History Film / DieAnotherDay

* UnconventionalVehicleChase: In the pre-credits sequence, Bond and the North Korean arms dealers engage in a hovercraft chase.

* VerbThis: "Read this, bitch!"

* VillainWithGoodPublicity: Gustav Graves is beloved by England, and he knows how to schmooze with the tabloid press. Oddly enough, this causes a plot hole. How did no one notice this man never existed until a few months ago? And how did he accomplish enough to warrant a knighthood in that period? One possibility is that he'd had the resources for the transformation in storage for a long time.

* VisibleInvisibility: Bond's Aston Martin emits a distortion effect.

* GunStripping: Bond is cleaning his pistol in his office when he hears silenced gunshots outside, reassembles his pistol, and goes to see what's afoot. After Robinson is killed, and Bond shoots through M to get her captor, R steps through the furniture to reveal the whole scene has been a VR training session.

* DirtyCommunists: North Korea's military eagerly supports the conquest of Japan and South Korea through Colonel Moon's plan. It's stated at least once that there was a coup by the hardliners before the invasion, presumably to avoid implicating the entire country as [[CardCarryingVillain Card-Carrying Villains]]. Downplayed/averted during the Cuba scenes, even though FidelCastro was still in charge at the time.

* InsecurityCamera: Bond actually discovers a HiddenDoor by looking at a security camera that is pointed straight at an "empty" spot in the wall, and completely blind to the rest of the corridor, making it easy to disable.

* PullTheIV: Bond does this when escaping from the MI6 medical facility.

** The end abruptly jumps to Bond walking in on Moneypenny in her office, where things quickly begin to get steamy... until R shows up wondering why Moneypenny is using his virtual reality machine.

''Die Another Day'' is the twentieh ''Film/JamesBond'' film and the fourth and last to star Creator/PierceBrosnan. It is also the final film set in the original series started by EON Productions with ''Film/DrNo'' in 1962 before getting a ContinuityReboot in ''Film/{{Casino Royale|2006}}''. It was directed by Lee Tamahori and came out in November 2002. Music/{{Madonna}} performed the TitleThemeTune and has a cameo in the film.

Per usual, the film opens with a botched mission in which Bond is betrayed and beaten up: this time, the [[UsefulNotes/NorthKorea North Koreans]] have the honour. Freed via a prisoner exchange after 14 months of torture, Bond is aghast to learn his freedom was purchased at the cost of his adversary, a war criminal named Zao, walking scot-free. Discharged by [[UsefulNotes/SecretIntelligenceService MI6]] and receiving a predictably chilly reception from M, Bond [[ScrewTheRulesImDoingWhatsRight becomes a rogue agent]] and resumes hunting for his quarry.

* PercussiveTherapy: Colonel Tan-Sun Moon is introduced to the audience while beating on a punching bag to work out some frustrations—then the punching bag is unzipped, revealing that he'd stuffed his anger management therapist in there.

** After Bond is reinstated back into MI6 and the base is suddenly attacked. He makes his way through shooting the assailants until he gets to one holding M hostage... so he promptly shoots her to get to the assailant. Q suddenly appears and chastises Bond on his performance while taking off the VR glasses. The whole thing being a training simulator.

* InterrogatedForNothing: Bond is put through a who's who of torture methods, and it's later revealed that he was intentionally given an incomplete briefing by MI6 for his mission, just in case he was captured. They do trade Zao for his return though, which he never expected to happen, and calls them out on.
* InterserviceRivalry: Between MI6 and the NSA, although most of it is on the NSA's part. Toward the climax of the movie M chews out Falco for thinking this way and withholding relevant information, noting that they would have had an easier time [[spoiler:finding Colonel Moon's mole in MI6 had they known that Moon and Miranda Frost had been on the Harvard fencing team together]].

* NotSoAbandonedBuilding: It's revealed that MI6 has taken over a disused (and fictitious) Underground station under the Houses of Parliament.

* OnlyOnePlausibleSuspect: We find out there's a mole inside the MI6 who has, among other things, informed the bad guys who Bond is. Now, obviously the mole can't be Bond himself, nor M or Q or Moneypenny, as they are all mainstays of the franchise. Besides them, there is only one other major MI6 character in the movie, who — surprise, surprise! — does turn out to be the mole.

* ResignationsNotAccepted: MI6 has an "evaluation centre" in the Falkland Islands for keeping agents deemed a danger (which may include those who decide to resign), and M can confine someone there as long as she deems necessary.

* {{Bizarrchitecture}}: The ice palace is made of... ice. Handwaved because it's set in Iceland; it would be cold enough for that to work at least some of the time. Graves melts it to drown Jinx inside. AluminumChristmasTrees: Those kind of buildings [[http://www.icehotel.com/ actually exist.]] However, Iceland is actually not cold enough for such a building to exist for more than a couple of weeks. The winter weather is very erratic and fluctuating, with frequent freeze-thaw-cycles that would ruin an ice building very quickly. Northern Scandinavia is much more amenable to ice buildings, because there they actually have a stable, cold winter climate.
** Graves probably had it built to show off for the Icarus reveal, not as a permenant fixture, he did base [[spoiler: The Graves persona off a shallow version of Bond so an ostentatious Ice palace he felt was righ on the money.]]
* BloodlessCarnage: Miranda gets stabbed through the ''heart'' by Jinx, and yet we don't see any blood emerge from the wound.

