James Bond Terribly Summarized (Part 5): Die Another Day and Pierce Brosnan
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Publicado 2020-11-05
Tomorrow Never Dies = adequate
The World Is Not Enough = sure, why not, I guess?
Die Another Day = ???
Pierce Brosnan had an incredible success with GoldenEye, and he was really good in it too. Then I guess someone quite and the couldn't replicate that success. It says something that Martin Campbell has directed the two best Bond films, GoldenEye and Casino Royale. Why can't you keep hiring that guy EON? Instead they hired the guy who made XXX and the movie is exactly as good as you would expect. I want to punch a wall right now.
MI6 agent James Bond infiltrates a North Korean military base where Colonel Tan-Sun Moon is illegally trading weapons for African conflict diamonds. After Moon's right-hand man Zao is contacted by an unknown source who reveals Bond's true identity, Moon attempts to kill Bond and a hovercraft chase ensues, ending with Moon's apparent death. Bond survives but is captured by North Korean soldiers and imprisoned by the Colonel's father, General Moon.
After fourteen months of captivity and torture at the hands of the Korean People's Army, Bond is traded for Zao in a prisoner exchange. He is sedated and taken to meet M, who informs him that his status as a 00 Agent has been suspended under suspicion of having leaked information under duress to the North Koreans. Bond is convinced that he has been set up by a double agent in the British government. After escaping MI6 custody, he discovers that he is in Hong Kong, where he learns from Chang, a Chinese agent and old colleague, that Zao is in Cuba.
In Havana, Bond meets NSA agent Giacinta "Jinx" Johnson. Bond follows her to a gene therapy clinic, where patients can have their appearances altered through DNA restructuring. Bond locates Zao inside the clinic and attempts to kill him, but Zao escapes, leaving behind a pendant which leads Bond to a cache of diamonds, identified as conflict diamonds, but bearing the crest of the company owned by British billionaire businessman Gustav Graves. Bond learns that Graves only appeared a year prior, apparently discovering a vein of diamonds in Iceland leading to his current wealth, celebrity, and philanthropy from its assets.
At Blades Club in London, Bond meets Graves along with his assistant Miranda Frost, who is also an undercover MI6 agent. After a fencing battle, Bond is invited by Graves to Iceland for a scientific demonstration. Shortly afterwards, M tells Bond of MI6's doubts about Graves, restores Bond's Double-0 status and offers assistance in the investigation.
At his ice palace adjacent to the diamond mine site in Iceland, Graves unveils a new orbital mirror satellite, "Icarus", which is able to focus solar energy on a small area and provide year-round sunshine for crop development. Frost seduces Bond and Jinx infiltrates Graves' command centre, but is captured by Graves and Zao. Bond rescues her and discovers that Colonel Tan-Sun Moon is still alive; Moon has used the gene therapy technology to change his appearance, creating the identity of Gustav Graves and amassing his fortune from sale of the conflict diamonds as a cover for his true plans.
Bond confronts Graves, but Frost arrives to reveal herself as the traitor who betrayed Bond in North Korea, forcing Bond to escape from Graves' facility. Bond returns in his Aston Martin V12 Vanquish to rescue Jinx, who has been recaptured in the palace. As Graves uses Icarus to melt the ice palace, Zao pursues Bond into the palace using his Jaguar XKR. Bond kills Zao by causing a giant ice chandelier to fall onto him, and revives Jinx after she has almost drowned.
Bond and Jinx pursue Graves and Frost to the Korean peninsula and stow away on Graves' cargo plane. Graves reveals his identity to his father, and the true purpose of the Icarus satellite: to cut a path through the Korean Demilitarized Zone with concentrated sunlight, allowing North Korean troops to invade South Korea, defeat the United Nations Command forces of both U.S. and South Korean troops, and unite the peninsula under the flag of the DPRK and the Kim family. Horrified that it would result in potentially triggering World War III with the United States, General Moon tries to stop the plan, but Graves murders him.
Bond attempts to shoot Graves, but he is prevented by a soldier. In their struggle, a gunshot pierces the fuselage, causing the plane to descend rapidly. Bond and Graves engage in a fist fight, and Jinx attempts to regain control of the plane. Frost attacks Jinx, forcing her to defend herself in a sword duel. After the plane passes through the Icarus beam and is further damaged, Jinx kills Frost. Graves attempts to escape by parachute, but Bond opens the parachute, pulling Graves out of the plane and into one of its engines, killing him and disabling the Icarus beam. Bond and Jinx escape from the disintegrating plane in a helicopter from the cargo hold, carrying away Graves' stash of diamonds.
Todos los comentarios (17)
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When I was in college my frat had to perform a James bond themed musical for the other Greek organizations. We went to the video store and found this film for 99 cents and I think we paid too much. But it was the perfect bad movie to write a drunk frat musical comedy from. The best part is when the white girl just turns out to be a ninja, also when bond sleeps with Halle Barry after just saying nice view. It was a perfect movie for a bunch of drunk frat boys to get inspired by! Thanks for making this video
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This is the only Bond film I've seen in the theater. I sure can pick 'em.
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Just found your channel. Dalton is my favorite is also! Subscribed and looking forward to checking out all your other videos.
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An hilarious and at times insightful review to an amazing bad movie . . . perfect 10/10
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I'm going to need the link to the postal inspection show
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I love that you in some scenes the Kareen was just screening
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This is the prequel to Swordfish, isn't it?
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the "sponsorships" for this video were great
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Did you know? The best Brosnan Bond movie is a PS2 game
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Die another Day was bad but it's a Bond film so always worth watching if you happen across it on the telly.
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The film really isn't that bad until it gets to Iceland and then everything completely goes off the rails. The 2nd act of Die Another Day is quite possibly the worst of any film in any big budget action franchise.
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the satellite controllers are still burning my face and teeth from satellites
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Casino Royale is better then Goldeneye
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Maybe die another day will die another day..or now because of how trash it is.
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Terrible movie that somehow managed to include everything it needed to trick a generation of teenage boys (like yours truly) into thinking it was good: hovercrafts, sword fight, Halle Berry, spy car, guns AND explosions, you name it
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Yes, terribly summarized. Already years ago, people began to be terribly tired on all this kind of aggressively bashing "reviews", which is the big and mindless cliché among "reviewers" on YT. Try something new, guys.
