Ranking EVERY James Bond Henchman From Worst To Best
25. Miranda Frost (Die Another Day, 2002)
She wasn’t the first treacherous British intelligence agent encountered in the franchise, nor would she be the last, but for what it’s worth, Miranda Frost is probably the best aspect of a stunningly weak Bond film.
Frost is essentially the only character in Die Another Day who isn’t either astoundingly ridiculous, absurdly over-the-top, hilariously useless, or infuriatingly cheesy - and that includes Bond himself.
Somewhere amongst all the gobsmacking terribleness in the film’s runtime is buried the revelation that the British agent Frost was in fact a traitor that caused Bond to be imprisoned in North Korea for 18 months.
She’d also turned the tables on the infamously chauvinistic spy by using their prior time in bed together as a chance to empty his famous Walther PPK - and that’s not a euphemism.
As played by Rosamund Pike, Frost’s smart and sexy villainess provides a much-needed measure of cinematic enjoyment in a barren wasteland of absurdity. When she’s on the screen, chances are that viewers at least aren’t burying their faces in their hands out of embarrassment.
Granted, even she can’t save the anvil-subtle “sex for dinner, death for breakfast” line, and she suffers the dishonour of getting killed by one of the worst Bond Girls of all time - but nobody’s perfect. Regardless, the icy (get it?) femme fatale double agent proves to be a Frosty thorn in 007’s side.