Vashirdfel Simply A Masterpiece

JinRoz For all the hype it got I was expecting a lot more!

Pacionsbo Absolutely Fantastic

Brendon Jones It’s fine. It's literally the definition of a fine movie. You’ve seen it before, you know every beat and outcome before the characters even do. Only question is how much escapism you’re looking for.

SimonJack One can understand why this might be his least favorite James Bond film that Pierce Brosnan made. "Die Another Day" resembles more the hodgepodge of modern action films than it does the secret agent thrillers created by Ian Fleming. The hodgepodge being nearly constant action films devoid of any acting. While this entry in the 007 series has considerable plot, with complicated subplots, the nearly nonstop action has so few pauses that the film seems to be three or four stories pieced together. Besides the action scenes, this film has more of just about everything. That includes the gadgets and gimmicks. The dialog is rife with sexual innuendo. And, it's also the most graphic Bond film with vivid sex scenes. The filmmakers just put too much in this film that weighed it down. This is a classic example that more often is not better. This is also the first film in which a female character has a huge part of the action. Halle Berry's Jinx Johnson seems to have as much action time as does Brosnan's Bond. When the mole in MI6 is finally uncovered, it proves Bond right. Let's see if M doesn't follow his hunches and advice in the future. Most of the Bond films have as antagonists a global conspiracy or terrorist group. This is one of the few that also involves a foreign government hostile to the free Western world. Here, it's North Korea, where Bond is being tortured after being captured in the opening credits sequence. A couple of interesting notes about this film. A real Bond is in it - Samantha Bond is Moneypenny, and has played that part in all the Bond films that star Pierce Brosnan, beginning with Goldeneye in 1995. As with Brosnan, this was her last Bond film. And, John Cleese finally gets promoted to the post of Q. His banter with Bond in this film is the best of the exchanges between the two characters in more than 20 films.Unfortunately, the few good aspects of this film can't elevate it above a ho-hum action movie. The six stars are mostly for the tremendous sets, camerawork and varied shooting locations.

bensonmum2 When I first saw A View to a Kill back in 1985, I thought the Bond series had hit rock-bottom. I didn't think it possible to make a Bond movie I would like less. However, in 2002, I witnessed the hot mess that is Die Another Day and realized that, yes, you could make a Bond movie that would make A View to a Kill look like a masterpiece in comparison. This movie is so bad and makes me so mad that I actually prefer listening to Tanya Roberts yell "James' from the back of that firetruck than watch this junk. The plot - what's the point - it's as stupid as the rest of the film. I could literally write multiple pages detailing all of the issues I have with this blight on the Bond series. Instead, I'll do the now familiar laundry list:1. Let's start with a big one - DNA replacement. The whole notion that a Korean dude could turn into a white Englishman in just a couple of years by using something preposterous sounding like DNA replacement is ridiculous. I can't believe anyone actually wrote this and thought viewers would just buy into it.2. Madonna's title song - There have been a lot of great songs to appear in the Bond opening credits - Shirley Bassey in Goldfinger, Sheena Easton's song in For Your Eyes Only, Paul McCartney's Live and Let Die theme, and Garbage's The World is Not Enough (a real favorite of mine). Madonna's song, in comparison, is BAD. It's a trendy, auto-tuned pile of dung. It will never appear on this list.3. The Invisible Car - Plain old stupid. And the way Bond uses it (or doesn't use it) and the way it's discovered - again, plain old stupid.4. Jinx - Fron the moment Halle Barry does that over-the-top swivel-hip walk out of the water, I knew instantly she would be a horrible Bond girl. Her character reached a real low with the "Yo Mamma" joke. 5. The villains - These guys are more cartoon characters than super-villain. They're impossible to take seriously. 6. Pierce Brosnan: the Quipping Machine - Some of Bosnan's quips would make even Roger Moore groan in pain and disbelief. A lot of the sexual innuendo would be more at home on Three's Company than in a Bond movie. It's too silly for words.Seroiusly, this could go on and one. I haven't mentioned surfing Bond, the crappy CGI effects, Madonna's acting, the ice hotel, John Cleese, Bond's unbelievable escape from the death ray, a bloated run-time, etc. And if I could be bothered, I could probably come up with another bunch of things that bother me about Die Anotern Day. Combine it all together and you end up with what I consider the poorest entry in the Bond franchise. As I alluded to before, I don't just hate this movie, it makes me mad watching it. Die Another Day came as close as anything to destroying the Bond franchise. Despite my dislike for Die Another Day, I've still rated the film a 3/10. I do so because in the end, it's still James Bond and there are a set-piece or two throughout the film that work for me.

