10 Incredible Action Scenes In Terrible Movies
9. Bond Vs. North Korea - Die Another Day
Die Another Day sadly brought Pierce Brosnan's hit-and-miss tenure as 007 to an unceremoniously woeful end, over-indulging in silly action, corny one-liners, and inane plotting to the point that it basically became a parody of itself.
It's especially disappointing as the film's pre-titles sequence promises a considerably better and more serious-minded movie, with James Bond facing off against a rogue North Korean army colonel, Tan-Sun Moon (Will Yun Lee), and his seemingly never-ending fleet of goons.
The sequence shows Bond outnumbered in a way we've rarely seen before, forced to combine tech gadgetry with his scrappy cunning to blow up the base, hijack a hovercraft, and start chasing Moon.
It's a scene packed with ludicrously, explosively entertaining action beats, most of it achieved practically in stark contrast to the rest of the movie, before climaxing with a most unexpected result - Bond being captured.
When you start your movie with Bond outmanoeuvring a giant flamethrower and using an Uzi to detonate mines, while piloting a hovercraft no less, you better have something insane ready to follow up.
Sadly Die Another Day didn't, and once Madonna's title track starts up it all goes irretrievably downhill.