Die Another Day
Released: 2002
Version: Film
Length: Approx. 132 minutes
Rated: PG-13
Main Cast: Pierce Brosnan, Halle Berry, Toby Stephens, John Cleese, Rick Yune, Madonna, Lawrence Makoare
SPOILER WARNING: As usual, don't read the review unless you are do not care about ruining the plot for yourself.
If you are looking for a good spy movie, then this will probably do ya. However, it's not a very good one.
We begin with Bond (Pierce Brosnan) pretending to be someone he isn't as he delivers some diamonds to some Koreans. While doing so, he gets discovered and has to blow up a lot of stuff to try to escape as will as assassinate the Korean bad guy leader. He does manage to kill the guy (or so we're led to believe). Unfortunately, Bond also gets captured.
And so we are treated to Bond being tortured. Not only is that not so nice, but we (the audience) must be tortured by Madonna's song, "Die Another Day" as chicks in no clothes dance around. It is rather psychedelic to see this weird multi-colored babes of fire and ice dance around Bond as he is tortured. Is he seeing them too?
Well that's how it opens. The rest of the story is pretty much as you'd expect if you follow Bond. Bond gets out due to a prisoner-of-war trade and he goes off trying to find out how his cover was blown. Eventually, they latch on to someone named Gustav Graves (Rick Yune).
Bond does a duel with him and then heads off to his ice kingdom in some very cold location. Before going there, he gets a car that's loaded with lots of cool gizmos that he actually uses in this movie. (In the last movie, the only thing the car was used for was for decoration...right before it was destroyed.)
But I'm getting ahead of myself. I need to make mention of Bond going to an island and ogling a bikini-clad chick named Jinx (Halle Berry). He meets her and they spout sexual innuendo at each other. This works well for Bond and they are soon enjoying each other's company in bed. You would think that girls would be turned off by sexual prattle, but Jinx isn't a good girl by any stretch.
Okay, that's out of the way. Back to the ice. Here Bond meets Jinx again and they spout more garbage at each other to annoy another pretty girl, Miranda Frost (Rosamund Pike), Grave's assistant whom we met when Bond dueled Graves. She acts "frostily" towards Bond, but then all of a sudden she wants to be his bed-warmer too. And Bond can't deny the ladies...
On with the story! Bond finds out who Graves really is and ends up getting caught. Then he escapes and we have a nice car chase scene with two very cool cars! Bond has to come back to free his girl, Jinx though...
By the end of the movie, Jinx is free, the baddies are defeated and Bond and Jinx are once again on an island. (DUH!) But before we get to that...
The Good Stuff:
 | Lots of cool gadgets |
| The neat cars... |
| Some sweet weapons. |
The Bad Stuff:
| All that sexual garbage | ||||
| The last two scenes in the movie
should have been cut out of the film:
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| There's lots of swearing... | ||||
| And then there's all the violence |
I like Bond, but I think the Brosnan games go too far with all the innuendo stuff. For an action movie, it was pretty neat. If that's what you're looking for, then you shouldn't be disappointed.
STORY: 
VIOLENCE:
(Lots of death...and that torture at the beginning.)
SEXUAL CONTENT:
(Jinx...Bond...Frost...)
SFX:
LANGUAGE:
OVERALL SCORE:
(Due to the violent and perverted nature of the movie, the score has been
lowered dramatically)
