I enjoy the suave, sophisticated character of James Bond embodied by Pierce Brosnan. He has carried on admirably for his predecessors, Sean Connery, as his prototype. This movie concerns the instability between North and South Korea, and the fire keg that is waiting to erupt. Bond is captured, interrogated, tortured, and left to fend for himself, for even as he has a license to kill, his identity is secret, hence Secret Agent Man. Bond engages the bad men and women, and as usual kills with impunity. Even when he kills you, it is a work of art, nothing simplistic, everything bigger and badder. I listened to the sound track for Die Another Day, and realized that it was Madonna. When there are so many chanteuses who are talented, why pick Madonna to slaughter a song that required a real songtress, sort of in the genre of Gold Finger, now there is a woman who can sing. They bested this mistake by giving her a gratuitous part, and she proves once again that acting is not her forte. To add pain and suffering they cast Halle Barry as Jinx, a cartoon character who is wooden in her delivery, and amateurish in her approach to her characters motivation. The English women was miscast as the traitor. Halle Barry would have been the better choice, this would then have left Bond with a real actor and heroine. Certainly, Halle Barry has the name recognition, but what do we want to see, flesh or talent, you be the judge.