Laikals The greatest movie ever made..!

CrawlerChunky In truth, there is barely enough story here to make a film.

Fairaher The film makes a home in your brain and the only cure is to see it again.

Roy Hart If you're interested in the topic at hand, you should just watch it and judge yourself because the reviews have gone very biased by people that didn't even watch it and just hate (or love) the creator. I liked it, it was well written, narrated, and directed and it was about a topic that interests me.

mattkratz Pierce Brosnan bows out of his role as James Bond in a decent Bond movie once again laden with chase scenes and bad guys and gorgeous ladies. He battles the North Koreans (the latest bad guys in American films) as the action pursues. I sort of liked this and the impressive cast. (Bosnan, Halle Berry, Rosamund Pike, John Cleese, etc.). It could have been better, though, especially with the plot, and maybe some more cool gadgets.** out of ****

Leofwine_draca Bond is brought smack-bang into the 21st century with DIE ANOTHER DAY. It's a long way from the likes of Sean Connery and DR. NO, but still holds true to the formula that made the films work in the first place: a powerful and creative hero, not superhuman but just very very good; lots of attractive female companions who can hold their own against the guys; some truly memorable villains, and a thin storyline over which plays out tons of action and excitement. Forget the non-excitement of the passable but uninteresting THE WORLD IS NOT ENOUGH and instead sit down to watch an action-packed ride through danger, thrills, spills and fun.The story isn't the best that Bond has seen but it will do for the film. The first hour is the main set-up whereas the last is the payoff, basically consisting of one long set-piece that unfolds into another, altogether more gripping set-piece. Nothing wrong with that in my mind. True, things start off a little oddly. First is the title song, this time some ridiculous techno-funk nonsense performed by a down-on-her-luck Madonna (who cameos pointlessly later on in the proceedings). It wins the award for worst theme song hands down and doesn't bode well for the rest of the movie. But things pick up for the opening, which sees Bond expertly extract himself from a sticky situation and engage in another ferocious chase, this time on hover crafts. Expect to see plenty of heavy weaponry and firepower in this splendid opening battle which follows the classic Bond trend. After this things go a little strange again, with Bond incarcerated for over a year in prison and systematically tortured and beaten. A first for the series, scenes which attempt to give some grit and darkness to the franchise. Why, I'm not too sure.Thankfully things straighten out soon afterwards as a go-it-alone Bond tries to find an enemy to extract some very personal revenge. Judi Dench is back as M, this time sharing some heated arguments with a Bond whom she now feels is useless. There are some other returning faces, including John Cleese who has now taken over the role of Q since the sad demise of Desmond Llewellyn, as well as a few new ones – it's nice to see Michael Madsen in a major film role again, even if he is totally wasted as the American adviser. Bond finds himself caught up in the clutches of Halle Berry and Rosamund Pike to spread more of the witty one-liners and suggestive double-entendres which are more cringe-worthy than ever. Nothing new on that front, then. Sadly, both actresses are at their very worst here. Pike seems frightened and unsure of herself, while Berry is just irritating and a definite contender for 'worst Bond girl' award.The one thing that DIE ANOTHER DAY has over its predecessors is the villains. Two of them to be exact. Succeeding where Robert Carlyle failed in the last film (and who really remembers his scarred, bald villain?), Rick Yune plays an unstoppable bad guy in the same class as Oddjob and Jaws. His bald, blue-eyed, diamond-scarred Asian is a superior villain, a powerhouse of brimming muscle and sheer evil and one of the best bad guys we've had for a long time. Hooray then that Bond has some exciting battles with this undefeatable foe, including an incredibly tense fight in a hospital and a fantastic car chase later on in the movie. Toby Stephens is the lead villain Gustav Graves, younger and more athletic than the likes of Curt Jurgens and Donald Pleasence. He gives the best performance in the movie, and with his smug smirking and unlikable face he more than succeeds at creating a villain you love to hate. Watch out for that classic fencing scene he has with Brosnan, the best scene of the film.Bond films are primarily about the outlandish action and stunts more than anything else and here it succeeds. Fun is had with a laser satellite capable of protecting the rays of the sun down to a specific point on Earth. There are surfing spies, violent punch-ups between villains, lasers, face-swapping technology and more firepower than is decent for one movie. The car chase in the melting ice palace is original and the special effects used to create the illusion are passable. As is the final ruckus on board a damaged aeroplane that provides a setting for the fraught and hectic (although a little too conventional) climax. The only negative side is some majorly dodgy CGI work (including a CGI Bond surfing a CGI wave – not too realistic then) that takes the viewer out of things amid the sheer destruction, violence and excitement.

