Plot
James Bond is sent to investigate the connection between a North Korean terrorist and a diamond mogul who is funding the development of an international space weapon.
Release Year: 2002
Rating: 6.0/10 (87,665 voted)
Critic's Score: 56/100
Director:
Lee Tamahori
Stars: Pierce Brosnan, Halle Berry, Rosamund Pike
Storyline Pierce Brosnan gives one last mission as James Bond. Starting off in North Korea, Bond is betrayed and captured. 14 months later, Bond is set free, but traded for Zao who was captured by MI6. When back in his world, Bond sets off to track down Zao. Bond gets caught up in yet another scheme which sends him to millionaire Gustav Graves. Another MI6 agent known as Miranda Frost is also posing as a friend of Graves. Bond is invited to a presentation held by Graves about a satellite found in space which can project a huge laser beam. Bond must stop this madman with a fellow American agent, known as Jinx. Whilst Bond tries to stop Graves and Zao, will he finally reveal who betrayed him?
Writers: Ian Fleming, Neal Purvis
Cast: Pierce Brosnan
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James Bond
Halle Berry
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Jinx Johnson
Toby Stephens
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Gustav Graves
Rosamund Pike
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Miranda Frost
Rick Yune
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Zao
Judi Dench
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M
John Cleese
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Q
Michael Madsen
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Damian Falco
Will Yun Lee
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Colonel Moon
Kenneth Tsang
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General Moon
Emilio Echevarría
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Raoul
Mikhail Gorevoy
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Vlad
(as Michael Gorevoy)
Lawrence Makoare
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Mr. Kil
Colin Salmon
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Charles Robinson
Samantha Bond
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Miss Moneypenny
Filming Locations: Albert R. Broccoli 007 Stage, Pinewood Studios, Iver Heath, Buckinghamshire, England, UK
Box Office Details
Budget: $142,000,000
(estimated)
Opening Weekend: $47,072,040
(USA)
(24 November 2002)
(3314 Screens)
Gross: $431,971,116
(Worldwide)
(1 June 2003)
Technical Specs
Runtime:
Did You Know?
Trivia:
Some location filming took place at 'The Eden Project' near St Austell, Cornwall in the United Kingdom in the first week of March 2002.
Goofs:
Errors in geography:
The Icelandic car number plates shown in the film do not have the correct typeface (they used the same typeface as on British number plates).
Quotes:
[first lines]
Mr. Van Bierk:
[stepping out of helicopter]
Look, what is this? I'm supposed to...
[Bond puts a gun to Mr. Van Bierk's head and takes his sunglasses]
User Review
What on earth have they done to James Bond?
Rating: 1/10
Come back George, all is forgiven: At lease "On Her Majesty's Secret
Service" was recognizable as a Bond film. The latest installment in the
franchise, the 20th installment in fact, should have been a cause for
celebration. Instead, I have to rate it a solid 1, and that only because
the system won't let me rate it lower. When did James Bond morph with
Rambo? What happened to the wit and charm that was evident in the best of
the series, films like 'Goldfinger" and "The Spy Who Loved
Me"?
There is nothing in this film that feels original or fresh. And the John
Woo influenced cinematics have no place in a Bond film. And what's with
the
use of CGI in place of real stuntmen doing the impossible, as they did in
every other film? Sure, it may look "super cool" in concept, but in fact
it
looks fake and out of place. They didn't use CGI to make trucks act like
race cars in "License To Kill".
I'm afraid that on his 40th anniversary, the cinematic James Bond is
looking
every bit his age, dressed up like a 70 year old hustler trying to pick up
teenagers. Forget the snazzy trappings and the flashy action scenes and
get
back to the basics.
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