91
Entertainment Weekly by Owen Gleiberman
The savviest and most exciting Bond adventure in years, and that's because there's actually something at stake in it.
Die Another Day
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- United Kingdom,
- United States
- 2002
- · 133m
Director
Lee Tamahori
Cast
Pierce Brosnan,
Halle Berry,
Toby Stephens,
Rosamund Pike,
Rick Yune,
Judi Dench
Genre
Action,
Adventure,
Thriller
When his top-secret mission is sabotaged, James Bond finds himself captured by the enemy, abandoned by MI6, and stripped of his 00-license. Determined to get revenge, Bond goes head-to-head with a sultry spy, a frosty agent, and a billionaire whose secret is a diabolical weapon that could bring the world to its knees.
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88
New York Daily News by 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
Tampa Bay Times by Steve Persall
Pierce Brosnan is dashing and deadly, finally meeting the gold standard. And director Lee Tamahori detours from convention, taking the franchise up a notch in Die Another Day.
83
Seattle Post-Intelligencer by 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
L.A. Weekly by 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.
80
Dallas Observer by Gregory Weinkauf
Tamahori pumps a tremendous amount of energy into his Bond movie, and it's an electrifying ride.
80
Total Film by Staff (Not Credited)
Die Another Day simply blows the competition away. If you want excitement, laughs and pure sex appeal, remember one thing: Bond's really do have more fun.
80
Film Threat by Clint Morris
The real-deal, packed with more excitement, vigor and fortitude than an unfaltering Magnum.
80
Film Threat by Michael Dequina
Brosnan's best mission as Bond yet, and the most satisfying installment of the franchise in recent memory.
75
New York Post by 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.
63
The Globe and Mail (Toronto) by 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
Washington Post by Desson Thomson
Surely it will not be giving things away to tell you there's absolutely nothing new about the latest episode.
50
The A.V. Club by 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
San Francisco Chronicle by 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
Christian Science Monitor by 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.
30
Newsweek by David Ansen
Flat, distressingly witless -- To put it bluntly -- the thrill is gone. Nobody did it better. But that was then.
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