Reviews for Die Another Day

The average rating for Die Another Day based on 2 reviews is 2.5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2018-05-21 00:00:00 Gary R Borowski I bought this because I 'needed' it to complete my collection of Brosnan-era novelisations, and then felt compelled to read it. It was actually not too bad; we get a few scenes that didn't make it to the finished film, and a decent stab at explaining some of the less believable moments. The biggest irritant was, as usual, Benson's crutch word, 'quipped'. Bond is the worst offender but other characters are at it too, and, dude, if you have to explain something was a quip, it probably wasn't a very good one.

Review # 2 was written on 2013-10-31 00:00:00 Jill Chalfant Most of the aspects that make Die Another Day a bad film are either absent or at least toned down by Benson in his novelization (of course, that perception could just be due to the fact that reading about some of the more over-the-top details is less jarring than the less-than-impressive green-screen work that induces so many cringes every time I watch the movie). As Benson did with Tomorrow Never Dies and The World is Not Enough, the author comes up with suitably "Bondian" scenes to bridge the gaps between locations, and he also provides some interesting background for some of the main characters (Frost, Moon, and Zao). I get the impression that Benson found the Moon->Graves transformation and rapid rise (huge satellite launch and knighthood in 14 months?!) just as implausible as a lot of the rest of us Bond fans, but that was the screenplay he was given, and he does his best with it. I'm disappointed that Raymond Benson didn't get to stick around longer in his role as a Bond continuation author, but after reading some interviews he's done about his tenure, I can certainly understand why he was a little relieved to be done with it and move on (Benson has said that he was about to ask for a year off when Glidrose/Ian Fleming Publications let him know that they were suspending the continuation novels for a while... six years, as it turned out... ). I think he did an excellent job with his novels, especially given the mandate he was under to blend the literary and film versions of James Bond.