Die Another Day

2002 Action/Adventure

Pierce Brosnan makes his fourth appearance as suave super-spy James Bond in this espionage thriller, the 20th film in the official Bond series. While on assignment in North Korea, Bond is captured by government agents, where he's imprisoned and tortured for over a year. When Bond finally wins his freedom, not everyone is certain 007 is still capable of doing the job, but after Zao (Rick Yune), the North Korean operative who snared Bond, is discovered to be in cahoots with unscrupulous entrepreneur Gustav Graves (Toby Stephens), Bond is back on the case, and he finds the two men have sinister plans which could decide the fate of the world. As Bond hops from England to Cuba to Korea to Iceland in pursuit of his quarry, he (as usual) makes the acquaintance of two beautiful and mysterious women, Jinx (Halle Berry) and Miranda Frost (Rosamund Pike). Judi Dench and John Cleese return in Die Another Day as, respectively, Bond's superior M and gadget-master Q; Madonna contributes the film's theme song and makes a cameo appearance as a fencing instructor. more..

Director: Lee Tamahori

Starring: Pierce Brosnan, Halle Berry, Toby Stephens, Rosamund Pike, Rick Yune

Reviews

  • The savviest and most exciting Bond adventure in years, and that's because there's actually something at stake in it.

    Owen Gleiberman - Entertainment Weekly

    19 January 2013

  • Die Another Day is still utterly absurd from one end to the other, of course, but in a slightly more understated way. And so it goes, Bond after Bond, as the most durable series in movie history heads for the half-century.

    Roger Ebert - The Chicago Sun-Times

    19 January 2013

  • Brosnan, in his fourth time up at the Bond bat, hits this one out of the park.

    Peter Travers - Rolling Stone

    19 January 2013

  • Perhaps the most satisfying Bond movie since "The Spy Who Loved Me."

    Dana Stevens - The New York Times

    19 January 2013

  • Dead-on as entertaining eye candy, a bona fide guilty pleasure -- for the first hour. But the movie loses steam and the sequences that dazzled in the beginning get overshadowed by the excesses of later scenes.

    Claudia Puig - USA Today

    19 January 2013

Awards

  • Female

    Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films (2003)

     
  • Best Actress

    BET Awards (2003)

     
  • David Arnold

    BMI Film & TV Awards (2003)

  • Theatrical - Best Supporting Actress

    Black Reel Awards (2003)

     
  • Best Newcomer

    Empire Awards, UK (2003)