To its credit, “Die Another Day” starts out reasonably well, even the much maligned title song actually isn’t terrible. Then it gets worse, and worse, and worse. You know, there’s ridiculousness that’s enjoyable, like in “GoldenEye”, then there’s “Die Another Day”, a movie so caught up in its complete silliness it forgets to realize it, thinking its overzealous use of gadgetry, its hilariously bad Robo-villain (cut me some slack, I couldn’t think of a better nickname), and Halle Berry. Miss Berry is easily among the very worst Bond girls, and the fact that she’s alongside Rosamund Pike, who manages to do such a good job with what little she’s given, doesn’t really help at all.In “Die Another Day”, there’s not a second of humor that works. All the one-liners will have you cringing, albeit less than any attempt at actual serious dialogue this pathetic mess makes, as the script is completely ludicrous from start to finish, which is a continuation of the ‘good writers writing terribly’ theme in Bond history, where genuinely good writers write horrible messes like this, mainly because it seems they’re lazy. I do find it humorous that the biggest fans of “Casino Royale” who claim it is by far the best Bond film conveniently ignore the fact that it was written by the same writing crew (with the addition of script-polisher Paul Haggis) which gave us the last three installments of the Bond franchise. Writers do what they’re asked to do, and my guess is that “Die Another Day” is as much the producers’ fault as the writers’.Lee Tamahori is a completely bizarre choice for director, and a terrible one at that, seeing how he has never made an especially good film. David Arnold’s score is again very good but he can’t save the film and though I really like Brosnan’s Bond the direction the series was going in at this point was truly dangerous and could’ve resulted in the end for Bond if allowed to go on. There was no reason to stop- “Die Another Day” was a massive financial success, the highest grossing of Brosnan’s films and actually about as well-reviewed by major critics as the last two films in the series, but audience feedback and hopefully common sense led to the reinvigoration of the franchise in “Casino Royale”. Thank heavens for that.3/10

Die Another Dayis a 2002 spy film and the twentieth film in theJames Bondseries produced by Eon Productions. It was directed by Lee Tamahori, produced by Michael G. Wilson and Barbara Broccoli, and written by Neal Purvis and Robert Wade. The fourth and final film starring Pierce Brosnan as the fictional MI6 agent James Bond, it was also the only film to feature John Cleese as Q, and the last with Samantha Bond as Miss Moneypenny. It is also the first film since

• James Bond is sent to investigate the connection between a North Korean terrorist and a diamond mogul, who is funding the development of an international space weapon.
• Pierce Brosnan gives one last mission as James Bond 007. Starting off in North Korea, Bond is betrayed and captured. Fourteen months later, Bond is set free, but traded for Zao (Rick Yune) who was captured by MI6. When back in his world, Bond sets off to track down Zao. Bond gets caught up in yet another scheme which sends him to millionaire Gustav Graves (Toby Stephens). Another MI6 Agent known as Miranda Frost (Rosamund Pike) is also posing as a friend of Graves. Bond is invited to a presentation held by Graves about a satellite found in space which can project a huge laser beam. Bond must stop this madman with a fellow American Agent, known as Jinx Johnson (Halle Berry). While Bond tries to stop Graves and Zao, will he finally reveal who betrayed him?—simon
• When a secret mission goes wrong, British agent James Bond finds himself set up when he is captured and tortured in North Korea. A year later, after being traded for a terrorist, Bond is determined to hunt him down and find the one responsible for his betrayal. His trail leads him from Cuba to London to Iceland where he meets an American agent named Jinx, a frosty fellow agent named Miranda and the mysterious billionaire diamond smuggler Gustav Graves. Along the way, Bond uncovers a deadly secret that ties the billionaire to his Korean enemy, who owns a deadly weapon that could bring down the Western allies.—Blazer346
• The story begins in the demilitarized zone between North and South Korea with a spectacular high-speed hovercraft chase and continues via Hong Kong to Cuba and London where James Bond (Pierce Brosnan) meets up with the two ladies who are to play such important and differing roles in his quest to unmask a traitor and to prevent a war of catastrophic consequence. Hot on the trail of the principle villains, Bond travels to Iceland where he experiences at first hand the power of an amazing new weapon before a dramatic confrontation with his main adversary back in North Korea where it all started.—EON
• After being incarcerated and tortured while on a mission in North Korea, James Bond (Pierce Brosnan) is traded for a psychotic terrorist and released back to M16, only to be accused of giving information. Bond escapes and goes after Zao (Rick Yune), a deranged terrorist who knows who betrayed Bond to the North Koreans. Bond chases Zao around the globe and to a shady billionaire and a plot to change the world. But bond soon discovers that no one is who they seem to be.—redcommander27
