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Should NEVER have existed. Without this scene, it could have been one of the best "modern" 007 movies. Not included those with Sean Connery, of course. Screenplay here is good. Finally! Pierce Brosnan and Halle Berry are okay. Toby Stephens is excellent. Michael Madsen (agreed his role was so short) and Rosamund Pike's (agreed her role is too long) level of acting is near zero in this 'Die Another Day' movie.
Cecil Eugene Moore II
01/26/2017In my opinion,007 has very many pieces and lots of sequels to its collection. I became a fan and viewer right in this chapter. As a growing child I I only knew of the video game on Nintendo 64. I played it with the nephews of my widowed mother's boyfriend at the time and always I enjoyed it. So I decided to watch the movie.After that exciting hour or so, I was thrilled enough to continue looking the sequels. I still to this day enjoy a good 007 flick. Sean Connery does a brilliant job in this role and brings a very soothing feel to the character 007. I feel he has a very delightful approach. He satisfies many of us watching him take on some of the most mysterious guys around town up to no good. A+Always accompanied by a well-equipped ally, Sean Connery, joined by the beautiful Halle Berry became even more interesting being that he had such a gorgeous apprentice. I often wonder what it would be like to be apart of the team. It always seemed like fun as I observed the interesting story line. The writer leaves so many possibilities for additional character injections. Very exciting.I rated this movie 10 stars because it has a very wonderful concept. It allows room for growth yet it also could be ended for good. Very mysterious. It makes the audience really pay attention. Even in the newer films of 007, the soundtracks are enough to bring an old audience back into the story-line if they ever were to be directed elsewhere for whatever reason. Adele made me come back with her phenomenal voice. I could not get used to the new 007, Daniel Craig. He is also a wonderful actor. However, this took some time. All in all, Great movie! 10 Stars!!!!With Kindest Regards,Inspiring Creative Entertainment Cecil Moore Founder/Performing Artist 1-877-933-7771 Ext:800 InspiringCreativeEntertainment@outlook.com
unbrokenmetal
Watching this movie again after several years made me realize it is better than I remembered it. From the action-packed beginning in a Korean war zone to the beach in Cuba, and from the spectacular ice building to the fights on a plane, there is a lot going on and it never becomes boring. The best fencing sequence in a Bond ever needs to be mentioned, too. There are several enjoyable references to the old Bond days, for example Halle Berry's costume refers to Ursula Andress in 'Dr No', and when Bond talks about ornithology, he casually picks up the book on the subject by a certain Mr Bond who inspired Ian Fleming for his hero's name, as many of you will know. So far, so good.What really spoilt 'Die Another Day' for me is that we don't get convincing gadgets like in the Connery days anymore, but fantasy inventions nobody did believe in (from the invisible car to the, um, cutting edge satellite) and obvious computer effects (the ride on the wave). The second and last time that John Cleese appeared in the series, it must have been too embarrassing to present this mumbo-jumbo. The credibility of the series was damaged, and I thought for the first time that the time had come to let Her Majesty's agent retire. Unfortunately, there was too much money at stake to do that.
Owen Ogletree
I have to admit, I have a soft spot for this film because this is the first James Bond movie I ever saw. However, looking at it objectively, I'll have to admit that it is one of the weaker Bond films out there.Pierce Brosnan is as good as ever in his final outing. He supposedly quit after this one because he didn't want to become the next Roger Moore. Halle Berry's Jinx was attractive, but the character is badly written with a lot of her lines being genuinely cringe-worthy. Rosemund Pike's Miranda Frost isn't that great, either.Gustav Graves, played by Toby Stevens, is a pretty lame villain. He's rather uninteresting and is not at all menacing. Zao, his partner, isn't much better.People, of course, have criticized the story and action-scenes as stretching the limits of plausibility. I'm gonna have to agree with them. There is such a thing as too ridiculous even for Bond, and this movie crosses that line.The opening hovercraft chase is spectacular, but the subsequent action scenes are far too cartoonish for my taste. The CGI effects also don't hold up that well, as shown in many scenes such as the stupid surfing scene.However, I really appreciate the references to previous Bond films. They did this because it was the franchise's 40th anniversary.The film has a few good parts, but it can't make up for the extremely silly and bloated nature of the film as a whole. It's one of the franchise's worst, but I still rank it ahead of "The Man With The Golden Gun." Too bad they would take the fun out of the franchise in the next couple of films.RATING: C
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