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Summary: Pierce Brosnan: Perhaps the best Bond, in the worst movies
Review: I rarely walk out of a theatre thinking, "I just wasted two hours of my life and $7.75 and I want it back". But this movie was abjectly horrible. Think about the old James Bond movies. They actually had plot... stuff happened. Half of this movie seems to be spent in the ice palace and around the ice palace, with total implausibilities and stupid plot elements. My overall summary of this movie: It has little of the originality and cleverness of the older James Bond films. It's all action, action, action: and that's not what it's about... or not what it should be about.
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Summary: Not the best Bond film
Review: This Bond film is o.k. As the Bond films continue, the plots get worse. This movie had a horrible plot. The special effects were very good though. Hallie Barry was the best Bond girl so far. Brosnian was decent as Bond. All in all, this movie is decent and is o.k. to buy.
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Summary: THE JAMES BOND SERIES WILL NEVER END!
Review: i read a 1 star review of DAD saying the 007 series should end here. apparently he or she didn't read the end credits saying "james bond will return" and pierce brosnan has signed one to do one more 007 flick. he will be 52 or 53 once the new bond come out. definitely he should quit after that and let hugh jackman or clive owen take over as bond. but now, DIE ANOTHER DAY is another great entry in the 007 franchise. pierce gets better and better playing 007. he is relaxed and fit here. halle berry: best bond babe ever! love Q's gadgets especially the invisible car and the ring that shatters glass. love the villain gustav graves' (toby stephens) ice palace and its destruction towards the end of DAD along w/ the car chase INSIDE the sinking palace between brosnan and diamond-faced baddie rick yune. also check out the fencing battle sequence between 007 and graves that almost literally tears the house down. my only complaint, michael madsen must be the laziest actor around looking outta place as a U.S. agent. it is also the 1st time i liked madonna in her cameo as a bisexual fencing instructor + her theme song is pretty good from a non-madonna fan....
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Summary: Live And Let Compute
Review: One acronym to express my disappointment: CGI.One of the most interesting and entertaining features of the Bond franchise has since Diamonds are Forever been the very clever stunts (how many cool stunts have been seen for the first time in a Bond flick?), and how they keep on updating them as the series progresses. Two cases in point: a car driving on two wheels (Diamonds are Forever), then a tanker truck (License to Kill); a car flips (The Man With The Golden Gun), and a quarter of a century or so later, a boat does the same (The World Is Not Enough). Seeing a motorcycle jump above a Cessna (The Living Daylights) was also quite entertaining for the audacity of reversing the usual spatial relationship between these two modes of transportation. But let's get to the point. These stunts are interesting because they've been done FOR REAL. There's a certain dullness to seeing the question "How did they do that?" increasingly being answered with "CGI". Not that I don't enjoy computer-based effects, but I also tremendously respect the work of stuntmen. Therein lies I think the strength of the Bond franchise: their reliance on practical rather than simulated effects. However, knowing that an helicopter I just saw passing in a very narrow street, wreaking havoc along the way (Tomorrow Never Dies) was done with an helicopter without its blades, which were then digitally added afterwards, doesn't bother me: there is a difference between digitally creating stunts and digitally enhancing practical stunts. If the producers continue this dreadful trend away from real stunts, the franchise will lose much of its interest and will become just another spectacular but bland action series, and I will eventually stop watching the new releases. CGI, yes, BUT NOT FOR BOND! The series has for the most part toed a very fine line between believability and outrageousness (they did totally ignore this in Moonraker, though), and the producers should keep on doing so, and I think a good part of this is keeping the stunts believable. A few other minor points: aside from the sheer ridiculousness of seeing 007 surf ahead of a melting glacier or a plane slowly disintegrating, I found the invisible car a cool effect and plot device. The coda (in the aforementioned disintegrating plane) was way too long, which only added to the ridiculousness of it. I'm a long-time fan of the series (since my pre-teen years, when Radio-Canada -- the French branch of the CBC) used to show in sequence, every summer, the complete series so far on Thursday evenings), but I was sorely disappointed with this last entry...
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Summary: Not too good
Review: I like Pierce Brosnan, I like him as james Bond, but then I also liked Timothy Dalton. I don't think that the series is old but the schemes are. Jinx played by Halle Berry and she plays it with energy and there's a point where it looks liek she may be an equal. Then they go after the villain at an ice hotel, no really, it does exist, the whole place is made out of ice, and she gets imprisoned in a room. Thats where the movie fell apart for me. She can't get out of the room. She's the American equivalent of James Bond and she can't get out of an ice room? Thats when the movie really becomes bad.
You can't have someone built as an equal and then have her become the damsel in distress. Madonna's appearance is fun but she's not given a lot to work with, though the name Verity is cool.
So in the end this film, while slick, with lots of special effects, sags because James Bond is so perfect and everyone else is fallible.
