Review – Die Another Day

Nah, that’s okay. Go ahead and die now if you feel like it. As bad as death sucks, it can’t be much worse than this script. All the usual Bond elements are here: implausible action, implausible gadgets, implausible sex, and plenty of gratuitous explosions. The effects are good, obviously much better than the older episodes in the series. But the plot – some muddled mess about using a space laser to blow up mines in Korea’s DMZ – leaves something to be desired. And while I concede the dialogue in these things has never exactly been Shakespeare, this time around it’s exceptionally bad. Or maybe I’m just getting too old for Bond flicks. I’m certainly old enough to resent the inclusion of “London Calling” on the soundtrack, though perhaps if I even vaguely thought it was intended to be ironic I’d be more tolerant. And finally, I know the Bond series is under pressure to respond to Vin Diesel and all, but really the NSA stuff – not to mention the surf commandos – was a bit ill-conceived. See if desperate