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Summary: Too much techonology and not enough story.
Review: that's been the problem with the last several James Bond films. Loaded with high tech gadgets, but the story has become pretty standard. Cardboard villians who try and take over the world. But they lack the serious nature thatpas Bond villians like Blofeld and SPECTOR had. Judi Dench always plays M very effectively and Pierce Bronson does play a good James Bond, but they are not enough to keep the films interesting. Let's face facts. MGM makes movie solely for Internet Geeks.
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Summary: DAD will be the best ever!
Review: With all the pics and spoilers i've read so far, this movie is gonna rock! Especially with Halle Berry, who won the Best Actress Oscar. Ya Berry! This time, we have an actress who can actually act. None of that Denisse Richards "acting", (though she was really hot.) We'll also see some really cool new gadgets and Bond's new car. NICE! The action looks great! And to top it off, we have our two beutiful(and smart for once, a major improvement,) Bond girls. What more can we ask? A really good site is commanderbond.net It's worth checking out!
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Summary: James Bond Lives On
Review: DIE ANOTHER DAY is a Bond movie in which everybody tried hard to come up with something special. The predictable result of all that striving was, of course, that DIE ANOTHER DAY is mostly ordinary Bond du jour. This, the 20th in the Bond series and the 40th anniversary Bond film, was consciously crafted to be a "supermovie," and it is--in spots. Hard-core Bond fans will appreciate all the nods and winks to the earlier films. Halle Berry's sudden appearance on a beach in Cuba complete with diver's knife, is pure DR. NO. And again, Berry being strapped to a laser table to be cut in half is straight out of GOLDFINGER. A diamond-powered spacecraft is the legacy of DIAMONDS ARE FOREVER. Bond plays idly with his THUNDERBALL jet-pak in Q's laboratory, and so on. Taken all together these scenes form a kind of retrospective melange that is fun to watch. How many can you identify...? The movie begins on an interesting but unusual note: Bond is captured and tortured by the North Koreans. After more than a year a dirty, long haired, battered Bond is released in a prisoner exchange. Kept in an isolation chamber by MI-6, he is stripped of his 00 number. Managing a quick escape he begins to hunt for whoever betrayed him. His travels lead him to Jinx (Berry), an American NSA agent who is also hunting the turncoat. Together with fellow agent Miranda Frost (Rosamund Pike), they target the bizarre billionaire Gustav Graves (Toby Stevens) whose right-hand man turns out to be Zhao (Rick Yune) the man Bond was exchanged for. The usual gadgets make their appearance. Best of all is an invisible Astin-Martin Vanquish, which, when visible, is easily the most-lethal looking car Bond has ever driven. Brosnan once again reprises the Conneryesque "dark Bond" of DR. NO and FROM RUSSIA WITH LOVE. Brosnan has aged a bit, and his face has developed character. In the seven years since GOLDENEYE he has finally made the role his own in a cool open-neck buttondown manner. The Havana beach scene underscores this by having the "James Bond Theme" played in the background with a Latin beat. There has been talk that Berry deserves her own Jinx franchise, and it certainly would sell. Jinx is a female Bond, wisecracking, irrepressible and endearing. The difficulties with DIE ANOTHER DAY are all the result of overexuberance on the part of the production team. They tried to create an epic, but the story drags its feet after a very promising beginning. The script quickly becomes predictable and so there's virtually no tension. The bad guys are bland (a mark of recent Bond films). Graves is too fey to seem dangerous and Zhao looks as if he mistakenly stepped off the set of "XXX." The producers need to spend more time crafting a storyline and less on the set-action pieces that define Brosnan's Bond. They also need to bring back the Bond who knows which champagne to order at what temperature. In this styleless era such touches would have a life all their own. The title of the film grinds on the mind, coming so soon after TOMORROW NEVER DIES. Worse yet is the eminently forgettable Madonna title song, a piece of techno-pop throwaway that couldn't even survive in the dance clubs. Madonna's bad cameo as the owner/instructress of a fencing school is hopefully not the augry of a 21st century trend to having the title song artists appear on camera. There is a hyperreliance on special effects. Bond parasailing off a glacier is nothing more than the most heavyhanded CGI imaginable, exactly like a video game. It looks cheap and unconvincing in the midst of this high-budget project, a film with otherwise beautiful location shooting.
The DVD is a two-disc set that is loaded with production goodies. It's all great fun. Though DIE ANOTHER DAY is "Bond 20" it definitely ranks in the top ten.
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Summary: bond ,james bond
Review: i love all james bond movies and this is a good action movie adventure and i love pierce brosnan then i am waiting bond 21 this movie is great
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Summary: Ugh
Review: Perfect title for this piece of rotted festering meat. Time to bury this dim memory of a great series...but DEEP!