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Summary: the TRL crowd would give this 5 stars
Review: when its only 2.5 tops.sure,it LOOKS great.the action is non stop,but wheres the plot?this is a prime example of a lousy rock band that depends on pyrotechnics to fool/make the audience forget that they paid to HEAR good music.here,with so much going on and having pent up anticipation for halle barrys entrence made me temporarily forget that there should be a convincing plot to follow.i have long given up on one man defeats thousands since first blood part2.and one would assume that bonds reputation would not allow him to show his face without a disguise EVER.but then again,his nemesis are too busy building the better mouse trap than to recognize a man who thwarts evil doers single handedly over and over and over ..........hey,if master of disguise made money,why shouldnt this?the TRL crowd wont know the difference.
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Summary: For crazy people who rate the movie as the worst Bond film.
Review: ...EVERYTIME a new Bond movie comes it is just better than the previous ones. This one has more action than any of the other Bond movies! I even think this is the best Action movie I have seen in my life! Miranda Frost(Rosamund Pike) was a GREAT hot Bond girl, on the other hand Halle Berry was almost at the same level of Bond which made me kind of angry, but that is the only bad thing! It has the Martinis, the fights, the cars and the gadgets! It is a very interesting movie and you will love to see it over and over again when it is released in DVD. Especially the intro, Evaluation Center escape, Cuba espionage, Sword Fight, Q-Lab Scene, Aston Martin in Iceland, Midnight espionage, Laser Fight, Icarus Escape, Car Chase, The Antonov Airplane scene and another one I wont mention ;) which was very funny. You should add it to your Bond collection! This one will be the best you can own! ... There are lots of kind of Bond movies... Sentimental, Serious, Funny, Action Packed, "Gadget-Packed", with more stunts, more espionage, more gun fights, more character development etc! DONT CRITICIZE and buy the 20 movies!
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Summary: The Best in over 20 Years
Review: I am a HUGE Bond fan-own all the movies on dvd; own all the books (except "Colonel Sun" and the Gardner books). Connery's the best, but Brosnan seems to be getting better and better with each film, culminating in "Die Another Day", his best performance,and the best Bond since "For Your Eyes Only".
The first half of this flick is VERY Fleming-Bond being tortured (as he was in many of the books), then investigating with good old fashioned detective work.
The second half is very BIG and escapist-but it works. The movie has many nods towards previous Bond movies-from Halle coming out of the water in Ursula's bikini, to the plot-a diamond-encrusted laser, and many more. The thing I loved about DAD is it was totally over-the-top, but treated itself very seriously. The scenes were directed with punch. It was the opposite of say, "Spy Who Loved Me", which was fantastic, but didn't take itself seriously. Halle Berry was great (although hardly the first ever "Equal" Bond girl-from Pussy Galore to Michelle Yeou's character in "Tomorrow Never Dies", there have been more than a few women who were more than mere set-decoration).
Does the story bog down at the end? Yes. Do some of the CG effects look bad? Yes. Is DAD in the same league as "Goldfinger", "OHMSS" or "From Russia With Love"? No. BUT, it is the best in ages, and blows away ANY of the 70's films, in my opinion (not that that's hard to do).
I must admit that, as great as Judi Dench is, M will always be Bernard Lee for me-he was a surrogate father to Bond, and I don't think it's as effective, or true to the books, having a woman play M. BUT, it does, of course, wink at 007's sexism. There will never be another Q like Desmond, but let's face it-the last few movies saw him as way too old to be still working. Cleese does a good job of UNDER-playing Q, and therefore making him believable AND funny. And although Lois Maxwell will always be the definitive Moneypenny, Samantha Bond a) has a fab last name, and b) gets dirty in this movie. Gotta' love it. Bring back Felix and I'll be happy.
See it-it ROCKS!!!! Re-vitalizes Bond, and seems more current, hip, and edgy than the last few adventures. Lee Tamahori and the writers should be commended (and indeed, Brosnan has stated that he wants them back for the next film-his last). Good job, EON!!!
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Summary: go bond go
Review: it over welm me from top to bottom,and halley(sp?) bailey was great as sex appeall, as well as a really good action hero.
colors were great they still flash before me peirce was not so english tacky and vehicles were great. it took me back to one
of my vavorites live & let die. let,s get off the planet for the
next one planet(xxxxx) that,s my on secret one you name yours.
cocours is out there waiting.
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Summary: Great, simply superb (a 13 year old enthusist)
Review: This movie had everything a Bond fan could ask for, cool stunts, explosions and a puzzle (plus more gadgets). This movie is very similiar to the recent video game "Nightfire" but with diferent bad guy and diferent plot. The weapons were the same (hint:satalite). I can't wait for the video game to come out. It would be good because James Bond has overcome a new talent, surfing. All in all it's a great movie
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