• MI6 agent James Bond (Pierce Brosnan) infiltrates a North Korean military base (he hijacks a helicopter that was supposed to be delivering diamonds to the base, in exchange for weaponry. Bond had put explosives inside the diamond case before the helicopter landed) where Colonel Tan-Sun Moon (Will Yun Lee) is illegally trading weapons for African conflict diamonds (The UN has banned trade in these diamonds as they are being used to fund wars). After Moon’s right-hand man Zao (Rick Yune) sends Bond’s photo to an unknown source who reveals Bond’s true identity. Moon attempts to kill Bond (He blows up Bond’s helicopter, but Bond escapes by triggering the diamond case explosive at the right moment) and a hovercraft chase ensues, ending with Moon’s apparent death (The hovercraft goes over a waterfall with Moon on it). Bond survives but is captured by North Korean soldiers and imprisoned by the Colonel’s father, General Moon (Kenneth Tsang).After fourteen months of captivity and torture at the hands of the Korean People’s Army, Bond is traded for Zao in a prisoner exchange. even at the last moment, General Moon asks Bond about Col Moon’s ally in the west, but Bond says it was the same person who betrayed him. Bond is sedated and taken to meet M (Judi Dench), who informs him that his status as a 00 Agent has been suspended under suspicion of having leaked information under duress to the North Koreans (A top US agent in the North Korean high command had turned up dead during Bond’s captivity and a prison communication named Bond as the source, since MI6 suspected he had cracked). Bond is convinced that he has been set up by a double agent in the British government. After escaping MI6 custody (he lowers his pulse and simulates a heart attack), he discovers that Zao is in Hong Kong, where he learns from Chang (Ho Yi), a Chinese agent (chang wants revenge the death of his agents at the hands of Zao) and old colleague, that Zao is in Cuba. Q (John Cleese), MI6’s quartermaster and armorer. Miss Moneypenny (Samantha Bond), M’s secretary.In Havana, Bond meets Raoul (Emilio Echevarría), the manager of a Havana cigar factory, and a British sleeper. Raoul traces Zao to a clinic of Dr Alvarez (who specializes in gene therapy), on a small island next to the Cuban mainland. Bond also finds NSA agent Giacinta “Jinx” Johnson (Halle Berry) and they have sex after some casual flirting. Bond follows her to a gene therapy clinic, where patients can have their appearances altered through DNA restructuring. Bond locates Zao inside the clinic and attempts to kill him, but Zao escapes (actually Jinx kills Dr Alvarez and sets up a time bomb inside the clinic, which throws Bond off and allows Zao to escape) (Bond also learns that Jinx was CIA), leaving behind a pendant which leads Bond to a cache of diamonds, identified as conflict diamonds, but bearing the crest of the company owned by British billionaire businessman Gustav Graves (Toby Stephens). Bond learns that Graves only appeared a year prior, apparently discovering a vein of diamonds in Iceland leading to his current wealth, celebrity, and philanthropy from its assets.At Blades Club in London, Bond meets Graves along with his assistant Miranda Frost (Rosamund Pike), who is also an undercover MI6 agent (who won a gold medal at the Sydney Olympics for fencing). After a fencing battle (Verity (Madonna), a fencing instructor for Graves introduced them and Bond made a wager for a conflict diamond), Bond is invited by Graves to Iceland for a scientific demonstration. Shortly afterwards, M tells Bond of MI6’s doubts about Graves, restores Bond’s Double-0 status (when Bond tells her that Graves Iceland operations are a front for laundering African conflict diamonds) and offers assistance in the investigation. M calls Frost and tells her that she is sending in Bond despite Frost’s objections as in 3 months Frost has come up with nothing on Graves.At his ice palace adjacent to the diamond mine site in Iceland (Jinx also turns up for the demonstration), Graves unveils a new orbital mirror satellite, “Icarus”, which is able to focus solar energy on a small area and provide year-round sunshine for crop development. Zoa arrives in secret and Graves is revealed to be Col Moon, post gene replacement therapy. Frost seduces Bond (actually she is distracting Bond while Jinx is captured) and Jinx infiltrates Graves’ command center, but is captured by Graves and Zao. Bond rescues her and discovers that Graves is in fact Colonel Moon, who has used the gene therapy technology to change his appearance and amassed his fortune from sale of the conflict diamonds as a cover for his true plans. Bond sends Jinx to warn frost..Bond confronts Graves, but Frost arrives to reveal herself as the traitor who betrayed Bond in North Korea (Frost and Moon studied together at Harvard and became good friends while fencing), forcing Bond to escape from Graves’ facility. Bond returns in his Aston Martin V12 Vanquish to rescue Jinx, who has been recaptured by Frost in the palace. As Graves uses Icarus to melt the ice palace, Zao pursues Bond into the palace using his Jaguar XKR. Bond kills Zao by causing a giant ice chandelier to fall onto him, and revives Jinx after she has almost drowned (by putting her in a hot spring that he had seen earlier inside Graves’s palace). Bond and Jinx pursue Graves and Frost to the Korean peninsula (They are briefed that General Moon has been deposed in a coup by the hardliners. 80K troops are amassing north of the border with a Million in reserve. Icarus will clear the minefield and enable the invasion of South Korea) and stow away on Graves’ cargo plane (Before it takes off from the Pyonyang airbase towards the DMZ). Graves reveals his identity to his father, and the true purpose of the Icarus satellite: to cut a path through the Korean Demilitarized Zone with concentrated sunlight, allowing North Korean troops to invade South Korea, defeat the United Nations Command forces of both U.S. and South Korean troops, and unite the peninsula under the flag of the DPRK. Horrified that it would potentially trigger World War III with the United States, General Moon tries to stop the plan, but Graves murders him.Bond attempts to shoot Graves, but he is prev