So this movie starts out decently. I enjoy the whole pre credits sequence pretty well. Then we get to Cuba and things are starting to get mediocre. Then Halle Berry shows up.

Guuuuuuuuhhhhh.

It isn't just that the lines she reads are terrible. I mean, they're ridiculous. But Pierce Brosnan is standing there saying just as dumb shit, and he at least makes it watchable. This is, flat out, the worst film in the 007 franchise. If I started pointing out specific problems, I'd end up writing a novel. Just remember, only watch this film in a group. Watching it alone will lead to major health problems.

The dialogue in "Die Another Day" is so ridiculous and stupid I expected to see Arnold Schwarzenegger make an appearance. Plus there's too much CGI and it's not convincing. Halle Berry makes a beautiful Bond girl but selling her as a secret agent...yeah right. The invisible car was a laugher even for Bond it's just too much. Of course I somehow can accept the satellite that can redirect sunlight as a weapon. This is almost "Moonraker" goofy.

Nope nope nope. Halle Berry ruined this for me. It wasn't entirely her fault, the role was poorly scripted, her lines were garbage and she didn't deliver them well at all. She wasn't given much to worth with though. And sadly there was zero chemistry between her and Bond, even the sex scenes were snooze worthy to be honest. The ending was absolutely absurd as well

Watching in 2020. Just find Bond to be annoying.

Now I remember this film being a decent addition to the 007 franchise and whilst that hasn't changed I feel like this movie came across as super cheesy.

The whole film was packed full of sneaky little innuendos and sex scenes. I wasn't able to focus on much of the actual developing storyline as I was overloaded with the cheese within this movie.

on the plus side though it did have decent acting and is a very easy movie to sit through

Pierce Brosnan's last ride on the 007 carousel circumnavigates the globe, with key scenes in North Korea, China, Cuba, London and Iceland. It's a whirlwind tour that's accented with garish, perplexing film techniques and complicated by too many subplots and side characters. The primary story, that of an insane face-swapping military man whose plans to reignite the Korean War involve ice castles, blood diamonds and an orbiting solar laser beam, would be confusing enough without the added distractions.

_Die Another Day_'s supporting cast is weak - Halle Berry is especially hammy in a co-starring role as this month's femme flavor - and the special effects are completely inept. Embarrassingly bad, in fact, in most of the important action scenes. Compounding matters, the fresh release of a contemporary spy/action franchise (_The Bourne Identity_ opened six months prior) makes poor Mr. Bond look absolutely ancient by comparison. How quickly Eon wasted the fresh potential of _Goldeneye_ and fell into the same traps that made the character seem like such a staid relic in previous incarnations. Time to tear it all down again and start from scratch, I guess.

One of the worst films of the Bond series, Die Another Day delivers an over-the-top, madcap adventure that ended the Brosnan era. The story is garbage, full of space lasers, ice castles, invisible cars, and a bunch of other idiotic nonsense. Halle Berry is completely miscast and delivers a terrible performance; she may in fact be the worst Bond girl of the entire franchise. Some of the action is fun, but most of it is mindless, noisy, and incoherent. Die Another Day is a campy mess of a film that's whole unsuited for the Brosnan Bond style.

I got excited seeing Rosamund Pike and Michael Madsen were in this. Too bad they are wasted and the movie is bad. The CGI looks real bad too.

IMO the worst of the Brosnan Bond movies.

You could not go wrong with that movie. Shot back in the times, when James Bond was an actual thing, not some blonde product-placement-commercial.

last Bond of the Brosnan era, I still like it. That tribute to other movies when he goes to see Q, that Halle Berry, that armed car fight, "a mojito"

Oh lord. Oh my freaking lord, this was awful. Everything from the plot to the main villain's dorky as hell super suit. I was hoping to even give the CGI some leeway remembering that it's a early 00's film but... yeah there are some effects here that are just terrible, including some really pointless camera effects and super random slow-mo showcasing some effects at their worst. Add in some really jarring jump cuts and you have a visual nightmare. Sigmund Freud.

The James Bond Films
1 Eon films
1.1 Dr. No (1962) https://trakt.tv/movies/dr-no-1962
1.2 From Russia with Love (1963) https://trakt.tv/movies/from-russia-with-love-1963
1.3 Goldfinger (1964) https://trakt.tv/movies/goldfinger-1964
1.4 Thunderball (1965) https://trakt.tv/movies/thunderball-1965
1.5 You Only Live Twice (1967) https://trakt.tv/movies/you-only-live-twice-1967
1.6 On Her Majesty's Secret Service (1969) https://trakt.tv/movies/on-her-majesty-s-secret-service-1969
1.7 Diamonds Are Forever (1971) https://trakt.tv/movies/diamonds-are-forever-1971
1.8 Live and Let Die (1973) https://trakt.tv/movies/live-and-let-die-1973
1.9 The Man with the Golden Gun (1974) https://trakt.tv/movies/the-man-with-the-golden-gun-1974
1.10 The Spy Who Loved Me (1977) https://trakt.tv/movies/the-spy-who-loved-me-1977
1.11 Moonraker (1979) https://trakt.tv/movies/moonraker-1979
1.12 For Your Eyes Only (1981) https://trakt.tv/movies/for-your-eyes-only-1981
1.13 Octopussy (1983) https://trakt.tv/movies/octopussy-1983
1.14 A View to a Kill (1985) https://trakt.tv/movies/a-view-to-a-kill-1985
1.15 The Living Daylights (1987) https://trakt.tv/movies/the-living-daylights-1987
1.16 Licence to Kill (1989) https://trakt.tv/movies/licence-to-kill-1989
1.17 GoldenEye (1995) https://trakt.tv/movies/goldeneye-1995
1.18 Tomorrow Never Dies (1997) https://trakt.tv/movies/tomorrow-never-dies-1997
1.19 The World Is Not Enough (1999) https://trakt.tv/movies/the-world-is-not-enough-1999
1.20 Die Another Day (2002) https://trakt.tv/movies/die-another-day-2002
1.21 Casino Royale (2006) https://trakt.tv/movies/casino-royale-2006
1.22 Quantum of Solace (2008) https://trakt.tv/movies/quantum-of-solace-2008
1.23 Skyfall (2012) https://trakt.tv/movies/skyfall-2012
1.24 Spectre (2015) https://trakt.tv/movies/spectre-2015
1.25 No Time to Die (2021) https://trakt.tv/movies/no-time-to-die-2021

2 Non-Eon films
2.1 Casino Royale (1967) https://trakt.tv/movies/casino-royale-1967
2.2 Never Say Never Again (1983) https://trakt.tv/movies/never-say-never-again-1983

Plus
- Halle Berry's entrance
- The torture

Minus
- The parasailing CG fest
- Slowing his heart down
- The character of Jinx
- CG almost everywhere. And it's crap.
- The vanishing car is one step too far
- Lasers
- Toby Stephens
- That silly ice car fight
- The US agency
- The whole gadget electricity suit
- Madonna, for her horrendous cameo and the bloody unforgiveable song.

Just a piss-poor entry into the canon at a time when they should have known better.

That they managed to reboot the franchise after this absolute stinker is a miracle.

Brosnan deserved better than the run he got.

The producers should be ashamed of themselves for this film. Christ knows what they were thinking!


5/10