,993 cast across the series.

Computed by Movies in Order from The Movie Database (TMDB) collection data for James Bond, comparing all 26 released films in the series. Last recalculated September 2026.

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