: Die Another Day
Very good James Bond film, but overlong at 2.5 hours. It starts out as a darker Bond, but doesn’t sustain that, which is probably for the best. Unfortunately, the film feels a little divided into two parts — sad and fun — as a result. Otherwise this Bond has everything you want in a Bond film: action, humor, gorgeous women, and cool gadgets. What surprised me the most was the shockingly poor use of green screen in a few scenes (the hovercraft scene at the beginning and some later scenes with Berry and Brosnan flying). The out-of-focus backdrops look like TV from the 1980’s! I can’t imagine this was cost-cutting — this is a big budget Bond movie. Besides, get rid of just one of those 5,000 cars they blow up and it would pay for better green screen. I assume it’s just incompetence, which is almost as bad. While many special effects were very well done, a few — especially the digital airplane at the end — were badly done. The airplane breaking up looked really fake. That’s too bad, because script-wise, this was a better film, but I was distracted by all the bad special effects.
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