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.
Die Another Day is a good film... until London Calling by the Clash kicks in, then it's all downhill from there. That's not to say there weren't signs before that point, there was the bizarre decision to have a CGI bullet fly into the gunbarrel, there was that awful Madonna song and there Jinx makes her first appearance but generally there's some solid stuff there. There's a somewhat gripping pre-title sequence, there's a pretty good action sequence in Cuba and I kind of like where Bond's character is at the start of the film. From London Calling however, the film becomes an absurd paradoy of a Bond film. The dialogue is crammed with incredibly lame and forced jokes, there locations surpass glamorous and become the stuff of fairytales, the gadgets are more science fiction than spy thriller (an invisible car? Really?) and the characters are wafer thin mimics of characters. There is the odd redeeming element now and then such as the sword fight, which is still choreographed pretty wel
This is one of the worst Bond movies in my book. It actually has one of the best title sequences with Bond getting tortured which leads one to think this is gonna be a great gritty broken Bond, but no. We have to wait for Skyfall to get that. Some stray observations: Michael Madsen as a CIA Director… Really that is some bad casting. Steroids in fencing? After Denise Richards, Halle Berry is a close seconds to being the worst bond girl ever. The whole plot with people changing appearance with the help of ”gene therapy" might be one of the dumbest things in a James Bond movie yet. Almost as bad a CGI surfingsequence as in Escape from LA. An invisible car… Seriously. This is too dumb Sex in a temple?
