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Die Another Day (2002)
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Reviews Counted:189
Fresh:112
Rotten:77
Average Rating:6.1/10
Consensus: Pure formula, but it has some nifty elements.
Rated: PG-13 [See Full Rating] for action violence and sexuality
Runtime: 2 hrs 12 mins
Genre: Action/Adventure
Theatrical Release:Nov 22, 2002 Wide
Box Office: $160,201,106
Synopsis: In DIE ANOTHER DAY, the 20th James Bond adventure, 007 (Pierce Brosnan) gets off to a rough start when he is captured and subsequently tortured during an assignment in North Korea. When the suave... In DIE ANOTHER DAY, the 20th James Bond adventure, 007 (Pierce Brosnan) gets off to a rough start when he is captured and subsequently tortured during an assignment in North Korea. When the suave secret agent is eventually liberated, he embarks on a dangerous mission to Cuba that involves tracking a terrorist named Zao (Rick Yune). There, 007 encounters Jinx (Halle Berry), a formidable and alluring fellow spy. Soon Bond is back in England following a mysterious trail that leads to Gustav Graves (Toby Stephens), a flamboyant diamond mogul. After a rather bloody introduction, Graves invites 007 to Iceland, where he plans to unveil his enigmatic Icarus project. Before long, Bond and Jinx are reunited and battling Graves, Zao, and other villains bent on world domination. With this Bond installment, directed by Lee Tamahori, 007 catches up with the 21st century, and the results are grittier and more explosive than ever before. Although it begins as one of the darkest and most violent Bond films, the intense mood of DIE ANOTHER DAY is counterbalanced by typically clever and funny moments. Brosnan is in fine form as the iconic hero, while Berry shines as the immediately likeable Jinx. Stephens and Yune make excellent bad guys, and the rest of the cast--including Judi Dench, John Cleese, Rosamund Pike, and Michael Madsen--provide key supporting roles. With its hi-tech gadgets and special-effects-laden set pieces, DIE ANOTHER DAY clearly has its eye on the future, but in numerous scenes it also lovingly embraces the past, placing the film in the upper tier of Bond movies. [More]
Starring: Pierce Brosnan, Halle Berry, Toby Stephens, Rosamund Pike
Starring: Pierce Brosnan, Halle Berry, Toby Stephens, Rosamund Pike, Rick Yune, Judi Dench, John Cleese, Michael Madsen, Will Yun Lee, Samantha Bond
Director: Lee Tamahori
Director: Lee Tamahori
Screenwriter: Neal Purvis, Robert Wade
Producer: Michael G. Wilson, Barbara Broccoli
Composer: David Arnold
Studio: MGM/UA
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Reviews for Die Another Day
There's much to love -- and more to puzzle over -- in this curiously science-fiction-style outing for 007.
Pierce Brosnan was born to play James Bond, but he’ll never make the role his own if an intelligent script doesn’t pass through his mail slot soon.
While the action and exotic locales are intact, the dialogue is unbearably bad. Some lines are so bad that when delivered, they're Schwarzenegger-ian.
If this outrageous espionage-podge didn't have the Bond label on it, you'd swear it was a Jean-Claude Van Damme flick.
A nice new step toward changing Bond back into his older, tougher incarnations in a way that the audience won’t revolt over.
Bond is keeping up with the times in everything but his story ideas, which seem as determined to keep cold-war anxieties alive as 007 is to get out of his latest scrape.
Surely it will not be giving things away to tell you there's absolutely nothing new about the latest episode.
In a movie that's distinguished by some higher heights than most recent Bonds, and some new lows, Die Another Day also sees Bond do battle with obviously artificial digitally created backgrounds and effects.
If I can't return to the past, I'll happily follow a Bond this reenergized into the future.
It's better than the last film, The World Is Not Enough, but it doesn't really recapture the old vim and vigor.
The first installment of the new millennium, maintains the franchise's standing as the ultimate cinematic guilty pleasure.
This movie has the usual impossible stunts ... But it has just as many scenes that are lean and tough enough to fit in any modern action movie.
With four films comfortably tucked under his tuxedo, Brosnan has established himself as the second best Bond next to Sean Connery. That’s hardly faint praise; it’s kind of like calling him the second best home run hitter next to Hank Aaron.
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