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Summary: Good action film, bad Bond movie.
Review: If you watch this I recommend not applying anything you know about Bond films. Throw it all out, ignore it. The film is good for modern day, but lacks the feeling that something like Bourne Identity gives, true espionage! The days of On Her Majesty's Secret Service, From Russia with Love, Goldfinger, etc are gone and will never return. High tech special effects and sci-fi gagetry are the norm for the new Bond films but that is what sells for the masses. The story is lacking and beyond believablity. Past Bond films were way out there too but still had a small amount of reality to them - with the exception of Moonraker. Its a good action movie and the homage it plays to all the previous films is fun to catch hidden through out the film. But still lacks the true feel of international espionage. As the cold war ended so did the good Bond films.
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Summary: Awful
Review: This film is one of the worst Bond films ever, next to Moonraker. It seems like the new thing with the Brosnan era is to rotate between realistic and bizzar. This is way to out there and what is great about Bond is that you can believe most of it. This is so down right ridiculous it's hard to enjoy i. it's a shame because the beginning of this movie sets it up to be deep and powerful, but that quickly fades into the obscure. Maybe after watching this a several times I'll enjoy it more, but after my first viewing I couldnt help but cringe in my seat.
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Summary: heh heh....watch another movie
Review: I am a major James Bond fan. I like to give all the movies a fair chance...but this one...awful. It had a wonderful premise to start with...JB gets captured and then released but nobody trusts him blah blah. Then, he escapes and you think "hey he is going to use all his covert and independent connections to catch this guy without the help of the British govt. He is going to single-handedly nail this terrorist." Something like that...then BOOM. Nope, M calls him in and stupid plot ensues. Halle Berry does not help. It seems these days that Bond women have such a bad reputation for being vapid and stupid (they are not...watch the old movies and some actually have character) that ANY hint of attitude immediately seems to label them as "a breath of fresh air." Zao...a wasted character. They tell us nothing about him but he and JB are enemies somehow...and then he does nothing cool. And he dies like a Long Island teenager in an IROC on a snowy day. I have to admit...the motivation of the main villain was ALMOST practical, but then you always wonder in these cases, when you have a multi-trillionaire villain, why don't they rely more on their money to manipulate things? Here is the problem - Living Daylights and License to Kill had two of the best plots so far...(cloak and dagger, and rogue agent) but not too many people liked the actor. I won't touch that right now. So then Goldeneye comes out...and because of the long time between movies, the new actor, the very very different music, the emotional look in to JB's motivation for his job....it took too many people too long to agree. Goldeneye is an AMAZING JB movie, and one of the best if not the best (watch the fight scene between 007 and 006 at the end). However, the reviews were mixed...because people were not sure what they wanted. So, obviously, producers and directors said "they want the old JB formula!" News flash...there IS no JB formula. Gadgets!?! Gadgets!? THAT is what people want? Come ON, we just had a movie with Gadget in the title that sucked. Anyhoo, the JB franchise needs a brave soul to give us a PLOT that makes sense. Give us a villain with motivation. Who even cares if JB has a girlfriend? Take a chance and leave it out. Pierce Brosnan, it should be pointed out, has the ability to play JB very very well, and can run with anything thrown to him. So please, throw him something good, or dont try to "make another movie." This series is laughing at itself.
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Summary: Best James Bond Movie To Date
Review: I think that this is the best bond film to date. Pierce does an excellent job once again as he has done in Goldeneye, Tomorrow Never Dies, and The World Is Not Enough. Halle Berry deserved every mintue in being in this film. She won a VERY important award at the time and i think that being in a bond film was left from her doing. I have been a bond fan ever since the game for Nintendo 64 came out which was Goldeneye i play it and loved it and then i heard it was a movie. I saw the movie and was such a fan of the movie then i stared becoming a fan from then on. I love all the James Bond Movies and feel that each actor that play james Bond did justice to the movies and play the roles they were suppose to play. Die Another Day brings so much action in this latest flick it leaves you brealthless. Also i love the dancing, electric water girls that start off in the beaging. I think that makes the opening of every james bond movie to get up and dance also. Die Another Day is a great movie everyone should get it on DVD/VHS.
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Summary: I loved this!
Review: This was a great movie! It went back to more of the basic bond format. It's great when you get such a strong female character such as Jinx kicking booty right along side Bond. This was awesome and I hope more great Bond movies are to come.
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Summary: Bond is Back!
Review: Did I even need to say that this is an excellent movie? It's a Bond film so of course it's good. For the that entire Friday night after I saw the film at the best theatre in town I had Maddona's Die Another Day song stuck in my head. This Bond has everything the other ones had and more. Fighting in a burning jet, Q's great gadgets and everything else is in Die Another Day. I did not save this movie because I am going to buy it as soon as I can. Everyone should see this movie.
