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I remember when Renny Harlin was a pretty decent director. Of course, that was only for one film, Die Hard 2. Since then, his movies have gone down the hole, fast and hard.

The first two-thirds of this movie was really pretty good. Decent suspense, good acting (especially by Skarsgard, most impressive). But once you find out who's been possessed, the movie is about as serious as "Monty Pyton's Flying Circus". The Monty Python crew probably could have done better, now that I think about it.

This movie had the potential to be something better, but Renny Harlin and the blood-hungry producers ruined it all. A horror movie doesn't need blood to be scary. Want proof? Watch the original Exorcist.

The only reason that this Bond film beats out "The Man with the Golden Gun" is because it doesn't get boring. And it also beats "Die Another Day", because everything was terrible about that Bond movie. Other than that, this is one of the lowest entries in the series.

I have several reasons why I dislike this Bond film, my primary reason being the bad guy. Johnathan Pryce does the best with what he has, he would have made an excellent Bond villan if it weren't for his motivation; being the world's biggest and richest mass-media mogul. I fondly look back on the old Bond films where the bad guys wanted to take over the world. Now, the bad guys only want to broadcast the world being taken over...

Neither of the Bond girls impressed me terribly, Hatcher's acting was stale, and Michelle Yeoh was the exact opposite of all other Bond girls (with the exception of Jinx, whom I dislike even more). Most Bond girls are simply women, connected to the plot, who need help getting out of a bad situation. But apparently the new producers had to break tradition and start making the Bond girls tough in themselves.

All in all, the only saving aspect of this movie was the opening action sequence, where Bond hijacks a nuclear missle, beating the bad guys around the whole way.