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To review i didnt get da stuff first & its 12 days late!! 2010-07-12

Reviewer: kasun

i did not receive the stuff yet to review & its 12 days late!!! Expidited international shipping mind u!!

I think I am going to be sick 2010-04-26

Reviewer: Ricardo C.

Maintaining great quality in a long running movie series is near impossible and falling off the ball will eventually happen. I can understand how the writing and direction will slide after years, natural and understandable. One thing I can't understand is how a film can be created were it becomes a stereotype of the series it is from, Die Another Day in the James Bond film series is one. DAD marked the 20th film and 40th anniversary of the series. You would think a celebration of the Bond film franchise will inspire something truly grand, instead loyal fans get slapped in the face. The very worst of Bond is glorified in the abortion that is Die Another Day. All the bad stereotypes of Bond films are here; An over flow of bad one liners, highly over the top plot, and a one dimensional and bland villain who tries to be sophisticated and menacing. This is the only Bond film I can safely say is directly aimed at the fourteen and under crowd.

The movie starts off good with something unexpected and actually interesting at the end of the pre-title sequence, Bond is captured and tortured in North Korea thanks to the evil Colonel Moon by Will Yun Lee. The torture itself is nothing to speak of really; You barely see it in the title sequence because it's being drowned in CGI effects and a Madonna song to offend to ears. The material girl also makes a few mercifully short cameos in the films. Anyway After the swirl of CGI title sequence vomit, Bond, who still has the energy to make bad quips after allegedly under going horrible pain for quite some time, is arrested by MI6 after being accused of leaking secrets during his capture. In a rather clever escape he swims to his yacht club which happens to be mere moments away from the ship he was being held on. Yes, it does get worse people. MI6 must be a rather lazy organization because Bond freely travels to Cuba and then to London of all places without any detection at all. After a series of lame one-liners and various stupid events, Bond confronts his villain-o-matic dubbed Gustav Graves played by Toby Stephens. He is in fact Colonel Moon who had DNA transplant *groan* to become a childish white guy who has a neat robo-cop suit that controls a giant sun lamp. I honestly can't even say much of this is original either.

The lines and moments are mostly recycled from all the old Bond movies and they are not even used right. One excellent example of screwing up the old material was Jinx's (Halle Berry) first appearance on the beach; This scene was copied from Honey Rider's famous entrance in Dr.No. The reason why Honey's entrance was so grand was because it was beautifully subtle; Honey naturally walks up on the beach and it didn't feel forced. Jinx's entrance was not only slow motion, which felt incredibly forced, but it was obvious the director told her to act like she was being shot by a camera; Ergo ruining the beautiful subtlety of what could have been a well done homage. The main plot is a combination of Diamonds Are Forever and Goldeneye with a giant space based satellite weapon called Icarus aka the sun lamp of doom. Many another moments were cut and paste into this film from past Bond adventures including a plot twist about Miranda Frost's (Rosamund Pike) true identity which was in fact stolen from the previous Bond turkey, THE WORLD IS NOT ENOUGH. I could be mistaken but I think incompetent Jinx character, who kills no one of any value to the film and is constantly captured, was based on the bungling Mary Goodnight from THE MAN WITH THE GOLDEN GUN.

So what is original in this film ? I guess the fact that the major villains are not even 35. That Pierce Brosnan was the heaviest actor to play Bond, no major offense of course I rather have a fat Bond then the skinny wimp in GOLDENEYE. Ah yes, the virtual reality simulation ! Yes Bond gets his own holo-deck in this film for basic training and is exploited once more at the end of the film for a lame gag involving Bond going hog wild over Moneypenny.

When this wretched film finally ends you wonder what happened to the series after 40 years, why it had become a follower instead of a leader by making kids play villains with Matrix-style action sequences. Shame on the producers for thinking so low of it's audience and the fan-base.

Replaced A VHS Tape With This..... 2010-04-10

Reviewer: C. Weaver

I have up graded to a DVD from a VHS tape to get the better set up, etc. Have always like this move.

Fantastic 2010-03-30

Reviewer: Aidi Hou

This product was actually what I had expected to be delivered in a perfect condition. 007 Die Another Day was always my favorite action movie of all time, which means some sort of highly expectations are listed while the product is on it's way to my mailbox. I was highly satisfied with my overall product. The movie was in a flawless condition by the time I opened the box. One little detail I've noticed was that amazon has a very distinct packaging compare to any other online websites that I had purchase from previously. Their product is always in either a cardboard box filled with Styrofoam to prevent compressions and collisions or in a plastic bubbled package in terms of books and flat products. I loved the way that how amazon packs it's customers' products and tend to fill its customers with top satisfactions. I have never received anything that I've purchased from amazon needs to be return because of wreckage, not workable, etc. So far, there's no doubt I'll have in my future purchase from amazon, unless a misfortune has happen to my product. Anyway, I rate not just this product, but also all the products I've purchased through amazon, 10/10. Awesome Job! Keep It Up!

A Fairly Average Bond Movie 2010-01-09

Reviewer: Gary P. Cohen

Die Another Day was the film released to celebrate Bond's 40th anniversary in the movies. It was also Brosnan's 4th and last appearance as Bond. To be honest, its a fairly average Bond film and the weakest of Brosnan's 4 films. Brosnan's James Bond films started at the top with the terrific Goldeneye and slowly worked their way downward with each film.
Each Bond film since Goldeneye have been incredibly successful. However, the 2 best Bond films "Goldeneye" and "Casino Royale" have been directed by 1 man:Martin Campbell who did a fabulous job on both of those films. The other 4 of the last 6 have been directed by different director with varying results. This one was directed by Lee Tamahori, who not long afterward was arrested for solicitation.(Remember the good old days when Terrence Young directed 3 out of the 4 first great Bond films and John Glen directed Roger Moore's last three and Timothy Dalton's 2 excellent Bond films. I do not like having a different director on each new film and hearing how great they've done because the film makes money. The last Bond film "Quantum of Solace" was as mediocre as this one. Yet I've heard the director Marc Forster proclaimed a genius because the film made boatloads of money. I hope he never does another one.) As stated the film is average with the high point being a vicious swordfight between Bond and the villain. Low points of this film included a terrible CGI sequence of Bond basically surfing over a tidal wave (don't even ask how this occurs) and Bond driving a stealth (invisable) car. The film got a lot of publicity by having Halle Berry as the leading lady, right after she won her Oscar. She is okay but I prefer the frosty Rosamund Pike as the secondary female lead. The pre-credits sequence and conclusion are average by Bond standards. (The film does try something new by having Bond captured at the end of the pre-credits sequence and tortured throughout most of the opening credits.) The very average theme song was done by Madonna, who has a cameo in the film as a fencing instructor lusting after the lovely Rosamund Pike.
As stated, by Bond standards this isn't even close to the great films in the series. It also was not a great film for Pierce Brosnan to go out on. I always felt he had at least 2 more Bonds in him. I guess the producers got tired of hearing him badmouth each film afterward and talk about things like wanting Quentin Tarantino to direct a Bond film. However the producers have got to be jumping for joy after the grosses of Daniel Craig's 2 Bonds.
The extras on the blu-ray are basically the same as on the DVD.