Pierce Brosnan’s chemistry with both Rosamund Pike and Halle Berry goes a long way from keeping this movie interesting, as does his repartee with Toby Stephens’ villain, Gustav Graves.
If only the proposed return of Michelle Yeoh’s Wai Lin came to be, we might have seen a better movie.
We see James Bond fail a mission that leads to his capture and torture by foreign government, and that’s just the opening of Die Another Day’s spin on the “Bond’s gone rogue” style of mission.
There’s a fantastic kernel of an idea at the center of it all, but director Lee Tamahori’s entry goes off the rails early and barely hangs on the rest of the way.