Pierce Brosnan as James Bond in Die Another day
Summary James Bond director Lee Tamahori defends Die Another Day's controversial sci-fi gadgets. Released in 2002, Die Another Day marks actor Pierce Brosnan's final time playing 007. The film, which also stars Halle Berry and Rosamund Pike, follows Bond as he attempts to take down an eccentric diamond mogul who plans to use the Icarus, a solar-powered satellite, to start a war between North and South Korea.
"One of the things I never knew about the Bond franchise is that … everything that's in the Bond movies, anything gadget, everything that's used, cars, and machine guns, and invisible cars. I know there's been a lot of controversial comments around the invisible car, but it's all based on scientific reality. These things have been made.
Did Die Another Day Stray Too Far Into Sci-Fi? Pierce Brosnan's Final James Bond Movie Missed The Mark While Die Another Day's gadgets may have been based on real technology, invisible cars and a satellite using sun-powered laser beams to melt an ice castle do still feel quite far-fetched, even 20 years later. It's not these elements on their own, however, that were Die Another Day's biggest problem, but rather how they fit into the film as a whole.
A little bit of ridiculousness has always been a part of the Bond movie formula, but Die Another Day takes the franchise too far into fiction. A key action sequence, for example, sees Bond surfing a giant tsunami wave in Iceland, and the entire scene just doesn't look at all real.
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