James Bond - Die Another Day [UK IMPORT]

Verkaufsrang: 21853 (Video)
Actor: Pierce Brosnan
Actor: Halle Berry
Actor: Toby Stephens
Actor: Rosamund Pike
Actor: Rick Yune
Binding: Videokassette
Director: Lee Tamahori
EAN: 5050070010107
Format: PAL
Format: Import
Label: MGM Entertainment
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Manufacturer: MGM Entertainment
Anzahl Medien: 1
NumberOfItems: 1
Verlag: MGM Entertainment
Erscheinungsdatum: 2. Mai 2003
Spielzeit: 127
Studio: MGM Entertainment
TheatricalReleaseDate: 22. November 2002
von: Pierce Brosnan (Hauptdarsteller), Halle Berry (Hauptdarsteller)
Preis: EUR 15,50

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Eine Schande für jeden Bondfan! (17. Juni 2006)

Ohne ein Blatt vor den Mund zu nehmen:
Dieser Bond ist einfach dämlich! Und das sagt Ihnen jemand der sich wirklich auskennt.

Super unrealistische Gadgets, hohle Story, ein Bösewicht, der nicht mal einen Kindergeburtstag erschrecken kann und ein nerviges Bondgirl. Die Bondtypische Action wird mit unrealistischen Locations und unsichtbaren Autos ins
Lächerliche gezogen.

Zugegeben, jeder Bond-Film ist auf eine gewisse Weise unrealistisch und überzogen (und das gehört auch absolut dazu) aber nie in dieser Weise blamabel. (Okay, Moonraker war auch einer dieser Ausrutscher!)
Die erste halbe Stunde ist noch erträglich, aber der Rest ist für jeden Bond-Fan eine Qual!

Zu erwähnen sind noch die unglaublichen Special Effects, die vermutlich mit einem Super Nintendo realisiert wurden.
Wieso mussten die letzten 2 Bondfilme so schlecht sein? Brosnan hatte einen guten Start mit 2 absolut sehenswerten Filmen, und danach sowas!

Hat das vielleicht damit zutun, das die Produzenten durch Filme wie "xXx" kalte Füße bekommen haben und deshalb den Agenten Ihrer Majestät auf einen hirnamputierten SciFi-Trip geschickt haben?!
Hoffentlich besinnen sich Wilson und Broccoli wieder und verhelfen dem neuen (sehr guten) Bond Daniel Craig zu einem tollen Debüt.

was surprised how enjoyable (1. August 2004)

I have watched this several times before I wrote anything. The movie takes repeat viewing well. Frankly, Bond was, and always will be Sean Connery. But, time marches on. We have been through Lazenby, Moore, Dalton and now Brosnan. Each bring their
own touch to the role.

Pierce is losing his pretty boy look as he ages, a plus in my opinion. He is finally growing into the new age Bond. Halle Berry is great as Jinx, naturally gorgeous to look at, but she also brings a much need touch of humour. Toby Stephans is a strong Bond foe, and his fight scene in the fencing school with Brosnan is one of the highlights of the movie. Very impressively staged scene that has great tension. A bit more believability than a lot of the typical Bond action sequences.

Sadly, with Q's Desmond Llewelyn passing, you have dry humour in the form of John Cleese assuming the role of the gadget master, who outfits Bond for his cases. There is a cute homage to the original Connery films with Brosnan tinkering with old props from Thunderball and From Russia With Love.

Face it, Bond, like Star Wars is showing it's age. Neither seem to impress audiences as they once did. With that in mind, I did not expect this to be a grade A Bond classic. Brosnan, while doing justice to the role, fails to make it his own, and each film he has done, just fades in my mind, even after watching several times.

This Bond film is fresh, it will stay with me, so basically, I think it's the strongest of Brosnan's efforts. He really seems to hit his stride in the film.

Wo ist James Bond??? (11. Juni 2003)

Man habe ich mich gefreut den Film endlich zu sehen. Also DVD rein und Play drücken. Und nach 2 Stunden die Frage: Wo war James? Nichts gegen Brosnan, er ist klasse, aber wo ist die Story? Action ohne Ende ist in diesem Film Trumpf. Schade so verkommt James Bond zu xXx. Also mein Tip: Auf den nächsten warten und auf eine Geschichte hoffen!

