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Summary: Holds up to high expectations. Worth watching.
Review: This movie has plenty of action and witty lines to please any James Bond Fan. It does have some original aspects to this plot but also used the tried and true Bond formula. The ending is suspenseful and full of action packed escape sequences. I find myself repeatedly saying to myself "yeah right" while Pierce Brosman and Hale Barry can always escape with little more than a scratch. Does it always have to end with the love making at the end, come on something different! Well, despite these minor cliches "Die Another Day" is worthy to the Bond series and the action is above par. I loved the eye candy and the typical Bond smoothness. I would say it's definitely worth watching.
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Summary: Bond?? What have u done?
Review: I have a few complaints for people who havent seen Bond 20. 1. There is a Sci-Fi feel to this film. The beggining was EXCELLENT, Real stunts, back to basics, kick BEHIND bond. but then in the second half, the sci-fi, xxx feel came into it, that for one I did not like. I reminded me of Moonraker with the space fight at the end all the way through the 2nd half. 2. I thought James Bond would be the ONE spy series that would stand the test of time by using CGI right. As in backgrounds and such. CGI was used WAY 2 MUCH. Bond going down that wave, the plane sequence, the helicopter falling. COME ON. This isent XXX. But it seems that like the whole movie was trying to compete with XXX. Bonds of the past used REAL STUNTS, and everything your seeing on the screen is real in some way. I NEVER THOUGHT I would come away from a bond movie that I wasent that impressed with. The old bonds used stunt man, real stunts that made the movies real and CGI can NEVER rival. Thats why XXX is so bad. Bond 21 better only use CGI sparingly, or Bond will end up a classier XXX. WHICH BETTER NOT HAPPEN, or brosnan will go out like Rogger did, and the next bond actor will have alot of S*** to clean up.
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Summary: Much better
Review: Very entertaining. Far better than the last couple that came out. Not nearly as hokey as the previous releases.
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Summary: Bond Is Really Back In Action!
Review: DIE ANOTHER DAY is the 20th in the bond series. It has a nice twist in that in the beginning 007 fails and becomes a POW. It the twists in the story that make this film very interesting. Pierce Brosnon (Remington Steel, The Thomas Crown Affair, The World Is Not Enough) does a great job in this film and seems to play vulnerability well. The story is that of a terrorist and diamond collector wanna-be that develops a device that could - you guessed it - destroy the world. Directed by Lee Tamahori (Mullholland Falls) this is the technically finest of any of the Bond films. Score by David Arnold ( )This film has action and gadgets like you wouldn't believe. The star prop in this film, is, as in most of the Bond films, his car. This one is invisible. Not to mention his high tech watch and incredible stunts like you haven't seen before. The effects and technology have changed so much that you can't tell what's real and what is digital. Oh, and did I mention that James Bond always gets the girl? Or, "Girls" rather? Now the cast is very cool. Halle Berry (X-men, Monsters Ball, Bullworth) is really good and an American Agent and she can really strut her stuff both in the bedroom and when she is dodging bullets. There is swordplay and fighting, chasing, car crashes, airplane explosions, laser destruction, high-speed ice battles and so much more. The villains are played by Toby Stephens (Space Cowboys, Orlando) and Rick Yune (The Fence, Fast and Furious) . And, you could expect nothing but the best from British Secret Service Leader - Judi Dench ( Shakespeare In Love, Iris, The Shipping News ) as "M" and the ever and always funny John Cleese (Holy Grail, A Fish Called Wanda ) and "Q". Overall this film had action and adventure and an extreme adrenaline rush from beginning to end. The only thing that was a little "out of place" was the opening titles. They were not as "Bondish" as they usually are. Not as interesting and more abstract. However, who could be the title song sung by Madonna - who also makes a cameo appearance as a Sword Play expert. She looks good. If you are a bond fan, you'll enjoy this experience and if you are not or never seen a Bond film - you are in for the ride of your life. The film is for the whole family. (11-22-02)
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Summary: Wins 2 Awards: Worst Soundtrack and Worst Bond Film Ever
Review: Physics and biology (neither of which are my strong points) were so totally thrown out the window that almost none of the "stunts" were believeable. As a director, if you have to cut and splice your shots together because the stunts are impossible to perform, maybe you should try something that makes sense! After seeing this Bond film, it will be very difficult to pry me away from my collection of classic Bond movies. Even Roger Moore made some better movies than this one. Oh wait, this movie is the first 19 movies all rolled into one! Let's see: where did we see a movie about Diamonds that had a satellite weapon which focused the power of the sun? (I could go on and on, trust me on this). Also, if the "villain" has a DNA-altering machine that can change someone's looks completely, can't it remove diamonds from someone's face? Bring back Oddjob. Since the rest of this movie makes no sense, his return will fit right in... Finally: the scene where Bond takes his pistol out from under the pillow and tucks it away in his holster without making sure the clip is full and a round is in the chamber, was so out of character that it screamed that the audience was being set up for another stupid scene later. This installment will ONLY appeal to young children and possibly teens who never watched a real action-adventure movie with a strong villain. Next time make a Bond film I'd like: Dalton reprising the role of Bond one last time. Connery playing a villain that he has creative control over. That would get me back to the theater!
