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Die Another Day
Die another Day - UK cinema poster.jpg
British cinema poster for Die Another Day, designed by Intralink Film Graphic Design
Directed by Lee Tamahori
Produced by
Written by
Based on James Bond
by Ian Fleming
Starring
Music by David Arnold
Cinematography David Tattersall
Edited by Christian Wagner
Production
company
Distributed by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (US)
20th Century Fox (International)
Release date
  • 20 November 2002 (2002-11-20) (United Kingdom)
  • 22 November 2002 (2002-11-22) ((USA))
Running time
133 minutes
Country United Kingdom
Language English
Budget $142 million
Box office $431,971,116

Die Another Day (2002) is the twentieth spy film in the James Bond series, and the fourth and final film to star Pierce Brosnan as the fictional MI6 agent James Bond. The film follows Bond as he leads a mission to North Korea, during which he is betrayed and, after seemingly killing a rogue North Korean colonel, is captured and imprisoned. Fourteen months later, Bond is released as part of a prisoner exchange. Surmising that someone within the British government betrayed him, he attempts to earn redemption by tracking down his betrayer and killing a North Korean agent he believes was involved in his torture.

Die Another Day, produced by Michael G. Wilson and Barbara Broccoli, and directed by Lee Tamahori, marked the James Bond franchise's 40th anniversary. The series began in 1962 with Sean Connery starring as Bond in Dr. No. Die Another Day includes references to each of the preceding films.

The film received mixed reviews. Some critics praised the work of Lee Tamahori, while others criticised the film's heavy use of computer-generated imagery, which they found unconvincing and a distraction from the film's plot. Nevertheless, Die Another Day was the highest-grossing James Bond film up to that time if inflation is not taken into account.

MI6 officer James Bond—agent 007—infiltrates a North Korean military base, where Colonel Tan-Sun Moon is illegally trading weapons for African blood diamonds. After Moon's assistant Zao discovers that Bond is a British agent, Moon attempts to kill Bond and a hovercraft chase ensues, which ends with Moon's apparent death. Bond survives, but is captured by North Korean soldiers and imprisoned by the Colonel's father, General Moon.


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