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Die Another Day

 Starring: Pierce Brosnan

 Directed by: Lee Tamahori

 Rated PG-13

 Genre: Action

 Theatrical Release Year: 2002

 Synopsis: A North Korean madman is out to take over the world, and it is up to James Bond to stop him from doing so.

 My Thoughts: This movie started out so incredibly great, and twenty minutes or so into the film, it took a brutal nose dive...why you may ask...keep reading.

   Scorecard

     Acting- Pierce Brosnan returns for his final James Bond film and again does a very good job in the character, he seems to be very comfortable with the Bond guise, then everything falls flat once the Bond girl comes into the picture. Halle Berry plays Jinx a CIA operative out to help Bond, and ruins the entire franchise. Having Berry play such a crucial role in this film ruined the entire Bond feel. (0)

     Direction- Lee Tamahori gives a stab at directing a Bond film, and actually does a pretty decent job, the movie flowed nicely, but he did not get great performances out of all his actors, and that really hurt the quality of the film. (1/2)

     Story- A North Korean is assumed killed, so he goes and changes his looks in order to be more undercover so he has a better chance to take over the world. It sounds like a bad Pinky and the Brain episode. This movie was crucial in the demise of the Bond Franchise, and this story with the Jinx character playing a HUGE part in this story really took away from Bond. She was really unneeded. (0)

     Expectations- I was hoping that this movie would be awesome, just for the fact that all the previews made it look really cool, this movie was really good for the first 20-30 minutes, but then jumped off a cliff in a downward spiral once the Jinx character showed up. (0)

     Boring?- This movie was very boring and seemed like it ran for a long time, even with a running time of only 130 minutes or so. I really enjoyed the first part of the film when Bond was captured in North Korea, it really worked well for this film, but once that was done, it fell flat. But I am going to give it a half star just for the first few minutes of the movie because the fact that it was fun to watch. (1/2)

   Final Score: 1 out of 5

 Final Thoughts: While this movie was not the worst Bond film ever made, it certainly was close to it. There was not a whole lot of enjoyment I got out of watching this movie, except for the first couple of scenes. I really don't recommend this movie even if you are a Bond fan, there was just something about that Jinx character played by Halle Berry that made me really hate this movie, because if you take her out of the equation, this film would have been pretty good.

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