When the suave Agent 007 (Pierce Brosnan) is assigned to protect a beautiful billionaire oil heiress (Sophia Marceau), he is catapulted into a passionate, adrenaline-charged adventure against one of his most deadly adversaries: Renard (Robert Carlyle), a nuclear-obsessed ruthless anarchist whose total imperviousness to pain makes him a virtually unstoppable enemy who is seeking to control the world's oil supply.
In the opinion of Ghost in the Shell anime film director Mamoru Oshii, while the concept of “political correctness” may have been borne from a place of genuinely good intent, its over-emphasis in recent years has had a profoundly detrimental effect on not just entertainment media, but society at large.