Die Another Day Critic Reviews

Beginning to creak not only with age but with the strain of constant self-one-upmanship in giving us exotic locales, explosive geopolitics and unbelievable stunts.Read the full review

Dead-on as entertaining eye candy, a bona fide guilty pleasure -- for the first hour. But the movie loses steam and the sequences that dazzled in the beginning get overshadowed by the excesses of later scenes.Read the full review

Perhaps the most satisfying Bond movie since "The Spy Who Loved Me."Read the full review

He thrilled me, then betrayed me in the end.Read the full review

Surely it will not be giving things away to tell you there's absolutely nothing new about the latest episode.Read the full review

This is a train wreck of an action film -– a stupefying attempt by the filmmakers to force-feed James Bond into the mindless "XXX" mold and throw 40 years of cinematic history down the toilet in favor of bright flashes and loud bangs.Read the full review

What's new here is a severe deficit of style, or even craftsmanship, both in the action sequences and what passes for human interludes.Read the full review

The many shots of characters operating devices with remote controls will do little to quiet the complaints that the films have started to resemble video games, and the same can be said of the proliferating digital effects.Read the full review

Die Another Day is only intermittently entertaining but it's hard not to be a sucker for its charms, or perhaps it's just impossible not to feel nostalgia for movies you grew up with.Read the full review