James Bond rewatch: ‘Die Another Day’
Although it’s not as bad as it seemed back in 2002, Die Another Day’s good parts are undermined by the overuse of digital effects and a curious self-satisfaction.
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Although it’s not as bad as it seemed back in 2002, Die Another Day’s good parts are undermined by the overuse of digital effects and a curious self-satisfaction.
In a photo finish with GoldenEye, 1999’s The World is Not Enough emerges as Brosnan’s best movie by a nose. It’s funny, moving, sexy, thrilling and (three minutes of Garbage aside) never dull.
A perfect cocktail of swagger, severity, and schoolboy innuendo, Brosnan’s Bond blends a little bit of every previous incarnation before him.
Another fine example of Hollywood royalty raking in the filthy lucre of advertising demonstrated here, as Pierce Brosnan gets all Bondian on behalf of Visa. Stuck in a traffic jam, the suave one ditches his limo for a motorised rickshaw and gets – as he might quip in other, more coital scenarios – the ride … >