DIE ANOTHER DAY
Forget the tank chase in Goldeneye(if you can), forget the Thames chase in 'The World is not Enough', forget the general nuttiness in 'Live and Let Die' forget the fire engine chase in 'View to a Kill'...any stunt that you have ever seen in a Bond film that you THOUGHT was cool, just forget it.
Brace yourself for what is surely the most spectacular Bond film of all time. By spectacular, I mean non-stop spectacular - this film does not slow down!
The plot is good, Gustav Graves makes a cool bad guy, Jinx = a tasty Bond girl and generally this is definately the best Brosnan Bond at least.
It was good to see a bit of the if-you're-not-going-to-help-then-get-out-of-my-way Bond that turned up in Lisence to Kill near the start. Interesting to see Bond doing deals with Chinese intelligence of all people to help get at Zao.
Someone was talking about there being a vat of Bonds. That's something I've been trying to work out myself. I'll take Connery-Bond dyeing his hair to becoming Moore-Bond in the early 70s.
But to go from Moore to Dalton? That doesn't just require hair dye, that requires MI6 owning a fountain of youth - either that or the Bond who was arund till 1985 is NOT the same guy as the one who turned up afterwards.
I'd love to get an official line on that!
But anyway, I have seen IMDB reviews for 'The Bourne Identity'. I have seen IMDB reviews for XXX. Elements of both seem to say one thing 'Bond should retire' or something along those lines.
I have seen the Bourne Identity. XXX is reviewed elsewhere.
I will say this: Jason Bourne just got cooly blown away.
Xander Cage admittedly did good but stil....
James Bond is not going to retire any time soon(assuming the Powers That Be can get their act together).
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