Die Another Day's atrocious tsunami surfing sequence proved to everybody that James Bond badly needed a makeover. The Pierce Brosnan Bond movies have been rightly credited with saving the series, following a long hiatus between his debut, GoldenEye , and Timothy Dalton's final outing, Licence to Kill .

In between entries, the Berlin Wall came down and the Cold War was declared finished, so there was genuine concern about whether audiences would still go see a new James Bond movie . Brosnan's era leaned on his charm and their elaborate setpieces, proving the superspy could be reinvented.

However, by 2002, there were already rivals snapping at Bond's feet . Shows like 24 and movies such as The Bourne Identity took a grittier, more real-world approach that connected

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