Davis P This might not be the most realistic Bond movie ever but it sure is fun. The action sequences are wildly over the top and very stylized, but you know what.... who cares?? This is exactly what it's supposed to be, a fun well acted, action packed Bond film. Pierce brosnan is a very good choice to play James Bond and I like his performance here. The movie also features other great actors that turn in great performances. Halle Berry is one of those great actors, and I loved her performance here as Jinx, very bondish, which is how it must be. Judi Dench is of course great as M, as always. The movie has special effects that are for the most part alright, at times they are a little hokey. They switch from being just okay to sort of fake looking. The writing is enough to keep the audience interested enough and it's enough to suffice for a typical James Bond movie, but it never exceeds that standard, which is alright in my opinion. To be honest a 007 movie isn't supposed to have spectacular out of this world writing, that's not really the point of these films, sure it's wonderful to have a very well written script, but for those kind of movies case, it's excusable to not have one. A pretty fun James Bond movie overall. 7/10.

Filipe Neto Directed by Lee Tamahori and produced by Barbara Broccoli and Michael G. Wilson, has script Robert Wade and is the twentieth film in the franchise. In this film, Pierce Brosnan plays 007 for the last time, next to Halle Berry, in the role of Jinkx, Rosamund Pike, in the role of Miranda Frost, Rick Yune, in the role of Zao, John Cleese, in the role of Q and Toby Stephens, in the role of Gustav Graves.In this film, James Bond returns to active after being captured and tortured in North Korea, where he remained abandoned by the country he served. He will try to pursue those responsible for his arrest, in particular the traitor who he suspects exist within MI6's ranks. For this, he will have to investigate a network of smuggling of blood diamonds and an eccentric millionaire who has a reputation for never sleeping.This is undoubtedly the worst film of Bond franchise, to date. If there is any Bond movie where everything went wrong, is this. Pierce Brosnan, who in this film says goodbye to 007, was never convincing as James Bond. He tried, did his best and that's positive, but he never truly fit in the role. And if his previous films had been saved by the excellent quality of the villains and other stuff like that, it doesn't happen in this movie. Toby Stephens works well as Graves, but his character proved to be an unlikely villain. The public simply don't believe in his character or the history around it. Rosamund Pike is a terrible choice for a Bond-girl, as her character tried to be, at some point. She is the antithesis of any bond-girl, but the script was able to make up for it in the end, when Miranda showed not be as friendly as she (ever) seemed. Finally, we have the worst participation of all: Hale Brest... ops, Berry! This actress simply has no talent. She has big breasts, only that. And if that is enough to be a good bond- girl, the world is lost. The script is another problem: despite giving focus to strong and relevant subjects such weapons and diamonds trafficking or the constant military tension in North Korea, the way the film deals with it is simply unacceptable, unlikely and far-fetched. We could accept that in the early films of the franchise, but now the public expects more and that was simply forgotten. Last but not least, the film continues to suffer from continuity errors, paradoxes and faults unworthy of cinema professionals, in addition to the massive advertising sponsors, showed in all sequences and almost every scene. Bond is a action character or a pretty face to sell things?! The opening theme of this film, sung by Madonna, was very trendy to be precisely Madonna's. But even that could have been better and more interesting.