Die Another Day
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Distributing Corporation (MGM) | Release Date: November 22, 2002 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
56
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Mixed or average reviews based on 43 Critic Reviews
Positive:
21
Mixed:
18
Negative:
4
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60
Washington PostDesson Thomson
Surely it will not be giving things away to tell you there's absolutely nothing new about the latest episode. Read full review
60
Chicago ReaderJonathan Rosenbaum
Maybe I've seen too many James Bond movies by now, or maybe the trouble with this 20th installment is that the filmmakers are trying too hard to top the excesses of the predecessors. Read full review
50
Christian Science MonitorDavid Sterritt
Pierce Brosnan has mastered every smidgen of 007 schtick, making the role more thoroughly his own than any actor since Sean Connery -- still the best of the batch -- decided to call it quits. Read full review
50
San Francisco ChronicleMick LaSalle
The new movie lacks something, a special something. It's a quality that has characterized some of the best of the first 19 Bond movies: extravagant ludicrousness. Read full review
50
The A.V. ClubKeith Phipps
The many shots of characters operating devices with remote controls will do little to quiet the complaints that the films have started to resemble video games, and the same can be said of the proliferating digital effects. Read full review
50
Washington PostAnn Hornaday
Beginning to creak not only with age but with the strain of constant self-one-upmanship in giving us exotic locales, explosive geopolitics and unbelievable stunts. Read full review
50
Philadelphia InquirerSteven Rea
Not even Halle Berry, emerging from the blue Caribbean in an orange two-piece -- can bring this thing to life. Read full review
50
Portland OregonianKim Morgan
Another Bond film that turns out to be an unspectacular spectacle, at times winking and fun but too often plodding and hackneyed. That said, as usual Brosnan is terrific, walking through dunderhead moments and a tedious plot with grace. Read full review
50
VarietyTodd McCarthy
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. Read full review
50
New York Magazine (Vulture)Peter Rainer
This series is in its fortieth year; it might be nice to see Bond battle a readily identifiable, real-world villain for a change. There's certainly no shortage. Read full review
50
TV Guide MagazineFrank Lovece
The non-action scenes are so pedestrian that one suspects the good stuff is less due to workmanlike director Lee Tamahori than to one of the best second-unit crews in the biz. Read full review
50
ReelViewsJames Berardinelli
This is a train wreck of an action film -– a stupefying attempt by the filmmakers to force-feed James Bond into the mindless "XXX" mold and throw 40 years of cinematic history down the toilet in favor of bright flashes and loud bangs. Read full review
50
Baltimore SunMichael Sragow
As a franchise, the James Bond series needs its stomach stapled. Read full review
50
Chicago TribuneMark Caro
You leave feeling like you've endured a long workout without your pulse ever racing. The exercise ultimately is product placement, with Bond the biggest product of them all. Read full review
50
Los Angeles TimesManohla Dargis
Die Another Day is only intermittently entertaining but it's hard not to be a sucker for its charms, or perhaps it's just impossible not to feel nostalgia for movies you grew up with. Read full review
40
Orlando SentinelRoger Moore
In a lot of ways, Die Another Day is a return to Bond's bad-old-days, the early 1980s, when the plots were outlandish and haphazard, the stunts were fake and the whole enterprise was being treated as a cartoon. Read full review
40
The GuardianPeter Bradshaw
Tamahori, director of Along Came a Spider, does a competent, if over-fussy job, but the pace flags in the showdown in Iceland. Read full review
40
Austin ChronicleMarc Savlov
Just doesn't have it. Read full review
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