History Film / DieAnotherDay

* ArtisticTitle: An extremely kinky version in the opening credits, where Bond is being tortured in the background while naked chicks made of ice, fire and electricity are writhing around in the foreground.

* RealityEnsues: Say what you will about the second half of the movie, the early parts are surprisingly realistic. After getting made by Colonel Moon, Bond chases him down and off a cliff. He's then captured by the North Korean forces. Bond finds himself disavowed by MI-6 and proves utterly unable to break out on his own. He is only allowed to get back to his people when M trades him with a high-ranking terrorist, and even then M still refuses to send him back to the field, instead locking him up for a thorough screening program lest he be turned.
** A side effect of the MagicPlasticSurgery that turned [[spoiler:Colonel Moon]] into Gustav Graves is that he's now an insomniac, and thus must spend an hour each day in a REM machine to keep himself sane.

* ArtisticLicenseSports: Miranda Frost is described as having won the gold medal in fencing at the 2000 Sydney UsefulNotes/OlympicGames by default, after the real gold medalist's death by drug overdose. While said substances fit a medal revoking transgression, the fact it involves death screws any veracity: either the original gold drugged herself to death before the podium, or died in the 2 years before the film's events - when the International Olympic Committee only strips medals based on the on-site drug tests, or the infractor's own admittance (such as Marion Jones).

* AluminumChristmasTrees: The Ice Hotel.

* ArtisticLicenceSports: Miranda Frost is described as having won the gold medal in fencing at the 2000 Sydney UsefulNotes/OlympicGames by default, after the real gold medalist's death by drug overdose. While said substances fit a medal revoking transgression, the fact it involves death screws any veracity: either the original gold drugged herself to death before the podium, or died in the 2 years before the film's events - when the International Olympic Committee only strips medals based on the on-site drug tests, or the infractor's own admittance (such as Marion Jones).

* ArtisticLicenceAwards: Miranda Frost is described as having won the gold medal in fencing at the 2000 Sydney UsefulNotes/OlympicGames by default, after the real gold medalist's death by drug overdose. While said substances fit a medal revoking transgression, the fact it involves death screws any veracity: either the original gold drugged herself to death before the podium, or died in the 2 years before the film's events - when the International Olympic Committee only strips medals based on the on-site drug tests, or the infractor's own admittance (such as Marion Jones).

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

* ArtisticLicenseAwards: Miranda Frost is described as having won the gold medal in fencing at the 2000 Sydney UsefulNotes/OlympicGames by default, after the real gold medalist's death by drug overdose. While said substances fit a medal revoking transgression, the fact it involves death screws any veracity: either the original gold drugged herself to death before the podium, or died in the 2 years before the film's events - when the International Olympic Committee only strips medals based on the on-site drug tests, or the infractor's own admittance (such as Marion Jones).

* ArtisticLicenseBiology: The "DNA replacement therapy" manages to top the dubious scientific accuracy of ''Film/{{Moonraker}}'', the explanation given by the doctor in charge of it being a textbook example of LegoGenetics.

* GentlemanSnarker: This is Bond's default setting, but Gustav Graves knows it's just a performance: "The unjustifiable swagger, the crass quips, the self-defense mechanisms concealing such inadequacy."

* PointDefenseless: The Icarus is programmed to automatically target and destroy incoming missiles. When Vlad tells Graves of the anti-satellite missile launched at Icarus, he isn't worried at all and just lets Icarus do its thing. It was only one missile.

* SolarPoweredMagnifyingGlass: The Icarus is essentially this, being one large mirror with a center focusing array to concentrate the light into a single, extremely hot beam.

* TooDumbToLive: Colonel Moon's jeweler, who continues to examine the diamonds brought to the base by a disguised Bond after Moon has ''blown up'' Bond's chopper and while the entire base is scrambling to evacuate the illegal weapons from the scene. It doesn't end well for him when Bond blows the C4 hidden among the diamonds.