Filipe Neto Directed by Lee Tamahori and produced by Barbara Broccoli and Michael G. Wilson, has script Robert Wade and is the twentieth film in the franchise. In this film, Pierce Brosnan plays 007 for the last time, next to Halle Berry, in the role of Jinkx, Rosamund Pike, in the role of Miranda Frost, Rick Yune, in the role of Zao, John Cleese, in the role of Q and Toby Stephens, in the role of Gustav Graves.In this film, James Bond returns to active after being captured and tortured in North Korea, where he remained abandoned by the country he served. He will try to pursue those responsible for his arrest, in particular the traitor who he suspects exist within MI6's ranks. For this, he will have to investigate a network of smuggling of blood diamonds and an eccentric millionaire who has a reputation for never sleeping.This is undoubtedly the worst film of Bond franchise, to date. If there is any Bond movie where everything went wrong, is this. Pierce Brosnan, who in this film says goodbye to 007, was never convincing as James Bond. He tried, did his best and that's positive, but he never truly fit in the role. And if his previous films had been saved by the excellent quality of the villains and other stuff like that, it doesn't happen in this movie. Toby Stephens works well as Graves, but his character proved to be an unlikely villain. The public simply don't believe in his character or the history around it. Rosamund Pike is a terrible choice for a Bond-girl, as her character tried to be, at some point. She is the antithesis of any bond-girl, but the script was able to make up for it in the end, when Miranda showed not be as friendly as she (ever) seemed. Finally, we have the worst participation of all: Hale Brest... ops, Berry! This actress simply has no talent. She has big breasts, only that. And if that is enough to be a good bond- girl, the world is lost. The script is another problem: despite giving focus to strong and relevant subjects such weapons and diamonds trafficking or the constant military tension in North Korea, the way the film deals with it is simply unacceptable, unlikely and far-fetched. We could accept that in the early films of the franchise, but now the public expects more and that was simply forgotten. Last but not least, the film continues to suffer from continuity errors, paradoxes and faults unworthy of cinema professionals, in addition to the massive advertising sponsors, showed in all sequences and almost every scene. Bond is a action character or a pretty face to sell things?! The opening theme of this film, sung by Madonna, was very trendy to be precisely Madonna's. But even that could have been better and more interesting.

tomasg-69814 Strange Pierce Brosnan finale this was. A 140 m $ show that was meant to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the James Bond legacy, but failed in my opinion. Yes, it's a 007 movie all right, but runs with an unnecessary roaring V8 muscle engine. A solid, faithful 4-cylinder was all that was needed. Makes an attempt to run on champagne, when it could have been in a reclined way, with a nice cold beer instead. Nice opening scene and some fun flashbacks is not enough for this kind of event.The makers fools away the good 007 spirit with too much "make-up" and flashy, garish scenes in such speed that a good seat belt was needed when you entered the cinema chair at your local theater in 2002.The use of flashbacks to the old movies is way too obvious and silly. Diamonds and lasers was already expended stuff, and the cast of Halle Berry was strange to me even back then. A good actress that wasn't really Bond stuff to me. Acted tough and cocky in a most annoying way, just getting along to the end. (Dr. No bikini scene rip-off is spoofed many times since.) Musician lady Madonna's cameo part is just there to fill up her ego. Of course, she had to spoil the good theme song tradition too, by performing a "modern" hard core dance track that isn't Bond material at all. (The worst 007 track that was, since Duran Duran's 1985 "A View To A Kill.) Why couldn't Robbie Williams been asked at the time, to do a soft tune instead?The cast is, by the way, quite good anyway. I think Rosamund Pike is one of the best villain girls in the Bond history, an elegant beauty with the ordinary lethal skills. A woman to be close to, rather than the opposite. Head villain Toby Stephens does it good too, but lacks of some aura to make a full-filled 007 evil enemy.And the running time of 133 minutes is way too much. Some action scenes could have been cut in half - instead of hitting the brakes unnecessary - for a better flow. (The Icelandic chase scene which ends up quite silly is one example.)So, do I think this 007 flick is the most bad of them all? Some days, yes....but none of the Bond movies is an absolutely disaster. Brosnan was not sacked because of this, he was just running out of James Bond fuel, and got the leave message by rumors, I've read. (Not directly from the office of Michael G. Wilson and Barbara Broccoli.)It just was time for a change in the James Bond calendar. The basic stories of one Ian Fleming was ended long time since, and the responsible crew was to think things over. What to do for pushing the 007 legacy forward, once again?Former Bond actors Sean Connery and Roger Moore was questioned about their opinion, where to go with the MI6 agent. Connery said that he cared quite deeply about the whole Bond package, and what things that would happen to a thing that he was part of creating in the beginning. Moore was more of easy going - as always - and was hankering for a villain part in a James Bond movie. (Why did they not listen to the man? Make it happen before he's gone; he deserves it better than any other former Bond actor, coming back three times when he was already condemned, because of his respected and sometimes criticized age, last appearance 57 years old.)Timothy Dalton was professionally modest, and proclaimed that the Bond machine was to run for several ages to come, surely. I think he was the most "awake" Bond actor of them all.One-timer George Lazenby (1969) seemed not to care that much, once spoiling his chances as an immortal Bond actor because of bad decisions, and some wrong advisers at the time. Once the Brosnan era was over, plans for a continuation began to take shape... The Bond fans of the world was held on the gridiron for four long years.