12 Things You Learn Rewatching Tomorrow Never Dies

11. Roger Spottiswoode Was A Baffling Choice Of Director

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Roger Spottiswoode might be the strangest ever choice of filmmaker to direct a Bond film, and kick-started a trend of the series deferring to baffling, left-field directors, such as Michael Apted and Lee Tamahori, over more conventional choices more versed in action cinema. Seriously, the fact we never got a John Woo Bond film is absolutely tragic.

Spottiswoode, best known for directing Turner & Hooch, Stop! Or My Mom Will Shoot and writing the 48 Hrs. movies, must've left Bond fans absolutely baffled when he was given the gig in 1996.

To his credit, he does a solid, workmanlike job with the material, though he lacks the seasoned panache of, say, John Glen or Martin Campbell. It's hard to see what Barbara Broccoli and Michael G. Wilson saw in him, but he delivered good enough work against the odds.

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