Die Another Day (2002) is the twentieth spy film in the James Bond series, and the fourth and last film to star Pierce Brosnan as the fictional MI6 agent James Bond; it is also the last Bond film of the original timeline with the series being rebooted with Casino Royale. In the pre-title sequence, Bond leads a mission to North Korea, during which he is found out and, after seemingly killing a rogue North Korean colonel, he is captured and imprisoned. More than a year later, Bond is released as part of a prisoner exchange, and, surmising that someone within the British government betrayed him, he follows a trail of clues in an effort to earn redemption by finding his betrayer and killing a North Korean agent he considers central to his torture.

Die Another Day, produced by Michael G. Wilson and Barbara Broccoli, and directed by Lee Tamahori, marks the franchise's 40th anniversary. The series began in 1962 with Sean Connery starring as Bond in Dr. No. Die Another Day includes references to each of the preceding films and also alludes to several Bond novels.

The 2002 film received mixed reviews—some critics praised Lee Tamahori's work on the film, while others claimed the plot was damaged by excessive use of CGI. Thus lauded by some and despite criticism, it was the highest-grossing James Bond film to that date.

as the world's foremost self-declared Bond expert, I have to say there are bits and pieces of great Bond (the country club fight, R's work) and Bond at its worse (ice palace, surfing, just about everything else).

I am the world's foremost self-declared Bond expert!!!

Why do you give it an A then?

No one in their right mind can say that the surfing escape later in the film was good...that was Moonraker level terribly-looking.

A

Best Movie of the Year. Watts deserves a Best Actress nod and the movie should win Best Art Direction, Best Visual Effects and Best Editing.

I can understand Bradley giving it an A or 5 out of 5 points or triple M's, whatever his fuckin' scale is. That's his bag, giving bad movies great grades.

But Mav, there's no way Die Another Die is an A. Even in the context of grading Bond films differently from other films, giving Die an A, means you'd have to give Thunderball or Goldfinger or whichever truly great Bond film you love, a what, Super Duper A+.

Two things between us differ. (more than two, but for this thread's purpose, it's two)

1) I don't put stock in movie trailers the way you do.

2) I don't judge movies based on one crappy effect.



Funny how you don't mind glossing over shitty effects, huh?

As long as the scene itself doesn't look ridiculous...Bond escaping through...uhh...surfing is ridiculous. Okay, the beginning sequence in Goldeneye with the plane is ridiculous as well, but at least it looked cool. Here...it doesn't.

You mean like the ridiculous looking stampede in King Kong, or the attack of the giant mosquitos that the men opened fire at without aiming, and didn't hit the guys the mosquitos were on? Not only did you gloss over that ridiculous stuff, but you even said it should win an Oscar, when giving your A grade and calling it the best film of the year, so you really shouldn't call out others for giving A's to far less ridiculous looking effects. Bad as the surfing scene was, it didn't compare to those Kong scenes on the ridiculous scale.