Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #5295 in DVD
• Released on: 2006-07-17
• Rating: Suitable for 12 years and over
• Aspect ratio: 2.35:1
• Formats: Box set, PAL, Widescreen
• Original language: English
• Subtitled in: Greek, Dutch, Hindi, Norwegian, Finnish, Danish, English, Swedish
• Number of discs: 2
• Running time: 127 minutes

Synopsis
In DIE ANOTHER DAY--the 20th James Bond adventure--007 (Pierce Brosnan) gets off to a rough start when he's captured and subsequently tortured during an assignment in North Korea. When the suave secret agent is eventually liberated, he embarks on a dangerous mission that involves tracking a terrorist named Zao (Rick Yune) to Cuba, where 007 also encounters Jinx (Halle Berry), a highly formidable and alluring fellow spy. Soon Bond is back in England following a mysterious trail that leads to Gustav Graves (Toby Stephens), a flamboyant diamond mogul. After a rather bloody introduction, Graves invites 007 to Iceland, where he plans to unveil his enigmatic Icarus project. Before long, Bond and Jinx are reunited and battling Graves, Zao, and other villains bent on world domination. With this Bond instalment, directed by Lee Tamahori, 007 catches up with the 21st century and the results are grittier and more explosive than ever before. Although it begins as one of the darkest and most violent Bond films, the intense mood of DIE ANOTHER DAY is also counterbalanced by typically clever and funny moments. Brosnan is in fine form as the iconic hero, while Berry shines as the immediately likeable Jinx. Stephens and Yune are excellent as the two main bad guys, and the rest of the cast--including Judi Dench, John Cleese, Rosamund Pike, and Michael Madsen--provide key supporting roles. With its hi-tech gadgets and special-effects-laden set pieces, DIE ANOTHER DAY clearly has its eye on the future, but in numerous scenes it also lovingly embraces the past, placing the film in the upper tier of Bond movies.

Customer Reviews

A Seriously Over-egged Pudding
As a Bond fan, I was very disappointed by this contender for the "Worst Bond Film Ever" title. As the 20th Bond and 40th anniversary, this was supposed to be a celebration. Brosnan had been a fine Bond until now but CGI surfing, a crappy "Transformer" villain, Madonna, Invisible car and the worst location (ice palace) ever for a Bond film cement this as a stone cold loser. It's like they threw everything in but not much sticked. Shame.

Oh Dear!!!
Oh what can I say, this is by far the worst of the bond movies. Bad CGI effects, ice palaces, an awful plot and Brosnan is looks like he's just going throughthe motions. The worst part for me is why the producers thought having Ms berry coming out of the sea was a good idea ripping of possibly the most iconic sceane in bond history. Overall I wasn't impressed with this boring and derperate effert, a very dissapointing movie.

A BRAIN-DEAD DUD.
with the possible exception of the pitiful 1971 entry 'DIAMONDS are FOREVER', 'DAD' is easily the most ignoble BOND entry in the entire series: certainly the least credible serving of the 21st Century.

The thrills and spills are frequent enough, but it has all been done so many times before [in infinitely more skilled hands] that this epic shambles serves no real purpose beyond forgettable 'popcorn' thrills: this total production is a monumental waste of film-making potential: at best it is a routine, also-ran entry in the BOND canon; --at worst, it is a hackneyed, cliched abomination of pseudo-cinematic confetti.

In order to inject 'new' scope into the tired [at this point] formulae, we are asked to accept as credible the concept of a fully-functioning INVISIBLE CAR: a totally ridiculous notion that not even the AUSTIN POWERS spy/60s send-ups would entertain as suitable.

BOND girl-watchers will doubtless enjoy the appearance of HALLE BERRY, but this is short compensation for this strictly BOND-by-numbers sub-MATT HELM nonsense, that represents a particularly non-entertaining, blundering, clunking mis-fire within the usually-reliable 007 series.