Die Another Day

what the fuck was going on here then? the starting tone was pretty good but then it just went weird again. lovely rosamund pike made an appearance though. lovely. read more

the worst (if not in the bottom two) of the james bond films. brosnan is great as bond but this movie has plenty wrong with it. 1. cgi (and really bad cgi at that). a bond film is all about cool practical stunts. here you get shit cgi. 2. dumb gadgets ergo an invisible car. 3. halle berry as jinx. 4. the end sequence that basically feels like a rip off of the climax to return of the jedi. this has to be the most disappointing bond film ever... 55/100 ***on a side note. the way i score my movies ended up giving this one 55%. it feels high but i really couldn't do any better, the film does have... read more

the franchise challenge - james bond  die another day:  this actually started out well with bond getting captured in north korea, to be then tortured for some time and to then realising hed been sold out by someone. i thought a revenge thriller was on the cards. then he went cuba and met jinx with them then sharing some of the worst dialogue yet in a bond film. it gradually starts to descend from silly to stupid to awful as he ends up in iceland surfing an avalanche of ice to safety, and it didnt even look good. however i did like the sword fight scene and the fractious relationship between... read more