Two Germans review Die Another Day: Karl-Heinz Schaefer for the Rheinicher Merkur, and Tobias Knebe for the Sueddeutsche Zeitung. Both make a big deal out of the fact that the movie is the 20th Bond film, and both focus on the record-breaking product placements (120 million dollars' worth, in case you hadn't heard). One thing I did not know: eleven identical Aston-Martins were destroyed in the film, to the tune of 2.5 million dollars. What a crying shame.

For the record, Schaefer is on the money (the movie is "pretty unimaginative"), while Knebe is rather lame, (the director, Lee Tamahori, "does not disappoint").