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Article: `Die Another Day'.
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- The Orlando Sentinel (Orlando, FL)
- Article date:
- November 19, 2002
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Byline: Roger Moore
Forty years and 20 (official) films into the run, James Bond's bag of tricks is pretty much empty. Madonna can sing "I'm gonna avoid the cliche" in the techno title tune. Fat chance. It's all variations on a weary theme as "Die Another Day," the latest and least of the Pierce Brosnan Bonds, proves.
In a lot of ways, "Die Another Day" is a return to Bond's bad-old-days, the early 1980s, when the plots were outlandish and haphazard, the stunts were fake and the whole enterprise was being treated as a joke.
That isn't what was intended. They were shooting for a goofy tribute to Bond's storied past. There are gadgets from half a ...