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Summary: Horrifyingly Disappointing
Review: I love James Bond. I have really enjoyed all the Brosnan Bond movies, as well. This being the case, I was very excited for the release of this film. To say that I am disapointed is a bit of an understatement. First, what other reviewers have said here prior to my review is true: this film is increadibly unbelievable. It plays more like a "Batman" film than a spy movie. Granted, all Bond movies require more than the fair share of "suspension of disbelief", but it's always been done very toung-in-cheek. Here, it's just foolishenss. We have an invisable car, genetic enhancements, a space laser (I kept thinking about Austin Powers and Dr. Evil saying "laaassser"), and a diamond-faced jerk as a bad guy. I guess the most painful aspect of the whole thing is the lack of any magic or substance. The gagets are in the film for the sake of having gagets. The plot is contrived and weak, and honestly didn't even make much sense to me. I enjoyed the first 1/3 of the movie, with Bond's investigation in Cuba. However, once he and Hale Berry blew up that lab, it all went down hill. The entire ending portion taking place in the ice palace was horrific and bogus. Even the characters were bad. Jinx was boring and shallow to say the least. The new Q is dull. Moneypenny does virtually (pun intended) nothing, and neither does M. The villans are so bad, I can't even remember them. The only vaguely interesting character is Frost, the evil babe. This really was a stinker...it's sad, but true. It pains me to say all this, believe me
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Summary: INSULTS ADULT INTELLIGENCE. WHAT A BOMB!
Review: Die Another Day is a stale, overused, exhausted Martini, the same olive first used in 1962. This twentieth entry is the worst of the Brosnan bunch and, indeed, one of the worst of the entire franchise. In this way, the film does distinguish itself. James Bond himself barely survives the wretched Madonna song that opens the film in probably the one original take the film has in the series. After the standard issue action prologue, Bond is captured and submitted to 14 months of torture in North Korea. When the British government negotiates his release in a trade for a Korean henchman named Zao, despite opposition from his superiors, Bond seeks revenge on the player who betrayed him, to be named much later in the movie. The obvious, sophomoric sexual references in this movie seemed to have been written by a thirteen year old for his thirteen year old peers. Also, I counted no less than four separate uses of the phrase "get the point?" in unclever double entendre references to sharp blades. It could have been worse, used five times. Then there's the lack of context for Bond bedding down with Jinx (Halle Berry) a couple of minutes after he meets her for the first time in Cuba. Two minutes after getting their drinks, there's a jump cut to them bouncing up and down on a bed with no logical sequence in between. It's as though director Lee Tamahori said, "Enough drinking Jinx and Bond, get into the sex scene." Maybe he said exactly that. In general, Halle Berry's performance was God-awful. Playing a Bond girl after winning the Oscar "for all the black women," Berry is now actually pushing for a spin-off of her Jinx character. This reveals her ego is much larger than her breasts. Other than Berry's Die Another Day lines "yo' mama" and "read this . . . there's nothing that Berry can possibly offer to a spin-off. After about an hour, we are allowed to meet the man who just may be Bond's target, the notoriously totally bland Gustav Graves. Looking more like Conan O'Brien's evil twin, he doesn't even come close to being a worthy adversary. Gustav's Hamlet-like fencing match with Bond is ridiculous. There's plenty of action, certainly not adrenaline-pumping, yet most of it isn't that bad. But poor special effects don't help. In the good old 007 days, Bond directors had to actually invent and carry out new stunts without the use of a computer. In Die Another Day, during an extended escape sequence, Bond jumps into a high speed ice glider and jets away from Graves' ice palace. You can see the string pulling the glider in one shot, and when Bond flies off the edge of the glacier it is one of the worst individual effects moments in recent movie history. Enduring Die Another Day on the big screen for two hours rivals Bond's torture in North Korean captivity. Even one hour of this cliché-riddled movie would have been enough, provided Madonna's abrasive opening song was replaced with silence.
