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Summary: Way to finish as Bond Brosnan
Review: Why anyone would dis this Bond movie is beyond me. And it's a shame that Pierce Brosnan will no longer play the role since he finally hit his mark. This bond movie has everything a 007 fan would want: Beautiful women, formidable villains, intense action, hi-tech gadgetry and awesome locations. Halle Berry should be on the top 3 list of best Bond Babes. Her character is believable and she does a great job of delivering the goods as "Jinx" an American spy working alongside 007. This movie has some great surprises and the fencing duel between Bond and Graves is as good if not better than any battles in previous 007 movies. It is unfortunate that just when your sold on Brosnan as Bond, he has to retire.
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Summary: Colonel Moon, did you lose your Korean speaking abilities?
Review: Since Toby Stephens was set to play BOTH Gustav Graves AND Colonel Moon (in genetically or at least surgically altered form) his Korean really should have been much, much more smooth when he revealed his true identity to his father, General Moon.Aside from the atrocious speaking gaffe, there are other problems with this debacle of a film. There are so many, but this reviewer will mention only a few. The (U.S.) C.I.A. does not, indeed can not, order the Republic of Korea's armed forces to do anything. The farms in the R.O.K. are now plowed by motourised tractors, not mules! And Iceland is not all that icy; instead, Greenland is. This installment vies with "A View to a Kill" (1985) as the worst James Bond 007 movie(s) of all time. After V/K with Roger Moore, the franchise somehow managed to continue, with "The Living Daylights" (1987) and "The World is not Enough" (1999) marking the high points. On balance, though, this series most likely has at long last run its course, for the bulk of the movies that came out after the ascension of Gorbachev (remember him?) in the then-U.S.S.R. are indistinguishable from all the other action-oriented films. May Bond rest in peace.
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Summary: A New Bond Film
Review: James Bond comes back to theaters in his latest adventure yet. Unlike most other Bond films, this uses a lot of CG work, and does not have a lot of great stunts. It does have the usually traveling around the world and all the special gadgets though. It had a different opening as well. Most Bond films show James escaping from a situation, or accomplishing a mission, but this film opens by having James get captured in North Korea. The overall movie was a lot different than any other Bond film.
Most Bond films usually do everything in reality, if they could really do it. When Bond jumped off the dam in Goldeneye, that was a guy jumping off a dam. When Bond went of the cliff in the Spy Who Loved Me, that was a guy free-falling for a good amount of time before opening his parachute. However, this movie did not have any of those record breaking stunts. Most of the stunts are done with some kind of computer enhancment. Not that it ruins the movie, but it just does not seem like any other Bond film.
Halle Barry becomes a "Bond Girl". She plays Jinx, an American agent instructed to kill Zao. Zao is the main bad guy's sidekick, flunky, whatever. Like other Bond Villains, such as Knicknack or Jaws, Zao has his own signature look that seperates him from other people. The mark? He has a good bundle of diamonds stuck in the right side of his face from a freak diamond explosion in the beginning of the film. "Expensive acne". Because of the retirenment of Q, and the death of Desmond, John Cleese has become the new, "younger" Q. Unlike the old Q, this new Q is quick, moving from one gadget to next immediately, and being somewhat comical as well. I think I'm going to like this new Q.
Once again, Bond travels around the world in his adventure. Going to places high and low, hot and cold, dark and bright, actual locations and other locations. The movie begins in a very cold and pale North Korea. Then Bond is sent all the way to the sunny land of Cuba. After work there, ge goes to meet the big bad guy for the SECOND time in England. M sends Bond to the white, ice covered land of Iceland. Once he gets done there, he is sent back to North Korea. Of course, some of these locations were not the actual locations. They can't film in Cuba or North Korea.
Overall, this is one of the most enjoyable Bond films. There is a lot of good action such as, the fight scenes, the car chase on the ice in iceland, great stuff like that. Halle Barry is one of the Bond Girls, and Madonna makes a brief appearacne, she also did the opening credits song. Pierce Brosnan is definately the best Bond to this day, followed by Sean Connery.
Entertainment = 8.8/10
Favorite Scene = That would have to be the opening where Bond and a few others come into North Korea by surfing. Once they get there, they arrest some guy and have Bond take his place. This is where Bond blows up some diamonds in Zao's face and gets to meet the Bond Villain for the first time. It's also where he gets caught.
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