History Film / DieAnotherDay

[[TheOneWith The one with]] the invisible car.

As per usual for 007, the film opens with a botched mission in which Bond is betrayed and beaten up; This time, the North Koreans get the honor. Freed after 14 months of torture via a prisoner exchange, Bond is aghast to learn his freedom was purchased at the cost of his adversary, a war criminal named Zao, walking off scot free. Discharged by [=M16=] and receiving a predictably chilly reception from M ("Why didn't you take your cyanide?"), Bond becomes a rogue agent and resumes hunting for his quarry.

The film holds many vignettes to previous Bond outings, such as Brosnan playing the 'loose cannon' in the tropics (''Film/LicenceToKill''), Halle Berry exiting the water in slow-mo (''Film/DrNo''), a diamond-encrusted sky laser (''Film/DiamondsAreForever''), and action scenes bordering on the self-parody (''Film/{{Moonraker}}'').

[[TheOneWith The one with]] the invisible car.

* TheOneWith: The one with the invisible car.

* BeautyIsNeverTarnished: Subverted when Bond is released by the Koreans looking like he'll shout "[[CastAway WILSON!]]". In truth it is downplayed in that he's in remarkably good shape for someone who's endured 14 months of imprisonment and torture.

* ColdBloodedTorture: Suggested that Bond endured one of these in the very trippy opening sequence.

* FallingChandelierOfDoom: Zao is impaled beneath stupidly-large chandelier made of diamonds and icicles. (You don't get much more pwned than that.)

* {{Irony}}: Bond being tortured by a beautiful Korean female officer. Take that you decadent Western womanizer!

* EvilIsDeathlyCold: The film's second half is full of ice motifs, even taking place in ''Ice''land in a literal ice palace. Incidentally, this is the first hint that [[spoiler:Miranda Frot]] is going to be trouble.

[[TheOneWith The one with]] the invisible car.

The film holds many vignettes to previous Bond outings, such as Brosnan playing the 'loose cannon' in the tropics (''License to Kill''), Halle Berry exiting the water in slow-mo (''Dr. No''), a diamond-encrusted sky laser (''Diamonds Are Forever''), and action scenes bordering on the self-parody (''Moonraker'').

[[TheOneWith The one with]] the invisible car.

* LeaningOnTheFourthWall: "New watch - this'll be your twentieth, I believe?"

-->'''Q:''' Here's the manual, should be able to shoot through that in a couple of hours.
-->''[shotguns fire, confetti rains]''
-->'''Bond:''' [[BondOneLiner Just took a few seconds]], Q.

* VillainWithGoodPublicity: Gustav Graves is beloved by England.

* ChandelierOfDoom: Zao is impaled beneath stupidly-large chandelier made of diamonds and icicles. (You don't get much more pwned than that.)

* FallingChandelierOfDoom: Zao is killed by one.

* DeathByLookingUp

The 20th ''Film/JamesBond'' film, starring PierceBrosnan in his last appearance as the character (second to last if you count the surprisingly good, in-continuity video game ''EverythingOrNothing'', in which he does the voice-acting).

* TheScrappy: Jinx.

As per usual these days, the film opens with a botched mission in which Bond is betrayed and beaten up; This time, the North Koreans get the honor. Freed after 14 months of torture via a prisoner exchange, Bond is aghast to learn his freedom was purchased at the cost of his adversary, a war criminal named Zao, walking off scot free. Discharged by [=M16=] and receiving a predictably chilly reception from M ("Why didn't you take your cyanide?"), Bond becomes a rogue agent and resumes hunting for his quarry.

The 20th ''Film/JamesBond'' film, starring PierceBrosnan in his last appearance as the character (second to last if you count the surprisingly good, in-continuity video game ''EverythingOrNothing'', in which he does the voice-acting). After Bond is captured during an operation in North Korea and subjected to 14 months of torture, he is exchanged for a high ranking "military official" (a.k.a. terrorist). This sets off a chain of events where Bond goes on a vendetta against said official.

** In the training sim, Bond refers to the virtual M's seemingly fatal wounding as [[Series/MontyPythonAndTheHolyGrail "just a flesh wound"]] to [[Creator/JohnCleese Q]].

* KissMeIAmVirtual: At the end of the movie, Moneypenny is caught experimenting with a pair of VR goggles...

* RedRightHand: Zao has diamonds embedded in his face.