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Summary: Bomb...James Bomb.
Review: Attention all moviegoers: You may now stick a fork in James Bond...he's officially done! "Die Another Day" is the final nail in the coffin of the once-proud franchise that produced such highly-entertaining films as "The Spy Who Loved Me," "Goldfinger" and "For Your Eyes Only. " Time was, this series relied on wit, spectacular stunts and entertaining storylines to propel a movie. Now those successful traits have been replaced with clunky one-liners, cheesy special effects and ludicrous plotting...which, in case you were wondering, are not good things in a movie! If you enjoy these qualities, go see the slightly-superior (aargh...I can't believe I'm saying this) "XXX!" Of course, choosing between "XXX" and "Die Another Day" is like deciding between death by lethal injection or drowning, but that's beside the point! Don't get me wrong, the classic Bond films had their fair share of outrageous stunts, but at least they were within the realm of possibility...after all, the filmmakers didn't have computer graphics to rely on, they had to have actual stuntmen perform them! But James Bond parasurfing on a glacier? Completely ludicrous, not to mention dumb!! I saw this film with three of my friends, and we all agreed -- "The worst Bond film of all time!" And that's not like saying "The worst Indiana Jones film of all time," which isn't a bad thing to say because of the relative high quality of all of the films in that series. The Bond franchise has been churning out turkeys on a regular basis for years, so saying it's the worst of them all really means something (after all, how can you make a movie worse than "The World is Not Enough" and "License to Kill"?). I want to collectively grab MGM executives, shake them for an hour, then make them sit down and watch "good" James Bond movies (i.e. any of the films made prior to 1987) so they can see how far they're strayed from the once fool-proof formula. It's not hard to make a good James Bond movie, butuntil they realize what they're doing wrong (which is everything) and fix it, I will never see a "new" Bond movie again!
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Summary: Very entertaining
Review: Die Another Day was very entertaining. At moments I thought is was as good as a James Bond movie gets (however it did not sustain that). It is enhanced by many self-references, ranging from some obvious ones, like Halle Berry wearing Ursula Anders bikini, to more obscure ones, like Bond posing as an ornithologist after noticing a book on birds while on a Caribbean island (Ian Fleming borrowed Bond's name from the author of such a book while on Jamaica). Another good obscure reference is to a Colonel Moon (Colonel Sun is the name of the first Bond book written by someone other than Fleming). Through the early part of the movie, Bond gets beaten severely, is decidedly imperfect, and is essentially rejected by his own service. This is all very refreshing. It all makes his challenge seem more serious. His villains seem more villainous, and Halle Berry works well as a Bond girl on par with Bond as a secret agent. Some of the gadgets and special effects are too exaggerated. This cartoonish aspect contrasts sharply with the rest of the movie. But it never sinks to Roger Moore depths of silliness. I enjoyed it very much and look forward to the series continuing.
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Summary: Fun, but...
Review: The 20th James Bond film not only marks the 40th anniversary series but also shows a sometimes desperate effort to make the franchise as contemporary as possible. The gadgets go way too far at times, making this seem like a comic book movie. Don't get me wrong; I love comic book heroes and comic book movies. Still, it somehow bothered me to see Bond going so far in that direction. It's a fun movie, and I enjoyed it, but the invisible car and such distracted me even more than the overly obvious product placement. I recently read that a current internet campaign involves pushing Adrian Paul (the TV incarnation of The Highlander) as the next Bond. That sounds good, but I'm glad Pierce Brosnan agreed to at least one more Bond film beyond this one. Brosnan plays the role with the required wit and style, along with a little vulnerability. I also hope Halle Berry will reprise her role as Jinx.
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