Bond

The new James Bond film Die Another Day is one of the best in the whole series, I think, if you leave out the final third of the movie. It starts out gritty, old fashioned in a cold war way and sexy (and I'm not just talking Brosnan, although he's looking better and better as he ages. Not bad for a Meath man.) but loses a bit of its power when the pyrotechnics take over the ice palace and things become... well, silly, as you'd expect in the modern Bond film. One day there will be a director who has the guts to see it through till the end. And he'll be fired. Some of the action's fantastic. A long fencing scene in particular, took me right back to Scaramouche. Sex with Halle looks good. Sex with the other girl... was cut. Awww, c'mon! Can't we just give these films a higher rating? Anyway... The opening thingy (always forget what they're called) over Madonna's song is so good you almost forget what a crappy song it is. The bit of 'London Calling' was very cool. I'll definitely go see it again on the big screen. Unfortunately, the film won't be released in Holland till January, because they think it might suffer from Harry Potter and LOTR in December.