Die Another Day (2002)

	Also Known As: -
	Year of first release: 2002
	Director: Lee Tamahori (Once Were Warriors, xXx: State of the Union)
	Actors: Pierce Brosnan (Dante's Peak, Mars Attacks!), Halle Berry (Catwoman, X-men 1-3), Toby Stephens (Severance), Rosamund Pike (Doom, Fracture, Surrogates)
	Country: USA, GB
	Genre: Action
	Conditions of visioning: 30.07.2013, Blu-ray, Home cinema
Synopsis: James Bond (Brosnan) is captured during a mission in North Korea. At his return he will hunt the people who betrayed him.
Review: The little I remembered from this movie is the ice palace being destroyed by a satellite reflecting the sunlight, and it is the main reason why I wanted to see it again in Blu-ray! The HD image quality is good but not exceptionnal, but it turns out to be enough as the special effects are a bit poorly done. The action scenes are anyway a lot of fun. The movie is quite a classic Bond because of the storyline, the way 007 speaks, the jokes, the two Bond-girls, the Martinis. It is even ridiculous at times (like the minute of dialog he needs to talk the character of Hale Berry into his bed) but you accept it as part of the myth. Because of the scene I mentionned and a few others, because of the ambition of the bad guy and of the gadgets more high-tech than usual, Die Another Day brings some megalomania in the series and is for me to the Pierce Brosnan period what Moonraker was to the Roger Moore period. It is interesting that the movie includes bad guys from North Korea, which was not yet the trend at that period.
Rating: 6 /10