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Bond is captured by North Korean soldiers and imprisoned by the Colonel's father, General Moon. After fourteen months of captivity and torture at the hands of the Korean People's Army, Bond is traded for Zao in a prisoner exchange across the Bridge of No Return.
Synopsis. MI6 agent James Bond (Pierce Brosnan) infiltrates a North Korean military base (he hijacks a helicopter that was supposed to be delivering diamonds to the base, in exchange for weaponry.
What follows is a hovercraft chase over mined terrain between Bond and Colonel Moon. The chase concludes when Bond causes Moon to get trapped on the hovercraft's fan and flying it off a waterfall, to Moon's apparent doom. Bond is shown surviving it, by hanging onto a bell of a small temple.
Nov 18, 2002 · Synopsis. In North Korea, Bond kills Colonel Moon, who is trading weapons for African blood diamonds, and disfigures Moon’s henchman Zao in the process. Bond is captured and spends 14 months in prison before being exchanged for Zao, who had been captured by the British.
- Darren Franich
- Before we get too heavy here, the most important thing to keep in mind when you’re regarding Die Another Day is that the film is fast. It moves so quickly that it’s impossible to ever get bored; plot points are introduced, twisted, reach fruition, and then immediately discarded.
- Ever since roughly the mid-70s, when it suddenly dawned on the Bond producers that their film series could be read as, well, a teensy bit misogynist, there have always been attempts to redefine the Bond Girl archetype into something like an actual equal.
- And not to get weird here, but their first sex scene is actually quite interesting. Jinx is explicitly set up as the aggressor: She aggressively flirts with Bond, while Brosnan stares out at the waves and seems to be thinking about quail’s eggs.
- Early in the movie, there’s a hovercraft chase scene. This seemed stupid at the time, because hovercrafts are the stupidest vehicles ever made, but it plays out as a farce now — especially because at one point, someone on one hovercraft uses a flamethrower to hit the other hovercraft.
Sep 28, 2021 · The infamous invisible car of Die Another Day proved to be something of a turning point for James Bond 007. The before and after of the 20th James Bond film, Die Another Day, worked out really rather well for those making it.
“Die Another Day” is the 20th Bond film in 40 years, not counting “Casino Royale.” Midway through it, Bond’s boss M tells him, “While you were away, the world changed.” She refers to the months he spent imprisoned at the hands of North Korean torturers, but she might also be referring to the world of Bondian thrillers.