--->'''Bond''': [[WhatDoesThisButtonDo Does this still work?]] ''[switches the jetpack on]''

-->'''Graves''': You see, I have a gift. An instinct for sensing people's weaknesses. Yours is women. Hers and mine are winning, whatever the cost.

-->'''Colonel Moon''': I know all about the UN. I studied at Oxford and Harvard. ''Majored in Western hypocrisy''.

-->'''Patient''': What the hell do you want? I don't need a goddamn wheelchair.
-->'''Bond''': No?

-->'''Bond''': You do now.

-->'''Miranda''': I can read your every move!\\
'''Jinx''': ''(Stabs her in the chest, complete with The Art of War)'' Read ''this''! '''Bitch'''!

* MagicPlasticSurgery: So magical it even allows you [[spoiler:to switch racial groups]]. Also apparently involves LegoGenetics as it's mentioned to be some form of "gene therapy."
* MajoredInWesternHypocrisy: Colonel Moon, the TropeNamer.

* OnlyOnePlausibleSuspect: There's only one major character who could plausibly be revealed to be the [=MI6=] mole, which is exactly what happens.

* PoorlyDisguisedPilot: In addition to being a celebration of the series' fortieth anniversary, the producers wanted ''Die Another Day'' to set up a new series starring Jinx. As it turned out though, the mixed reception of this film combined with the catastrophic reaction to ''Film/{{Catwoman}}'' killed off any chance of the ''Jinx'' series taking off.

* IHaveNoSon: [[spoiler:Col. Moon]]/Graves [[spoiler:attempts to explain his EvilPlan to his father General Moon, telling how the Icaru could be used to destroy the Korean Demilitarized Zone, allowing renegade North Korean soldiers to invade and occupy South Korea. But his father, who had hopes of having a peaceful reunion of the two Koreas and hoped his son would act as a bridge between North Korea and the West, simply disowns him by telling that his son died the day he plunged into the waterfall, having realized and ashamed the cold-blooded monster his son has now become. This causes Graves/Moon to kill him out of anger, only for 007 to kill him in rage]].

Overall reception was, put generously, mixed to negative. EON productions then decided a reboot of the series was needed to bring it back to its more grounded DarkerAndGrittier roots even going back to [[Literature/CasinoRoyale the very first]] ''Bond'' novel. Despite being in his early 50s at the time, Pierce Brosnan was still anticipated to reprise the role (Creator/RogerMoore played Bond till he was 57). However, in February 2005, Brosnan felt he was done with the character and in October of that year, Creator/DanielCraig was officially announced as his replacement.

* {{Foreshadowing}}: The body-altering technology in Cuba, and the [[ItsPersonal savage ferocity]] with which Gustav Graves attacks Bond in their duel.

The film holds many vignettes to previous Bond outings, such as Brosnan playing the 'loose cannon' in the tropics (''Film/LicenceToKill''), Halle Berry [[SexySurfacingShot exiting the water]] in SlowMotion (''Film/DrNo''), a diamond-encrusted sky laser (''Film/DiamondsAreForever''), action scenes bordering on self-parody (''Film/{{Moonraker}}'') and many, ''many'' more {{Mythology Gag}}s for [[MilestoneCelebration the franchise's 40th anniversary]]. Overall reception was, put generously, mixed to negative. EON productions then decided a reboot of the series was needed to bring it back to its more grounded DarkerAndGrittier roots even going back to [[Literature/CasinoRoyale the very first]] ''Bond'' novel. Despite being in his early 50s at the time, Pierce Brosnan was still anticipated to reprise the role (Creator/RogerMoore played Bond till he was 57). However, in February 2005, Brosnan felt he was done with the character and in October of that year, Creator/DanielCraig was officially announced as his replacement.

The film holds many vignettes to previous Bond outings, such as Brosnan playing the 'loose cannon' in the tropics (''Film/LicenceToKill''), Halle Berry [[SexySurfacingShot exiting the water]] in SlowMotion (''Film/DrNo''), a diamond-encrusted sky laser (''Film/DiamondsAreForever''), action scenes bordering on self-parody (''Film/{{Moonraker}}'') and many, ''many'' more {{Mythology Gag}}s for [[MilestoneCelebration the franchise's 40th anniversary]].

Is preceded by ''Film/TheWorldIsNotEnough''.

->''"So you live to die another day..."''

The film opens with a botched mission in which Bond is betrayed and beaten up. This time, the [[UsefulNotes/NorthKorea North Koreans]] get the honour. Freed via a prisoner exchange after 14 months of torture, Bond is aghast to learn his freedom was purchased at the cost of his adversary, a war criminal named Zao, walking scot-free. Discharged by [[UsefulNotes/SecretIntelligenceService MI6]] and receiving a predictably chilly reception from M, Bond [[ScrewTheRulesImDoingWhatsRight becomes a rogue agent]] and resumes hunting for his quarry.

* ConspicuousCG: There's more of this here than perhaps in any other Bond entry. Particularly jarring examples of this include the firing of the Icarus laser upon the Ice Palace, the final confrontation on Graves' plane, the invisibility feature of Bond's Aston Martin, and the infamous wave-surfing scene as Bond tries to outrun a massive wave (the fact that live surfing was utilized in the film's opening scene without the use of any CG makes this even worse for some).

* EvilAlbino: Zao for most of the second act.

* ColdNameMole: Miranda Frost betrays James Bond and MI6 after Graves bought her out with an Olympic gold medal.

* OnlyOnePlausibleSuspect: There's only one major character who could plausibly be revealed to be the MI6 mole, which is exactly what happens.