Movie Synopsis: The story begins in the demilitarized zone between North and South Korea with a spectacular high-speed hovercraft chase and continues via Hong Kong to Cuba and London where Bond meets up with the two ladies who are to play such important and differing roles in his quest to unmask a traitor and to prevent a war of catastrophic consequence. Hot on the trail of the principle villains, Bond travels to Iceland where he experiences at first hand the power of an amazing new weapon before a dramatic confrontation with his main adversary back in Korea where it all started...
Now for The Zone's Eye View
By Claire Hoang
Director: Lee Tamahori
Starring: Pierce Brosnan, Halle Berry, Toby Stephens, Rosamund Pike, Rick Yune and Judi Dench
Well it's now Bond's twentieth outing and boy does he do it with a bang! By statistics that's a Bond film every two years for the past forty years!
I could mention all the things that other reviews have mentioned (such as Madonna singing the theme tune and having a cameo role or Halle Berry raising out of the sea 'Ursula Andress' style). I could mention that director Lee Tamahori actually cut his teeth on the Bond franchise by directing a Bond computer game. I could mention the fact that I really don't think Rosamund Pike is glamorous enough to be a Bond girl.
Heck, I could even tell you something about the plot!
I'm not going to.
In honor of the Bond franchise, I am going to instead cite the ten holy commandments of Bond and show how they refer to this film. (In reverse order as you scroll down, it's more fun)
WARNING, it may give away some of the plot!
10) Bond should have to, at some point, wear a tuxedo. (e.g inside enemy Gustav Graves ice palace party)
9) If thou is a woman under the age of thirty, thou shall sleep with Bond regardless of thy marital status..…and the one who gets him gets to keep him until the end. (only until the next film obviously…)
8) Thou shall blow up at least one car within the film. (This does not necessarily mean it has to be his…mind you, it usually is)
7) Thou shall meet some strange foreign person that is definitely pure evil…(Step forward Korean officer Mr Moon)
6) Thou shall meet some strange foreign person that could be good or bad…(Step forward hotel concierge in Hong Kong)
5) Thou shall utter some truly terrible double entendre..('I'm putting it in….it's a perfect fit.') (They're talking about diamonds by the way for the teenagers giggling at the back)
4) Thou shall have to fly to at least three unnecessary exotic and beautiful countries for no reason whatsoever. (In this case Cuba, Iceland and…er Britain)
3) Thou shall mention Bond's education at Oxford at some point. (M15 only take the best you know…)
2) Lasers…
1) Thou shall hear the immortal line uttered by Bond at some point, because hey, it's the most famous introduction in the world. THE NAME IS BOND, JAMES BOND…
