George W. Bush has pinpointed North Korea as a threat to world peace. But in his new adventure, James Bond, fingers it even earlier as the place where evil resides. Played by a tougher, rougher, annealed looking Pierce Brosnan in his fourth outing, 007 has a bizarre adversary from those coldblooded latitudes - an assassin called Zao (Rick Yune) who got blown up in a diamond explosion and has a face still studded with high-carat jewels. Bond's given bruising treatment too - he's betrayed, captured, tortured and imprisoned long enough to grow a beard until a hostage exchange takes him back to mother 'M' (Judi Dench) thirsting for revenge. And romance - which this time is provided by exotic Halle Berry as a slinky character called Jinx. Doing homage to Ursula Andress, Halle, too, emerges from the brine in a bikini (orange this time) with hunting knife accessory in a white leather holster.