* DarkerAndEdgier: The intro, bordering on NightmareFuel. For the first time, the intro is used to advance the film's story rather than just hint at its theme. We get various scenes of Bond's torture, which includes waterboarding and beatings, and those customary silhouettes of nubile women aren't titillating Bond, they're either participating in the torture, soothing him, or might just be hallucinations that he's having.

''Die Another Day'' is the twentieth ''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 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.

* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: When Graves invites the fencing instructor to bet on his duel with Bond, she says sarcastically, "I'm not into cock fights." This could be understood as referring to the blood sport between roosters, or her outright calling it a dick-measuring contest.

''Die Another Day'' is the twentieth ''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.

Preceded by ''Film/TheWorldIsNotEnough''.

* FrickinLaserBeams: Bond fights Mr Kil in a room full of out-of-control lasers slicing everything up. It's pretty insane and even if impractical, but it's a pretty [[RuleOfCool good visual]].

* YourCheatingHeart: [[spoiler:Miranda sleeps with Bond despite being in a relationship with Graves. However, it's clear that Graves and Miranda had agreed that she should seduce Bond as an effective way to manipulate him: after TheReveal, Graves sneers that he's identified Bond's weakness for women and weaponized even Miranda's sex.]]

* ColdBloodedTorture: In the opening sequence, we see Bond repeatedly getting his head shoved into a bucket of ice water, stung with scorpions, and beaten. When the sequence concludes and the movie begins, the caption tells us that Bond has endured this treatment for over a year. Once rescued, we overhear someone talking about what else James went through: he'd be injected with poison and then his torturers would watch the poison take affect for some indeterminate amount of time before injecting the antidote. Multiple times.

* PoorlyDisguisedPilot: In addition to being a celebration of the series' fortieth anniversary, the producers wanted the film 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.

* BrokenAce: Gustav Graves is charming, talented, and insanely rich (from blood diamonds). However, he is really a North Korean with plastic surgery building a KillSat to help his faction finally win the war. He has daddy issues too, and really really hates anything Western. He admits to having based the Graves persona partly on Bond.

* CorporateConspiracy: Gustav Graves, a billionaire diamond magnate who [[spoiler:built his fortune illegally laundering blood diamonds]] in order to fund a huge space project: a [[KillSat solar satellite]] that he can use to [[spoiler:cut a path through the Korean DMZ, allowing North Korea to launch an invasion of South Korea]].

** Bond breaks out of [=MI6=] custody and casually enters a luxury hotel, getting himself a suite, a shower, a shave, and some nice suits, similar to how in ''Film/TheRock'', John Patrick Mason (played by former Bond Creator/SeanConnery) escapes from the FBI's custody and makes his way to a luxury hotel to go for those same things.

** During the climax on the plane when Graves throws out one of the parachutes is very similar to the climax in ''Film/AirForceOne'' when Egor Korshunov throws out the last parachute out the plane before fighting Marshall. Had Bond said, "Get off this plane," it would be cooler.

* HappyEndingMassage: At the Chinese hotel, a masseuse is sent to Bond, compliments of the management. Bond starts making the moves on her, causing her to remark that she "isn't that kind of masseuse." Bond replies that he "isn't that kind of customer," [[SubvertedTrope then reaches down and grabs the gun strapped to her thigh]]. She's actually been sent to spy on him by the management, who are hiding behind a mirror in the room.

* ColdBloodedTorture: In the opening sequence, we see Bond repeatedly getting his head shoved into a bucket of ice water, stung with scorpions, and beaten, all for the guards' amusement. When the sequence concludes and the movie begins, the caption tells us that Bond has endured this treatment for over a year. Once rescued, we overhear someone talking about what else James went through: he'd be injected with poison and then his torturers would watch the poison take affect for some indeterminate amount of time before injecting the antidote. Multiple times.

* MasterSwordsman: Yes, he's James Bond. No, it's unlikely that either his military or his [=MI6=] training including anything on using several different types of longswords. The same can be said for Gustav Graves, who, despite having a [[KnifeNut fencing instructor]] around, would not have learned anything useful about heavy sabres, katanas, hand-and-a-halfs, etc. As above, what Miranda Frost would actually be good at, Olympic fencing, has very little inherently to do with battle-grade weapons.