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Summary: OLD BOND IN A NEW BOTTLE--SHAKEN, NOT STIRRED!
Review: Pierce Brosnan returns as James Bond for the fourth and I hope--final--time in DIE ANOTHER DAY, this time with Halle Berry a token black female in this movie who's supposedly as a Bond girl but completely outacted by Rosamund Pike as double agent Miranda Frost.The story is a mix of THUNDERBALL, DIAMONDS ARE FOREVER, AND DR. NO, and it's a convoluted, boring story about James Bond where Bond starts off the movie getting captured--who wants to see that???--and tortured by North Koreans--and then is taken off duty by M, Judi Dench, yet decides to suddenly work on his own. The action is typical of the Brosnan Bond movies, long, seemingly endless car chases, lots of gadgets, loud music, and frequent attempts to bring back the Sean Connery charm with women that just don't work. But the worst thing about DIE ANOTHER DAY is that Pierce Brosnan now looks just like any other middleaged man, and so you start feeling like you could be watching any movie, not necessarily James Bond, and that means it's time for a new James Bond, because DIE ANOTHER DAY IS OLD BOND IN A NEW BOTTLE--SHAKEN, NOT STIRRED!
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Summary: Better than the average Bond
Review: Pierce Brosnan does an excellent job as James Bond and Berry is another pretty face amoung many others(not her best preformance in a film). However, the film does hold its own and is worth seeing by even the people who don't care for a Bond movie.
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Summary: Die Another Day
Review: Pierce Brosnan still has his class and probably will for a long time coming. This Bond film is by far at the top of my list for Bond films if not #1. It has good special effects, witty humor, beautiful women, in an essence all that we Bond film viewers love in a Bond film. I believe the story line was done well. In this day and age it seems that action films have similiar stories, but this film had a different twist to it, and I liked that about it as well. Also, despite the usual Bond gadgets this film seemed almost to have a realistic sense to it. It did not seem too far from what would could be a reality years down the road. I would more then recommend watching this film, even if you aren't an avid Bond viewer.
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Summary: Deserves 0 stars!
Review: Horrible, horrible! If Pierce Brosnan thinks this is a good movie, he does not deserve to be Bond. (He's one for four as far as I'm concerned (World is Not Enough being the only watchable one he's made). To the Broccoli family: Sell the series to someone else if this is what you're going to give us!
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Summary: why, you only live twice?
Review: the director of die another day said he wanted to go back to the bond of you only live twice.
why?
that film was, rightly, the film that prompted connery to leave the franchise.
it was the beginning of style over substance. decor over plot.
slickness in place of grit.
well, whatever, tamahori got just what he wanted and we got yet another empty headed bond opus.
the only decent bond with brosnan has been goldeneye and even it was a little thin on plot.
as for borsnan himself;
way over rated.
oh, he fits the bill okay, but lacks any originality whatsover.
i dare to say that actually, connery, moore and dalton were all far more original. connery gave us edge with style.
moore refused to take it seriousely and gave us satire (and did it well for a while). dalton gave us an abundance of edge. actually, he gave us a lethal dose and his bond is more 'cop' than any bond.
but brosnan simply mixes the previous three. he does have some edge, he does have some satire, and a times, he has the leanness of dalton.
but he has nothing of his own.
whats good about this then?
the whole diamonds and ice thing works well and for the first time in a long time we have a really cool bond theme song ( but the singer of that song unfortunately makes an awful cameo).
hopefully, the new prodcers will someday allow the franchise to take some new, edy directions.
if not, it will in time, inevitably, die another day, but die it will.
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Summary: Is James Bond dead or have the producers just ruined him?
