It is a performances centric movie

The performances transcend the film's tropes, grounding it in characters that feel more complete than this subgenre often produces.

Excellent and certainly provocative... If nothing else, the film is a real conversation starter.

There is, somehow, an interesting story here, as well as some good acting. There are also some good scenes

One can understand why this might be his least favorite James Bond film that Pierce Brosnan made. "Die Another Day" resembles more the hodgepodge of modern action films than it does the secret agent thrillers created by Ian Fleming. The hodgepodge being nearly constant action films devoid of any acting. While this entry in the 007 series has considerable plot, with complicated subplots, the nearly nonstop action has so few pauses that the film seems to be three or four stories pieced together. Besides the action scenes, this film has more of just about everything. That includes the gadgets and gimmicks. The dialog is rife with sexual innuendo. And, it's also the most graphic Bond film with vivid sex scenes. The filmmakers just put too much in this film that weighed it down. This is a classic example that more often is not better. This is also the first film in which a female character has a huge part of the action. Halle Berry's Jinx Johnson seems to have as much action time as does Brosnan's Bond. When the mole in MI6 is finally uncovered, it proves Bond right. Let's see if M doesn't follow his hunches and advice in the future. Most of the Bond films have as antagonists a global conspiracy or terrorist group. This is one of the few that also involves a foreign government hostile to the free Western world. Here, it's North Korea, where Bond is being tortured after being captured in the opening credits sequence. A couple of interesting notes about this film. A real Bond is in it - Samantha Bond is Moneypenny, and has played that part in all the Bond films that star Pierce Brosnan, beginning with Goldeneye in 1995. As with Brosnan, this was her last Bond film. And, John Cleese finally gets promoted to the post of Q. His banter with Bond in this film is the best of the exchanges between the two characters in more than 20 films.Unfortunately, the few good aspects of this film can't elevate it above a ho-hum action movie. The six stars are mostly for the tremendous sets, camerawork and varied shooting locations.

Madonna! It was Madonna "singing" the atrocious title song? Good Grief! Truly, it was one of THE very worst songs I have ever heard in my several decades. Next to impossible to understand for starters, and a forgettable "tune". Ugghhh!! The opening action scenes were a joke. Apparently Brosnan can hit anything and everything he points a weapon at, without aiming... while his adversaries fire dozens of rounds and always miss him. Yeah, right. You know from the start that any semblance to reality has gone: you're watching a cartoon movie. OK, fair enough, the producers are being honest with you. Things have sure dropped down to a sad level since the first Bond flicks with their clever and nuanced plots, witty lines, entertaining action scenes (without computer-generated overkill). Brosnan is barely passable as Bond, barely, comes across quite wooden, stilted. I've given this movie a 4. It's not a total waste, but way, way, way below average. A shame.

Directed by Lee Tamahori and produced by Barbara Broccoli and Michael G. Wilson, has script Robert Wade and is the twentieth film in the franchise. In this film, Pierce Brosnan plays 007 for the last time, next to Halle Berry, in the role of Jinkx, Rosamund Pike, in the role of Miranda Frost, Rick Yune, in the role of Zao, John Cleese, in the role of Q and Toby Stephens, in the role of Gustav Graves.In this film, James Bond returns to active after being captured and tortured in North Korea, where he remained abandoned by the country he served. He will try to pursue those responsible for his arrest, in particular the traitor who he suspects exist within MI6's ranks. For this, he will have to investigate a network of smuggling of blood diamonds and an eccentric millionaire who has a reputation for never sleeping.This is undoubtedly the worst film of Bond franchise, to date. If there is any Bond movie where everything went wrong, is this. Pierce Brosnan, who in this film says goodbye to 007, was never convincing as James Bond. He tried, did his best and that's positive, but he never truly fit in the role. And if his previous films had been saved by the excellent quality of the villains and other stuff like that, it doesn't happen in this movie. Toby Stephens works well as Graves, but his character proved to be an unlikely villain. The public simply don't believe in his character or the history around it. Rosamund Pike is a terrible choice for a Bond-girl, as her character tried to be, at some point. She is the antithesis of any bond-girl, but the script was able to make up for it in the end, when Miranda showed not be as friendly as she (ever) seemed. Finally, we have the worst participation of all: Hale Brest... ops, Berry! This actress simply has no talent. She has big breasts, only that. And if that is enough to be a good bond- girl, the world is lost. The script is another problem: despite giving focus to strong and relevant subjects such weapons and diamonds trafficking or the constant military tension in North Korea, the way the film deals with it is simply unacceptable, unlikely and far-fetched. We could accept that in the early films of the franchise, but now the public expects more and that was simply forgotten. Last but not least, the film continues to suffer from continuity errors, paradoxes and faults unworthy of cinema professionals, in addition to the massive advertising sponsors, showed in all sequences and almost every scene. Bond is a action character or a pretty face to sell things?! The opening theme of this film, sung by Madonna, was very trendy to be precisely Madonna's. But even that could have been better and more interesting.

This Bond flick is known as what Joel Schumacher is to "Batman & Robin". I really don't think this is that bad of a movie. But maybe I am going easy on it since it's not as bad as "Batman & Robin". As a matter of fact the first half of this movie is a okay Bond film with action combined with a passable story. Than it completely falls apart during the second half when it shows the ice palace and the orbiting satellite. Minus the Twisted Metal style battle scene. It just become too much after that, I think it might have been alright if this movie came out in the 70's or 80's. And I think that is one of the main reason why this movie got so much hate. The super campy, cheesy and ridiculous aspects of this installment just didn't fly so well in the 2000's. Halle Berry was like at her peak of stardom when this movie came out and it probably also did a lot of damage to her career as well. Or the "Catwoman" movie that came right after, but then again Halle just kept making poor decision after getting some credit for "Monster's Ball". She starts off like she is going to be a standout Bond girl, but that quickly fades when you just can't buy her as this tough badass. Mainly because of how she carries on with the action sequences, by the way she runs and holds her weapons. But yeah, the second half just because absurd and silly to the point I couldn't take the situation serious at all. It's kind of sad to see Pierce Brosnan make his final outing as Bond with this film. I do think he played a big part in making Bond relevant again. He just has the look, the charm and charisma to play Bond. Overall, I give this movie a 5/10 because the first half started out quite well.5/10