12 Things You Learn Rewatching Tomorrow Never Dies

8. Paris Carver Is Totally Unnecessary

Tomorrow Never Dies Teri Hatcher
MGM

Teri Hatcher may serve as easy eye candy in this movie, but Paris Carver is an utterly irrelevant and unnecessary Bond girl for a number of reasons.

Firstly, Bond banging the villain's woman in order to undermine his sexual potency is an old-hat Bond movie cliche, and though the film tries to add more meaning to their tryst by giving Bond and Paris a prior history, it feels lazily shoehorned in with zero effort.

Paris ends up killed at Carver's hand, of course, but it has no emotional impact whatsoever because she feels like such a stock, needless character.

Hatcher's performance is fine enough, but every second she's on screen, she's basically taking time away from Michelle Yeoh's effortlessly superior Wai Lin.

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