The 20th Bond film and celebrates the 40th anniversary of the Bond films. 2002. Director: Lee Tamahori.
Bond (Pierce Brosnan) leads a small team to infiltrate a North Korean military base. Bond pretends to be a diamond smuggler who buy weapons for African conflict diamonds. He's unfortunately revealed as oo7 by Tan-Son Moon (Will Yun Lee).
After surviving and letting Moon fall with a hovercraft from a hill cliff, Bond is taken prisoner by Moon's father (Kenneth Tsang) and is tortured. Fourteen months later, MI6 let the Koreans have the very dangerous Zao (Rick Yune) to free Bond.
Bond is held as some sort of prisoner, but maybe more patient, by MI6. He's been tortured by poison and other things and MI6 wants to make him healthy again. He's no longer an 00-agent because M and the MI6 fears that he may have told the Koreans things during the torture.
He escapes and starts looking for Zao who must be caught to any price. He travel to Cuba where he's told that Zao is staying at a hospital at an island. He also meet a woman who calls herself Jinx (Halle Berry).
Bond finds Zao but the villain escapes after a fight. But Bond took a necklace from Zao right before the fight when Zao seemed to be asleep. In the necklace, there was some diamonds. Bond's contact man on Cuba identifies the diamonds as conflict diamonds.
The diamonds leades Bond to the British billionaire Gustav Grape (Toby Stephens). Grape is very mysterious and so is his assistant Miranda Frost (Rosamund Pike). But Miranda is really an agent for MI6, investigating Grape.
She tells M that Grape isn't bad at all, after investigating for a long time. But M trusts Bond who sees Grape as the number-one suspect. The only question is what Grape's plan is. Bond must find out and stop Grape before he run out of time!
This Bond film is just too much, in too many scenes. It's entertaining, but that's not the only thing important in a movie. Halle Berry isn't very good, not Rick Yune or Rosamund Pike either. Not good.
The car chase at Iceland is really just TOO MUCH! It's simply bad. This is the kind of Bond film that you can see when you don't want much more than action.
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