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61
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59
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58
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Die Another Day
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
FILM:
MPAA RATING: PG-13 for action violence and sexuality
Starring
Pierce Brosnan,
Halle Berry,
Toby Stephens,
Rosamund Pike,
Rick Yune,
John Cleese,
Judi Dench,
and
Michael Madsen
In this 20th installment of the James Bond franchise, 007 circles the world in his quest to unmask a traitor and prevent a war of catastrophic proportions.
| GENRE(S): |
Suspense/Thriller
|
| WRITTEN BY: |
Neal Purvis
Robert Wade
Ian Fleming (characters)
|
| DIRECTED BY: |
Lee Tamahori
|
| RELEASE DATE: |
DVD: June 3, 2003
Video: June 3, 2003
Theatrical: November 22, 2002
|
| RUNNING TIME: |
110 minutes, Color |
| ORIGIN: |
UK / USA |

All critic scores are converted to a 100-point scale. If a critic does not indicate a score, we assign a score based on the general impression given by the text of the review. Learn more...
91
Entertainment Weekly
Owen Gleiberman
The savviest and most exciting Bond adventure in years, and that's because there's actually something at stake in it.

88
New York Daily News
Jami Bernard
As strong on action as it is weak on the interpersonal stuff. If Bond can get a new car for each episode, how about some new pickup lines?

83
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
William Arnold
All told, this first Bond of the new millennium may be far from the best of the series, but it's assured, wonderfully respectful of its past and thrilling enough to make it abundantly clear that this movie phenomenon has once again reinvented itself for a new generation, and is very likely to outlive us all.

80
Film Threat
Clint Morris
The real-deal, packed with more excitement, vigor and fortitude than an unfaltering Magnum.

80
Film Threat
Michael Dequina
Brosnan's best mission as Bond yet, and the most satisfying installment of the franchise in recent memory.

80
Dallas Observer
Gregory Weinkauf
Tamahori pumps a tremendous amount of energy into his Bond movie, and it's an electrifying ride.

80
LA Weekly
John Patterson
The result is the niftiest Bond movie in years -- fresh, funny, and jammed to the rafters with demented stunts, Boys'-Own gadgetry and brazen promiscuity.

75
New York Post
Megan Lehmann
Aside from a jarringly fake computer-generated avalanche scene that momentarily challenges the necessary suspension of disbelief, the big-bang set pieces are superbly crafted.

75
Rolling Stone
Peter Travers
Brosnan, in his fourth time up at the Bond bat, hits this one out of the park.

75
Miami Herald
Howard Cohen
Amped to the max, with firepower and fisticuffs flying, this is Bond as we have come to know him in the post-Roger Moore years: bigger, badder, better.

75
Charlotte Observer
Lawrence Toppman
The picture should satisfy both diehard fans, who liked the plotting and interaction of early Bond films, and "Die Hard" fans, who prefer Bond shaken and stirred by massive explosions, vehicular crashes and gunplay befitting a Central American revolution.

75
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert
Die Another Day is still utterly absurd from one end to the other, of course, but in a slightly more understated way. And so it goes, Bond after Bond, as the most durable series in movie history heads for the half-century.

70
Salon.com
Stephanie Zacharek
Tamahori's Die Another Day is an imperfect Bond movie. But for every patch where it's dull and lifeless or just plain stupid, there are also sections that are significantly different from anything we've seen before in a Bond movie.

70
Slate
David Edelstein
He thrilled me, then betrayed me in the end.

70
The New York Times
Dana Stevens
Perhaps the most satisfying Bond movie since "The Spy Who Loved Me."

63
Boston Globe
Wesley Morris
Die Another Day is still as professionally mediocre as its predecessors.

63
USA Today
Claudia Puig
Dead-on as entertaining eye candy, a bona fide guilty pleasure -- for the first hour. But the movie loses steam and the sequences that dazzled in the beginning get overshadowed by the excesses of later scenes.

63
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
Liam Lacey
Every hero needs to be revitalized by a little humiliation, and for at least the first 40 minutes of Die Another Day, Bond's dressing-down seems to do him and the movie franchise a world of good.

60
Chicago Reader
Jonathan Rosenbaum
Maybe I've seen too many James Bond movies by now, or maybe the trouble with this 20th installment is that the filmmakers are trying too hard to top the excesses of the predecessors.

60
Washington Post
Desson Thomson
Surely it will not be giving things away to tell you there's absolutely nothing new about the latest episode.

50
Christian Science Monitor
David Sterritt
Pierce Brosnan has mastered every smidgen of 007 schtick, making the role more thoroughly his own than any actor since Sean Connery -- still the best of the batch -- decided to call it quits.

50
San Francisco Chronicle
Mick LaSalle
The new movie lacks something, a special something. It's a quality that has characterized some of the best of the first 19 Bond movies: extravagant ludicrousness.

50
The Onion (A.V. Club)
Keith Phipps
The many shots of characters operating devices with remote controls will do little to quiet the complaints that the films have started to resemble video games, and the same can be said of the proliferating digital effects.

50
Washington Post
Ann Hornaday
Beginning to creak not only with age but with the strain of constant self-one-upmanship in giving us exotic locales, explosive geopolitics and unbelievable stunts.

50
Philadelphia Inquirer
Steven Rea
Not even Halle Berry, emerging from the blue Caribbean in an orange two-piece -- can bring this thing to life.

50
Portland Oregonian
Kim Morgan
Another Bond film that turns out to be an unspectacular spectacle, at times winking and fun but too often plodding and hackneyed. That said, as usual Brosnan is terrific, walking through dunderhead moments and a tedious plot with grace.

50
Baltimore Sun
Michael Sragow
As a franchise, the James Bond series needs its stomach stapled.

50
Chicago Tribune
Mark Caro
You leave feeling like you've endured a long workout without your pulse ever racing. The exercise ultimately is product placement, with Bond the biggest product of them all.

50
Los Angeles Times
Manohla Dargis
Die Another Day is only intermittently entertaining but it's hard not to be a sucker for its charms, or perhaps it's just impossible not to feel nostalgia for movies you grew up with.

50
New York Magazine
Peter Rainer
This series is in its fortieth year; it might be nice to see Bond battle a readily identifiable, real-world villain for a change. There's certainly no shortage.

50
TV Guide
Frank Lovece
The non-action scenes are so pedestrian that one suspects the good stuff is less due to workmanlike director Lee Tamahori than to one of the best second-unit crews in the biz.

50
ReelViews
James Berardinelli
This is a train wreck of an action film - a stupefying attempt by the filmmakers to force-feed James Bond into the mindless "XXX" mold and throw 40 years of cinematic history down the toilet in favor of bright flashes and loud bangs.

50
Variety
Todd McCarthy
Sports some tasty scenes, mostly in the first half, but also pushes 007 into CGI-driven, quasi-sci-fi territory that feels like a betrayal of what the franchise has always been about.

40
Austin Chronicle
Marc Savlov
Just doesn't have it.

30
Wall Street Journal
Joe Morgenstern
What's new here is a severe deficit of style, or even craftsmanship, both in the action sequences and what passes for human interludes.
30
Newsweek
David Ansen
Flat, distressingly witless -- To put it bluntly -- the thrill is gone. Nobody did it better. But that was then.
10
Village Voice
Michael Atkinson
Dissing a Bond movie is quite like calling a dog stupid, but when it has the temerity to run over two hours, you feel like winding up with a kick.


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