The laser chases Bond over the cliff of a glacier in a high-tech snowmobile.
From there, things only get progressively worse.
Of course, Bond survives the madness.
Custom Image by Zanda Rice
However, the surfing sequence symbolizes everything wrong that the franchise had become up to that point.
Brosnan portrayed a decent James Bond.
His debut entry as the character,GoldenEye, remains one ofthe stronger franchise efforts and debuts.
But this particular stunt was downright obnoxious.
By comparison, take the snowboarding sequence inA View to a Kill.
That works considerably better than the tsunami surfing sequence here.
The CG rendering of the tidal wave and the ice looks poor and ineffectively executed.
Brosnan as Bond is not well-integrated within that environment.
Action scenes in CG-animated movies have looked far superior and more authentic.
It looked less like a hyper-realistic action scene and more like a bad video game cutscene.
The scene did not functionally work, andit signaled that the Bond franchise needed to change.
Bond was no longer a blunt instrument for the British government, and he morphed into a one-dimensional superhero.
Image via Sony Pictures Releasing
The reboot granted the franchisea much-needed reset.
Unfortunately, the franchise got away from him in terms of itsoverly outlandish plots and storytelling.
Die Another Dayis available to rent on Prime Video in the U.S.