Bond goes Science Fiction (22. Mai 2003)

Gestatten, Bond, James Bond. Der ist auch nicht mehr das was er mal war. Zumindest hinterlässt der 20. Titel "Stirb an einem anderen Tag" (Die another Day - welch gekonnte Übersetzung...) diesen faden Beigeschmack. Das man mit der Zeit gehen sollte ist uns allen klar, aber muss es denn gleich soweit gehen? Da versucht ein scheinheiliger Diamantenschleifer doch glatt mit einem Satelitten namens Icarus aus dem Weltall der guten alten Erde eine zweite Sonne zu spenden - oder doch nur großen Schrecken zu verbreiten? Indem er im cyborgähnlichen Anzug mit DNA-verändertem Aussehen in einem Flugzeug den gebündelten Sonnenstrahl zum Kriegsgeplänkel in Korea nutzt? Dem Treibhauseffekt sei dank, unser guter James hat sich nunmehr mächtig ins Zeug gelegt und räumt auch kräftig auf: Ein Auto (ein Aston) mit Unsichtbarmach-Tarnvorrichtung (die sich selbst reparieren kann), mit einem Metalbrett und einem Stofffetzen paragliding. Sind wir da nicht bei Tripple X gelandet? Hatte ich erwähnt das das Auto kugelsicher und natürlich unzerstörbar ist?Für die Frauen braucht unser Charmeur aus England jetzt nur noch fünf Sätze, aber sonst sucht man das Englische am Agenten ihrer Majestät vergebens. Auch die Story pfeift aus dem letzten Loch - nach 19 Filmen haben Tricktechnik, Aktionszenen und am schlimmsten - Unrealismus - nicht nur ihren Einzug erhalten, sondern gleich alle anderen Urqualitäten der Lizenz zum Töten in den Besenschrank gesperrt. Seien wir ehrlich, wenn ich sehen möchte wie ein Hubschrauber aus einem Transportflugzeug fällt und erst kurz über Erdboden die rettende Turbine anspringt, dann schaue ich mir wirklich xXx an...

Austin Powers part 4 (5. Mai 2003)

So here it is, the latest installment of the Austin Powers franchise. Except, no, hang on a minute, its actually James Bond 20, Die Another Day, although the comparisons are undeniable. In a plot very similar to Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me, bad guy Gustav Graves, more Scott Evil than Dr Evil with that coiffure, wants to take over the world and conquer the nasty western imperialists using a frickin' big laser, codenamed Icarus. Or should that actually be The Alan Parsons Project? I'm confused! Okay, so I'm being a smart arse but it seems terribly ironic to me that for the 40th anniversary, and 20th movie, of the longest running (and most succesful) franchise in cinema history that the producers should fail to notice the similarities in plot between Die Another Day and Austin Powers, which openly lampoons the Bond films.

The tragedy is that Die Another Day opens very promisingly with an excellent set piece of Bond and two other agents surfing through enormous waves before landing on the coast of North Korea. From there we then have another excellent set piece as Bond tries to make an improbable escape from the nasty North Korean arms dealers. The credit sequence is very good too, with a harder edge than is normal for Bond credits, as we see 007 being systematically tortured. At this point I'm thinking excellent, best Bond movie for a long time. New harder more serious Bond for the 21 st century. This for the most part continues even with Madonna making an unnecessary cameo, where despite only having about two minutes screen time, she once again demonstrates her carpentry skills, sorry I mean acting skills.

We also get some great nods to the legacy of Bond as Pierce Brosnan tours Q's laboratory full of 007's old gadgets. We even get a great Flemingesque fencing match between the baddie Gustav Graves and Bond. There is of course the total silliness of discovering that 007's latest gadget is an invisible car (purlease) but I suspended my horror and disbelief and caried on hoping this was going to be a rather silly but minor glitch in the proceedings. Then we had the marvellous sight of Halle Berry, possibly the best Bond girl ever, emerging from the waves as the new Bond girl a la Ursula Andress in Dr No. In fact everything is going swimmingly until the movie reaches Gustav Graves ice palace in Iceland, where everything falls apart with a combination of a poor script, rubbish plot and some very awful CGI. What I want to know is, what muppet thought that having Bond kite surfing was in any way shape or form a good idea? It was like watching one of those old movies where people drive along in cars with a movie playing behind them of a country road. You know what I mean, the kind of thing that they did before they invented blue screens and digital special effects. Awful!!! From then on it doesn't get any better, the script seems to get worse and more cliched and the film becomes more and more reliant on second rate CGI special effects. Plus, the comparisons with Austin Powers don't stop at the laser plot. The script is full of the kind of rubbish puns and silly plot points, which Mike Myers lampoons with Dr Evil and his son Scott. Plus Toby Stephens as the Bond villain is well, how can I put it, rubbish? He's a crass middle/upper class English public schoolboy vaguely reminiscent of Diana's former love interest, James Hewitt (does anybody remember that cad)? I mean, ooh, how scary, not. Please don't beat me up with your posh voice Bond must have pondered.

All that said, there are some good points. Brosnan is as ever a fantastic Bond and the only actor to seriously rival Sean Connery in the part of the suavest secret agent in the world. Also, as previously mentioned, Halle Berry is possibly the classiest Bond girl ever and perhaps the only A list actress to star in a Bond movie whilst at the peak of her career. Ive been a fan of Ms Berry's since I first saw her in The Last Boy Scout, all of ten years ago and the only thing that has surprised me is that it has taken her this long to get the recognition that she has deserved. In fact, Berry as the American secret agent Jinx was probably a bit too classy for this movie and in the end is sorely wasted. Yes Bond 20 also has its moments but ultimately the movie as a whole is terribly dissapointing and certainly the worst Bond movie of the Brosnan era.