Synopsis: Whilst on a mission in Korea Bond is captured and held for over a year, until he is finally traded for a terrorist that has been caught by MI6. Whilst on his next mission Bond learns that the Korean terrorist group are involved with the discovery of a mystery space satellite with a laser pointing directly at earth.

Description: Pierce Brosnan is joined by Halle Berry in his final stint as 007.

Review: Another rather American-esque Bond movie Die Another Day is thankfully Pierce Brosnan’s final go at playing the legendary James Bond. I heard him once described as “preposterous”, Bond I mean, and I always thought that was an unfair label.

For forty years Bond was an incredibly predictable but still effortlessly stylish, sexy and impressive figure,  but Brosnan spoils the whole thing for me. And it’s not that I don’t like Pierce Brosnan, providing he’s not taking himself too seriously he pulls off some fantastic, funny and often very tongue in cheek roles. Bond, however, is not one of them.

This particular movie is better than most of them, the villains seem to be harking back to the traditional Bond baddies, including the slightly dodgy cultural stereotypes, but it works – it’s what you expect from a Bond movie. That is probably the most praise that this film can be given however, it does precisely what you expect it to, it doesn’t push any boundaries or have any particularly impressive visual effects, but it does have a fairly handsome British man running around with a gun, a beautiful girl and a villain with a ridiculously over-the-top weapon. If nothing else this film reminds you why all these things are massive clichés these days, when Connery was doing it in the 50’s it was different, Hell it was sexy, Brosnan however just looks a little bit like your Dad playing out his own secret agent fantasy, but with a shopping budget your Mum would kill for.

Thankfully Daniel Craig’s Bond follows on the tail of Die Another Day and Casino Royale does push boundaries and shake things up; it’s a shocking comparison to make but Craig has mastered the role in one film that poor preposterous Bronsan wasn’t able to do in four.