Die Another Day

Pros: Pierce Brosnan. Halle Barry. Roasmund Pike. It's a Bond movie.
Cons: Predictable at times. Silly and unrealistic in places.

I’ve liked James Bond movies for several years. The movies aren’t extremely complicated, original, or serious, but they are very entertaining. I’ve enjoyed all the Bond movies that I have seen. I really like Pierce Brosnan as Bond. ...

Pros: Halle Berry, Brosnan, and Miranda Pike. Great for the first half-hour.
Cons: The laws of physics get constantly crushed.

...Then this film sucks up to that ideal. Don't get me wrong, I happen to really enjoy the Bond films, and am pleased as could be to be watching Pierce Brosnan keeping the franchise going on into a new millennium. But with this one, I couldn't help but ...

Pros: great story, good acting, tons of action, some humor
Cons: ??????

Yesterday afternoon at 1 pm can you guess where I was? Yep, the girl who loved lip gloss was sitting in a movie theater waiting the first showing, opening day of the new James Bond flick Die Another Day. My husband took the day off (okay, so he...

Pros: Halle Berry and Rosamund Pike.
Cons: Sloppy editing and directing in parts.

Preamble
In my 36 years of life - until today - I have never seen a James Bond flik. This, of course, shocked and amazed my friends along with probably every epinions movie writer. Because you never know what the next day will bring,...

Pros: grand action, nice locations, Brosnan still has charm
Cons: runs out of steam in the third act, Berry is transparent

Laden with homage to the past nineteen films this XXXed James Bond adventure is hyperbolically grandiose and a chic exercise in the passé spy ritual. The extravagance of this Bond teems and tears itself in two over out-performing its...

Pros: Some classic bond action
Cons: verisimilitude? what verisimilitude?

I grew up watching Bond films, and have seen them all. When Pierce Brosnan took over the role of 007 in Goldeneye, I was impressed. The following films were less impressive and last night I had the misfortune of attending a showing of Die Another...

Pros: Just another bond film with some great action bits
Cons: A depressing reliance on CGI effects over the practical stunts the series is famous for!

Oh, now do pay attention 007! Bond is captured during a rather invigorating pre-credit sequence, and held captive by North Korea for fourteen months. One day, his various tortures are interrupted and Bond is released in a prisoner exchange. Obsessed ...

Pros: Enough blowing up stuff to keep you interested.
Cons: Is it just me, or are these movies getting worse?

Since I'd been seeing ad for this movie since last year, I figured after all that, maybe MGM actually put enough time into this movie to make it seem a bit more realistic and entertaining than the last Bond affair.

But, the opening sequence of...

Pros: Halle Berry has some spunk and looks great in a bikini.
Cons: Pierce Brosnan finds nothing new to do with the Bond character.

Sadie Mae Glutz's glamor photos amongst all the Barbie heads are absolutely stunning. I just know they'll get me into the Vanity Fair line-up for their Women in Hollywood issue this year. Somehow, Madame Rose, my publicist, keeps dropping the...

Pros: an invisible car, lots of action scenes with explosions and fighting
Cons: what is this movie really about? I'm confused. Focus jumps around way too much

Die Another Day (who comes up with these titles: The World is Not Enough, Tomorrow Never Dies?!!!) is the fourth Pierce Brosnan Bond movie and the 20th Bond movie, that is if you don't count Casino Royale. Given that it's the 40th anniversary of the...

Pros: The car is back!
Cons: Tad confusing.

Die yet Another Day begins the twentieth installment in the James Bond saga. A ...

Pros: Rosamunde Pike and Halle Berry
Cons: Everything else

Die Another Day was meant to be a celebration of all things Bond – what with this film being the twentieth in the official series and its release year, 2002, being the 40th anniversary of the franchise. Instead, it was a denigration of the ...

Pros: Great fun but...
Cons: Absolute tosh!

What do you get if you cross: senile child-hating DJ Jimmy Saville, Mr Blonde, Evita, Basil Fawlty and several queens of England? Bizarrely, the best Bond film since Goldeneye.

Having disliked The World is Not Enough quite...

Pros: All those gadgets, all that scenery
Cons: The DNA transplant sequence

The name is Bond. James Bond. The situation? A prison camp in North Korea. In the process of a spy maneuver gone bad, James Bond is betrayed and imprisoned for some time. His betrayer - whom we meet later in the movie, in the form of aptly-named Miranda...

Pros: Awesome chase sequences, John Cleese!
Cons: Bad plot, bad dialogue, bad acting, and slow parts

I thought I'd never say this but: what do you get when you mix the goofy one-liners of Austin Powers in Goldmember, the plot of xXx and espionage? Unfortunately, you get Die Another Day, the 20th James Bond movie that continues a trend of pretty much ...