• MI6 Data Stream – Trivia track with seamless integration to 19 behind the scenes featurettes 
  
• Audio Commentary 1: Featuring Lee Tamahori and Producer Michael G. Wilson 
  
• Audio Commentary 2: Featuring Pierce Brosnan and Rosamund Pike

Disc 2: 

• From Script to Screen (Region 2) – Exclusive revealing documentary 
  
• Inside Die Another Day - An in-depth look at the making of the film 
  
• Shaken and Stirred on Ice - Special documentary on the breathtaking car chase scene 
  
• Inter-action sequences – Multi-angle exploration of the incredible action sequences 
  
• Scene evolutions: Storyboard to final shot comparisons of key scenes 
  
• Title design – An inside look at the development of the opening credits sequence 
  
• Digital grading – Before and after comparisons of digitally altered footage 
  
• Equipment Briefing – Featurette about the film’s gadgets, weapons and vehicles 
  
• Image database – Over 200 stills including stunts and cast 
  
• Madonna music video - Die Another Day 
  
• Making of Madonna’s Die Another Day 
  
• Making of 007 Nightfire game 
  
• Theatrical and promotional trailers 
  
• TV spots 
  
• Hi Jinx Easter Egg 
  
• Double sided collector’s sleeve 
  
• Collectable Making of … booklet

It's the longest of the franchise to date (two-and-a-quarter hours) and the first to augment stunts and physical effects with major CGI, though the best fight is traditional: a polite club fencing match between Brosnan and Stephens that gets out of hand and turns into a destructive hack-and-slash fest with multiple edged weapons. Berry may be the first Bond girl with an Oscar on her shelf, but she's still stuck with a bad hairdo as well as having to endure 007's worst chat-up lines. Amazingly, most of the old things here do still work, though it's a shame that director Lee Tamahori (Once Were Warriors) wasn't given a better script to play with.

On the DVD: Die Another Day arrives on disc in a transfer that makes some of the CGI look less dodgy than it did in cinemas. The first disc includes two separate commentaries: an interesting, enthusiastic technical one with Tamahori and producer Michael Wilson, and a blander drone from Brosnan with input from "bad girl" actress Rosamund Pike. On Disc Two the main extra is "Inside Die Another Day", a 75-minute making-of with the usual 007 DVD extra mix of boosterism and solid background how-the-hell-they-did-it info. The "Region 2 exclusive" turns out to be another making-of, a video diary effort that takes a more interesting, wry approach to the mix of enterprise and chaos that is the Bond production machine. --Kim Newman