Review: First off, I love James Bond, and I don't dislike Pierce Brosnan, but this movie is beyond bad! I agree with so many of the other reviews here: Horrid script, no characterization, inane dialouge, bad direction... I could go on! Can we please have a well written script with an actual story that's well crafted and edited, containing real characters with dialogue of real human beings! I mean this is James Bond, so it doesn't have to be Shakespeare, but there was a time when this series was A-list escapist entertainment that everyone else tried to emulate. Please get new directors, stop hiring American actresses (all bad in these movies/and it used to be your edict not to hire them!), get new writers and a script editor, get rid of John Cleese and the "star cameos" (would Goldinger have been better if Peter Sellers was Q!) As long as John Barry's drawing breath why not use him, he's a genius... If not, get a new composer because the one you have now is nowhere in the realm of good. And maybe it is time to hire Hugh Jackman and have fresh blood and a young sex symbol play Bond... you haven't had an actor play him for the age he supposes to be (late thirties) according to his creator Ian Fleming, since Sean "the Bond" Connery. Maybe it's time the Producers, who are obviously weary, indecisive, fearful and bad creators to hand it all over to someone enthusiastic, purposeful, and talented? No? Well at least hire a creative team who can make great movies... (How about the director of X-men? How about the composer of Band of Brothers? How about foreign actresses who are beautiful, talented and over 25? How about special effects that make the action more vivid and thrilling and not more ridiculous and "spectcle" driven?) PLEASE! Someone help this beloved franchise! Everyone wants it to improve!!!
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Summary: Bond meets Mr. Faulty
Review: This is an excellent Bond movie with great stunts, plenty of action and of course the women. A lot was made of Hale Berry she was interesting and a good character but didn't take over the movie as suggested. I'm really getting sick of M being played for a fool in these movies. This never happened before Ms Dench took the Job. The sword fight in the center was quite awsome and I didn't recognize Madona dressed she should try it more often. Bond Locked up for over a year was interesting. However this movie hit a brick wall for me when John Cleese came on the screen. Cleese plays Q as Basil Faulty and the result is SO good and SO funny that it frankly eclipses the rest of the movie. I find myself smiling just thinking about it. There is an excellent comic moment at the end tangently involving Cleese as well. Both of those scenes are worth the price of the movie.
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Summary: May Be The Very Worst Bond Movie
Review: I love James Bond. They are pure escapism fun, but I hated DIE ANOTHER DAY and think it may well be the very worst Bond movie yet. I have no toruble at suspending disbelief when I watch a movie, but I do like to be entertained, not insulted. In DIE ANOTHER DAY, the writing was terrible and there was really no story at all--just one cheap, glossy stunt after another strung together with some of the poorest dialogue I've ever heard. I'm no Halle Berry fan, but I don't think she "ruined" this movied as so many others have said. I found her acting wooden and amateurish, but let's be honest, she really didn't have much to work with. I didn't care for her character, Jinx and thought she was "too strong" and "too techno" for a "Bond girl." M and Mrs. Moneypenny were treated badly by the writers, too. Mrs. Moneypenny was the target of a would be joke completely lacking in humor while M's character was rendered downright neurotic. And what the heck was Madonna doing in this film? Having her sing (badly and flat, but that that was nothing new) the title song was bad enough; inserting her into the film (even in a cameo) was a slap in the face. If the writers simply wanted to make a bad thing worse, they more than succeeded. The stunts were ridiculous. I expect the unbelievable when I watch James Bond and I like it, but DIE ANOTHER DAY took a good thing too far. The palace of ice and the invisible care were horrible, but the writers really lost me during that ridiculous parasailing scene. James Bond is very definitely "high tech" but he's not "techno trash." At least, he shouldn't be. On the plus side, I thought Rosamund Peek (Miranda Frost) was gorgeous but alas, wasted in this film. And much credit has to be given to Pierce Brosnan for remaining "James Bond" despite being given material so lousy it was embarrassing. Overall, not even worth renting.
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Summary: its all good up to a point
Review: Die Another Day was a decent Bond flick until they had to nearly ruin it with the Icarus satellite plot device. its basically a rehash of Diamonds are Forever. i take it that the Bond Writers are running out of ideas. they should stick to the roots of For Your Eyes Only and From Russia With Love which concentrates more on plot and characters than special effects and gadgets. but overall i loved the tributes to the old films (although a bit too much)and finally we get to see Bond in a Compromised position since License to Kill especially when he got captured and locked up in a North Korean prison cell for over a year while being routinely tourtured and drugged (possibly even used as a Programmed Assassin, its in the movie!)lastly, we need a good actor to play a Bond Villan (Gary Oldman or Anthony Hopkins in mind?).
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Summary: James Bond is continually declining
Review: These movies have gotten a lot worse since his Thunderball days.I am a huge fan and have seen every Bond movie.Halle Berry plays one of the worst girlfriends ever and does a lame acting job.The movie is reasonably entertaining but check out some Bond movies from the '60s.
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