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Advantages: Halle Berry Disadvantages: Franchise needs to be shaken up, not stirred around
Since Daniel Craig reinvented the James Bond character, the Bond series seems to be on the up what with the success of 'Casino Royale'. Of course the film prior to this latest edition of Bond, was the 2002 release of Die AnotherDay, the last of the films to feature Pierce Brosnan as the infamous womanising secret agent. How does Brosnan bow out of the role of a character that he has indentified himself with for four fully fledged movies?
As you would expect, the film begins with a bang as Bond, James Bond, as he tries to outsmart the North Koreans and assassinate Zao (Rick Yune). Of course this leads to a semi-entertaining action sequence, but it seems that no one can stay dead in a Bond movie. Bond is then captured by the North Koreans, led by Zao's father, and is inprisoned where he is tortured for many months in hope that he will ...
Advantages: Exciting standard Bond. Lots of in jokes for the fans. Disadvantages: Not what die hard fans expected, too many changes for it to be a classic.
Ooh, here we go Bond number 20. Well actually Bond number 22, but it hasn?t got quite the same ring to it has it? Anyway. The lights go down and Bond does his familiar walk across the screen. Hang on! What the hell is that stupid jazzed up music and why does the bullet fly towards us? Never mind. Here comes the explosive opening, hmmm, good, at least they haven?t tried to mess with that. Okay, now it?s time for the song and?wait! What the hell is this? A music video? What the hell does Madonna think she?s doing ruining the opening song? Come on love it?s not Bond?s fault that your last movie didn?t get a release over here because it sucked.
As you can gather, the opening to Die anotherDay is a tedious and irritating example of people who think that they can screw with the formula and get away with it. Didn?t they see Tomorrow ...
Advantages: First 40 minutes Disadvantages: Remainder of film
It's taken well over a month to get over the sheer disappointment of this entry into the Bond cycle. Any attempt to review it prior to now would have had me spitting nails. In hindsight, it's still bad, it's just a little easier to see why it had to be that way.
There is a funny kind of logic to the 4th Bond film of each actors tenure, Lazenby and Dalton aside. Flabby, bloated, lazy, Bond-by-numbers, that is usually the hallmarks of the 4th Bond. Thunderball was okay, had brief moments of excellence, but on the whole, despite a Fleming original to work from, it was a tired offering. Moonraker, was just commitee Bond, ticking off the boxes as it covered big pre-credit stunt, beautiful locations, foreign villain with peculiar habits, you know the score. Die AnotherDay is just fuel to that fire.
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