Die Another Day: Critic Reviews

The first Bond movie in ages that isn't fake fun.

The most satisfying Bond movie since The Spy Who Loved Me.

It's as if Austin Powers never happened.

The film is so fraught with explosions and chases that the action eventually feels numbing.

There's only so much ridiculousness the human mind can take, and director Lee Tamahori crosses that line by a good 20 minutes.

Surely it will not be giving things away to tell you there's absolutely nothing new about the latest episode.

As professionally mediocre as its predecessors.

Dissing a Bond movie is quite like calling a dog stupid, but when it has the temerity to run over two hours, you feel like winding up with a kick.

If you watch movies chiefly for stunts and special effects, this Bond is for you. If you watch to see a beloved formula regurgitated, make tracks.

Despite an overabundance of obvious computer-generated effects, Die Another Day shines as the best of the Brosnan Bonds.

'Die Another Day's' special effects will make your eyes open so wide your contacts might fall out, but the spy caper is double-crossed by a stupid script littered with one-liners so dumb that 007 actually makes XXX (Vin Diesel) sound like he's clever.

This movie has the usual impossible stunts ... But it has just as many scenes that are lean and tough enough to fit in any modern action movie.

You leave feeling like you've endured a long workout without your pulse ever racing.

The problem for me is that the story is so entirely at the service of the special effects.

Prefab and formulaic all the way.

It's a movie that tries to have it both ways -- and for the most part, succeeds.

It's better than the last film, The World Is Not Enough, but it doesn't really recapture the old vim and vigor.

The most thrilling, lavishly designed and imaginative Bond picture in years.

A midrange series entry that sports some tasty scenes, mostly in the first half, but also pushes 007 into CGI-driven, quasi-sci-fi territory that feels like a betrayal of what the franchise has always been about.

The first installment of the new millennium, maintains the franchise's standing as the ultimate cinematic guilty pleasure.

The latest and least of the Pierce Brosnan Bonds.

A bit like watching a champion fighter win a title bout on points rather than a satisfying knockout.

In a movie that's distinguished by some higher heights than most recent Bonds, and some new lows, Die Another Day also sees Bond do battle with obviously artificial digitally created backgrounds and effects.

It's flawed, but it's the best 007 flick in 20 years.

That this Bond will be smarter is clear from its title sequence, which leaves you both shaken and stirred.