We have to admit that the actors that have portrayed James Bond in 40 years have been both great actors and bad actors. Pierce Brosnan fits in the first category. Brosnan is probably the second best Bond after Roger Moore - Sean Connery was great but being the first didn't give him too much visibility, George Lazenby was a very sad choice, and Timothy Dalton was unlucky enough to have 3 not-so-good movies although I really appreciate him as an actor. What was lacking in Pierce Brosnan's 007 career was a really good Bond movie. Die Another Day is that movie. Of course I've realized that the plot is senseless and silly... so what? All James Bond movies are about great action sequences, car chases, women and, naturally, Bond getting out of the most wicked situations in the most unpredictable way. In Die Another Day, 007 achieves it all. He surfs, he runs, he jumps, he drinks, he drives and he fights, all the time with flawless hairstyle & tux. This is, after all, James Bond's finest trademark. Two notes go to Toby Stephens (Gustav Graves), the first since Christopher Lee (Francisco Scaramanga) in The Man With The Golden Gun to level up with Bond and face him eye-in-the-eye, and the great Monty Python John Cleese (Q) whose performance is equal to the late Desmond Llewelyn (and who will always be Q in the hearts of James Bond fans) if not even superior. Die Another Day is probably the best bond movie since A View To A Kill because it is the first of these to have all the classic James Bond elements. All 007 fans should definitely watch this movie but viewers that are not into the genre should not get high expectations about Die Another Day. It is a movie for the fans, and what a great James Bond this is!
Review of Die Another Day