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Summary: Too Far Out
Review: Not since Moonraker has a James Bond movie so egregiously departed from reality in a manner beyond tolerance. Surely, when Bond is skiing away from thirty people down a slope, avoiding hundred of bullets from automatic weapons, we grin and inwardly accept that this is outside the bounds of reality, but it's not so far out that one shudders utterly. A lot of Bond is like that, and we're okay with it, but this movie went beyond the veil in this regard. We're given DNA shapeshifters and invisible cars. We're shown a weapon of impossible, unrealistic power and gadgets that upstage the movies plot and characters entirely. Far and away, this is the worst James Bond film ever.
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Summary: What Are You People Talking About?
Review: This movie apparently has a lot of vocal fans, but dont let that fool you. This is a terrible movie. The movie rambles on for far to long with "action" sequences that get old very fast. James Bond gets captured and tortured. What is that? My final problem with this, and all other Brosnan Bond movies, is the Bad Guy. Why do they have to be lame. A bald guy who is entirely covered in metal flake silver paint isnt scary, its lame.
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Summary: Technology makes it better...!
Review: The reason that I watch James Bond movies is that I wanted to know what kind of breath-taking missions James is going to be in. After watching all the Pierce Browsnan Bond movies before this one, I thought that he gets better (and older) everytime! Another reason that I watch it because of the rare gadgets that Q always produces and this time is a big one! A ____________ car! (gotta find that out yourself)
In the twentifth movie, James gets himself caught by his enemy and tortured for a year and a half. After the MI6 trades in a "person" in return for Bond, Bond found himself unwanted back in the headquarters in Britain. Making up the decision that he is going to find out who "betray" him, he escaped the headquarters and on the road to search for any guilty people that he think that is the one who did all the dirty work. On the way on his own mission, he met Jinx (played by Halle Berry), another secret agent, as he soon discovers---together they went on to solve the mystery of a suddenly-rich diamond miner, which James thinks have something to do with his case. After MI6 finally agreeing with him, Q (John Clesse)provided great technology equipement for him which, of course, saves his neck. The actions goes from surfing on a surfboard to a magnificent car chase to escaping of a crashing plane!
Get this movie to complete your James Bond collections (although I have never watch any besides the one by Pierce)!
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Summary: London, we have a problem
Review: Haven't we ceded enough of our entertainment to the short-attention-span-suffering MTV generation without turning James Bond movies into music videos with jerky cuts and striking but pointless visuals? Director Lee Tamahori evidently doesn't think so. "Die Another Day" is by no means the worst Bond film, but it falls far short of the best ("Goldfinger", "Thunderball", and even Pierce Brosnan's first effort "Goldeneye"). The first half hour or so tampers with the Bond "formula" to some extent. Instead of a hair-raising escape, we see a hair-raising avoidance of death followed by Bond's capture by the North Korean army. Instead of the usual opening titles, we see Bond being tortured with scorpions (as the audience is tortured by Madonna's screeching attempt at a theme song). For another half hour Bond is in effect a rogue agent - didn't work in "License to Kill" and it doesn't work very well here. There's another unwelcome intrusion by Madonna, two chases over a frozen lake (where do they think they're going to escape to?), and a lot of other stuff that's way over the top even for a Bond film.
All that being said, "Die Another Day" is worth checking out. Pierce Brosnan is excellent as Bond - I was sorry to hear that he is apparently being replaced for the next installment. Halle Berry and Rosamund Pike are also very good as the romantic interests, and the rest of the cast is solid if unexeceptional. Even the over-the-top stunts are entertaining, and the plot is, I guess, no more outlandish than most Bond plots. I have a lot of problems with this movie, but I still join with those who applaud when the end credits promise that "James Bond will return".
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Summary: Please stop making these movies
Review: DIE ANOTHER DAY has everything Bond fans have come to expect from the long-running series: an explosive intro, innovative credits, larger-than-life villains, stunning women, cool techno-gadgets, spectacular stunts, edge-of-your-seat action, and a world to save! Brosnan captures the essence of Bond perfectly, so much so that if this really is his last go-round in the role it'll be very difficult to find anyone better fitted to the part. Halle Berry, beautiful and dangerous, is terrific in the role of Jinx, and the relationship between she and Bond is more convincing than most of the previous romances from the series. Much of the credit for this movie's great success lies with the surprisingly literate script, which is not only chock full of zinging dialogue and crackling action but has the guts to open with Bond's capture, imprisonment, and torture. The scenes in the North Korean dungeon are surprisingly strong, more like what you'd find in the Bond novels than the generally lighter movies. The story also incorporates a dramatic father-son dynamic that, while a minor plot point, greatly enriches the story (and is, I think, the sort of thing Ian Fleming would've run with). There are a couple of weak points--one of Bond's escape scenes is dubious at best (one wonders why he didn't use the same trick much earlier in the movie if it's THAT easy), Madonna's cameo is annoying (but mercifully brief), and Judi Dench, while a great actress, is of such unadulterated political correctness in her role as "M" that it remains hard to swallow. Nonetheless, DIE ANOTHER DAY delivers all the goods in spades and may be one of the most scintilating adventures in the Bond canon. If this is indeed Brosnan's farewell to the Bond persona, he's going out on top of the game.
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