La critique de Roger Ebert (suite)

When Halle Berry, as Jinx, first appears in the movie there is a deliberate and loving tribute to the first Bond girl, Ursula Andress, in "Dr. No" (1962). In both movies, the woman emerges from the surf wearing a bikini which, in slow motion, seems to be playing catch-up. Even the wide belt is the same. But Jinx is a new kind of Bond girl.

She still likes naughty double entendres (Bond says "My friends call me James Bond" and she replies, "Well that's a mouthful"). But in "Die Another Day" her character is not simply decoration or reward, but a competent and deadly agent *who turns the movie at times into almost a buddy picture.

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* C'est exactement ça. Dans les précédents James Bond les bonnes femmes sont vraiment là uniquement pour décorer...comme si les fabricants du film nous imposaient leur regard machiste et réducteur sur les femmes : Des connes avec pas grand chose dans la tête,juste bonne pour aller au lit...