Die Another Day

Die Another Day
Die Another Day film poster
James Bond	Pierce Brosnan
Also starring	Halle Berry Will Yun Lee Toby Stephens Rosamund Pike Rick Yune Judi Dench
Directed by	Lee Tamahori
Produced by	Barbara Broccoli, Michael G. Wilson, Anthony Waye
Novel/Story by	Neal Purvis Robert Wade
Screenplay	Neal Purvis Robert Wade
Cinematography by	David Tattersall
Music by	David Arnold
Main theme	Die Another Day
Composer	Madonna Mirwais Ahmadzaï
Performer	Madonna
Editing by	Christian Wagner
Distributed by	USA Theatrical and Worldwide DVD/Video Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Non-USA Theatrical 20th Century Fox
Released	November 22, 2002
Running time	133 min.
Budget	$142,000,000
Worldwide gross	$431,971,116
Preceded by	The World Is Not Enough (1999)
Followed by	Casino Royale (2006)
IMDb • Allmovie

Die Another Day (2002) is the twentieth spy film in the James Bond series, and the fourth and last to star Pierce Brosnan as the fictional MI6 agent James Bond. In the pre-title sequence, Bond leads a mission to North Korea, during which he is found out and, after killing a rogue North Korean colonel, he is captured and imprisoned. More than a year later, Bond is released as part of a prisoner exchange, and he follows a trail of clues in an effort to earn redemption by finding his betrayer and learning the intentions of billionaire Gustav Graves, who turns out to be the same colonel he supposedly killed. Bond pursues the colonel to stop him from using a satellite to reignite the war between North and South Korea.

Die Another Day, produced by Michael G. Wilson and Barbara Broccoli, and directed by Lee Tamahori, is the 20th film in the series and marks the franchise's 40th anniversary (begun in 1962 with Sean Connery starring in Dr. No). It includes references to each of the preceding films and also alludes to several Bond novels.

The film received mixed reviews—some critics praised Lee Tamahori's work on the film, while others pointed out the damage caused to the plot by the excessive use of CGI. In spite of its flaws, it became the highest grossing James Bond film to that date. It was distributed by MGM themselves in North America, and internationally through 20th Century Fox.