Die Another Day - Movie Review

die another day was Pierce Brosnan's final film as James Bond and since no time to die was originally going to come out this week I thought it'd be fun to fill up this week with some James Bond reviews to pretend like James Bond is still around at least until November when we can hopefully watch that film in cinemas together Brosnan's fourth and final film came out in 2002 and it begins with him surfing into North Korea that should have been a pretty big indicator that this was gonna go south really fast bonds on North Korea trying to hunt down this ruthless terrorist he leads him on a merry chase across a minefield with some hover cars and eventually the terrorist is killed after that Bond is imprisoned in North Korea and tortured with scorpions and all kinds of fucked-up [ __ ] including Madonna's opening theme song which is another form of torture definitely a bad bond theme song and to make matters worse Madonna was also given a cameo in the film and the entire scene is like the biggest eye winking at you see you handle your weapon Wow I have been known to keep my tip up here's the thing about Die Another Day it's definitely Brosnan's worst Bond film it's even his least favorite of the ones he did he argued with the producers that the gadgets were getting too involved too crazy and that it should go back to the darker roots of Ian Fleming's novels clearly he wasn't a fan of this movie strange thing about it is it's not the most boring of his films for me Tomorrow Never Dies it's actually the most boring of the four movies he did it's not the worst it's just the least interesting the villain is like some tech mogul Teri Hatcher's in it it's it's just like the exact same thing happened to Pierce Brosnan that happened to Daniel Craig Martin Campbell came in there made a [ __ ] great movie with Goldeneye and Casino Royale and then somebody else came in and said yeah I'm gonna make tomorrow never dies in Quantum of Solace sorry Martin Campbell we know you gave us an easy path but we [ __ ] you so despite how silly and over-the-top Die Another Day is the best thing I can say about it is that it's not boring something's always happening you can always at least look at the movie and kind of laugh at some of the absurdities there's a few action set pieces that are actually kind of good the opening minefield Chase is not too bad there's an OK sword fight with bond and the main villain Gustav graves which I'll definitely talk about him later in the video have many things to say about that story of mine but for the most part out of all of Brosnan's films this is the closest that actually resembles Austin Powers for instance this film introduced an invisible car and there's a car chase across ice that uses like ten thousand Rockets and a [ __ ] satellite called Icarus that the main villain has constructed in space that reflects the light of the Sun down to the earth and his excuses that it will allow countries that don't have sunlight for certain times of the year to have crops during those times but in reality he just wants to use a giant [ __ ] beam of sunlight and trust me I haven't even gotten to the really silly stuff yet we'll get there don't worry well bond is investigating things in the movie which by the way I just want to say it's kind of hard to follow what he's actually doing we understand that somebody may be kind of sort of betrayed him in the opening scene which caused him to be tortured for many months sort of because somebody says it once like oh I've been betrayed by someone someone betrayed you yes I was betrayed I'm like wait what the film is attempting to have a plot it's attempting to have a narrative of some kind that you can follow and understand with character elements that shift around and that are interesting there's intrigue and spy stuff but it really doesn't care about any of that it really really doesn't what this movie is really interested in is excess it was desperately trying to make bond feel relevant and modern and apparently their idea of that was just shoving everything into a movie having invisible cars and all kinds of [ __ ] nonsense so let's talk a little bit about Halle Berry if you saw John wick 3 you know that Halle Berry is more than capable of doing awesome stuff on screen she was given a great opportunity in that movie to showcase a lot of skills and a lot of training and she was [ __ ] badass but in some of her early 2000s action film attempts like Catwoman and Die Another Day these screenwriters the producers who ever nobody really trusted her to do much she got to kick a couple people in the face so long as she took her clothes off before she did it for instance there's a fight scene at the end of this movie with Rosamund Pike and Halle Berry and Rosamund Pike just shows up looking like Elektra or something for no reason there's no explanation for why she's dressed like that and and they just start [ __ ] fighting it's kind of man the early 2000s I should talk about Pierce Brosnan because I do love him as Bond I think he's excellent in Goldeneye and even in some of his lesser films I think he's still really good and I still think he's really good as bond in this movie he's giving it his all he's trying really hard to in the action scenes he gives a lot he does a lot of the stunt work himself you can see some takes where he does some of his stuff but he's surrounded by noise you can't really hone in on anything every time he gets to have an actual conversation with somebody it's usually a bunch of sexual innuendos I take it mr. Barnes been explaining his Big Bang Theory oh yeah I think I got the rest of it but I think it's time we discuss what I really am excited to talk about and that is the twist of the movie so if you've never seen this film I'm gonna get into some spoilers the main villain of the film a British man who's definitely white isn't actually in reality the North Korean terrorist from the beginning that we thought was dead has gone through a number of procedures to make him look like this man this was only like 18 years ago holy [ __ ] Jesus Christ [Music] pushing aside the obvious issues with this storyline that is dumb that is stupid that is just a very dumb idea there's like the surprise of it was was less about the story like what they setup and more of like he actually did that what were you thinking and he's wearing like a Power Rangers suit and he electrocutes people including his father and you can see the [ __ ] electricity of course like it's Star Wars and this entire finale sequence that builds from this Icarus satellite beaming the sunlight down to the earth melting the [ __ ] ice behind bond leading to him surfing on a piece of that vehicle this film completely lost its mind [Music] [Music] when it comes to Pierce Brosnan's movies goldeneyes obviously the best one I love that movie Tomorrow Never Dies and the world is not enough you can talk about them and I'll probably review them one day but die another day and Gould and I are the ones that are the most interesting to talk about because this one is just so [ __ ] nuts and goldeneyes actually really good I flirted with just making a hilarious 'ti of this movie but honestly there's enough quality elements to the film's production to Pierce Brosnan's performance and there's a few action scenes that are alright David Arnold's score is pretty good David Arnold is still my favorite James Bond composer I wish someone would bring him back his last film was Quantum of Solace his score for Casino Royale is [ __ ] underrated just listen to it it's all on YouTube it's great die another day is well it's I'm gonna give daya nother day a d-plus so guys stay tuned for the rest of this week I'm gonna have at least one more James Bond review for you I'll try to do two but at least one for sure look forward to that guys thank you so much as always for watching and if you like this you can click right here and get stuck mine eyes [Music]

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Rating: 4.9200001 out of 5

Keywords: Die Another Day, Movie Review, 2002, Chris Stuckmann, Review, Reviews, Film, Scene, Clip, Trailer, Teaser, Ending, Score, OST, Soundtrack, Music, 007, James Bond, Goldeneye, Tomorrow Never Dies, World is Not Enough, Casino Royale, No Time to Die, Pierce Brosnan, Halle Berry, Rosamund Pike, Toby Stephens, Rick Yune, Judi Dench, John Cleese, Michael Madsen, Will Yun Lee, Samantha Bond, Ian Fleming, Lee Tamahori

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Length: 9min 14sec (554 seconds)

Published: Thu Apr 02 2020