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Summary: Best Bond movie since Connery
Review: Granted, the sexy banter between Bond and Halle Barre is embarrisgly bad. I personally gnashed my teeth during those scenes as the sound of grating molars was more pleasant. Halle Barre herself though makes prior Bond girls look fat and pasty. She's inhumanly beautiful coming out of the water in her first scene, putting to shame the woman from the original Bond movie which this mimicks, or pays homage to if you like. Bad banter aside, this is the very very very best Bond flick since Sean Connery. No, pretty boy doesn't come close to Connery's sophistication, charisma, and confidence, but Remington Steele is getting much better with age, it's as if he's hit his prime, maybe age has just made him finally appear to be a real man rather than a momma's boy; maybe it's also the fact that this film humanizes Bond by torturing him (literally), as the Ian Fleming books did (at least the first book, Casino Royale); he is also humiliated and shamed before his agency, and these things make him seem real, vulnerable, and also as if something important is actually at stake as he goes on his mission, as revenge is definitely an unstated part of his goal. My girlfriend agrees that this film is the best in a loooong time, but also thinks Bond was not ruthless enough in this flick, as he cared too much for Halle Barre. I disagree, though, and think that emotion, which this time I really believed, added power to the movie. That said, this is not an old fashioned Bond film, though there are old fashioned touches, things that hark back to Goldfinger, and somehow a palace made of ice seemed to hit the right note, absurd but just absurd enough to be completely satisfying; there's a general grittiness that has been missing for years in this film as well; action is keyed up to the max (some of it quite implausible but refreshingly inventive and I appreciated that); high key action is of course very different from the original Connery Bonds, but somehow the aciton in this film was more interesting than in most recent Brosnan Bond flicks, again probably because I really felt that something was at stake for Bond in this film, and I also felt that Bond this time around was a real, mortal, flesh and blood human being. I actually LIKED this guy, Bond, and I haven't done that since the 1960's. So in summary, Brosnan has never been better, the plot is decent, the action is the best of any Bond film ever made, and it keeps ratcheting up right to the end.
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Summary: The Ultimate Bond DVD
Review: When I first saw Die Another Day in theaters, I was a little concerned when the familiar gun-barrel opening sequence was altered, and James Bond turned to shoot a CGI bullet directly at the camera, Matrix-style. Would this be the Bond I knew and loved?
But it was, and better than ever. Die Another Day keeps all of the crucial elements of a Bond film in place, with Halle Berry as a beautiful Bond girl, Iceland and Cuba among the exotic locals, a hovercraft chase and sufing among the action scenes---but adds a refreshing hipness to the film that has been lacking in the past few. It also has, being the 20th film in the Bond series, several clever nods to previous Bond films.
The DVD itself looks incredible, with tons of extra features such as "The Making Of" and commentary. Die Another Day also has the distinction of being the first Bond DVD to have 2 discs---one for special features.
As I walked out of seeing Die Another Day in theaters, I commented on the CGI opening, calling it merely a nice touch.
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Summary: A nice change of pace for a Bond movie
Review: I just recieved an illegal "Loaned for awards consideration only" copy of DIE another Day on DVD. While the movie is a big departure for the traditional Bond type movie. I did find it a bit different from the theater experience. The CGI stuff that so annoyed me on the big screen was less annoying, yet the forced in there maddonna cameo was increasingly more annoying. I gave this 4 stars due to 1. Pierce is james bond. 2. totally different from any other bond movie. 3. Bond girl has a something more to do than have a suggestive name and look good in a bathing suite.
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Summary: Pierce's best and a nice entry in the series
Review: Pierce Brosnan returns as James Bond after a three year absence, in the first Bond movie of the 21st century. In it, he has been discredited and stripped of his licence to kill, and must track down those responsible. Not the most complex plot, but that's nothing out of the ordinary in the series. Before I say anything else, I am going to come out and say one thing: I think Pierce Brosnan has made some exceptional Bond movies. Say what you will about the series running out of steam or being way past its prime; I think that since 1995, the series has pushed Bond in new directions in every movie that has been made - in Goldeneye, Bond must deal with being a man out of time, whose values really don't fit those of the world around him; in Tomorrow Never Dies, he must deal realistically with the aftermath of a love that he left behind - undoubtedly something which happens between all the movies; and in The World is Not Enough (hereafter referred to as TWINE), he deals with falling in love again - really falling in love, something he hasn't done since On Her Majesty's Secret Service. Following the dark, moody and introspective TWINE, it seems like a conscious effort was taken to lighten things up a little bit. I'm not got to engage in the "this is the best one since..." game that goes on with each new Bond release. I'll just say this: it's Pierce's best. Also, it's simultaneously the most forward-looking and backward-looking Bond that has come in this modern era of Bond films. The opening hour, in which Bond does some detecting to try and restore his name, is tight and well done. It seems familiar, yet feels new. Pierce has really grown into the role, and begins to inject a little of his personality, mostly in the form of some wicked dark humor. Cuba makes a great location, and Halle Berry makes a terrific companion/foil for Bond. The second half of the movie, which takes place in Iceland, is much more over the top than the first, giving it a 'Roger Moore' feel. It is a little jarring, and almost feels like a different movie at first, but things soon begin to fall into place and make sense. Toby Stevens, as Gustav Graves, makes a fine, smarmy villain, Rick Yune, as Zao, makes a great henchman; and Rosamund Pike is a knockout as Graves' personal assistant. There are only a couple of missteps in the whole movie: one, the obvious use of CG in a couple of places, and two, the protracted climax aboard an airplane. Let's just say it gets Moonraker-level silly. But it never stops being a whole lot of fun. A thrill of a ride, explosive, exciting and fun. Do we have to wait another three years?
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