Sean Connery’s James Bond was a debonair fellow. He was a guy all the other guys wanted to be, and a guy all the ladies wanted to sleep with.

Pierce Brosnan is pretty damn good, too, as far as James Bonds go. He is definitely smooth, and I would like to be him any day.

-But there is something about the latest Bond film, “Die Another Day” (R, MGM), that just did not do it for me. Aside from the blood-pumping stunts, various Bond nostalgia and funny John Cleese moments, “Die Another Day” is a seriously flawed film.

Good dialogue, which can glue even the shoddiest of plots, fell flatter than a fat guy on an icy parking lot. Take, for example, when Jinx (Halle Berry) was held prisoner. In typical villain form, Zao (Rick Yune) asks Berry whom sent her. Berry replies, “Yo mama!” Ugh.

“Die Another Day” opens with a poorly computer generated Bond surfing his way up to a mine field. Since when did Bond surf? After surfing, Bond steals diamonds and blows up a bunch of Koreans, including a general’s son. This lands Bond prison for eighteen months.

After his release from Korean captivity, he travels to Cuba and meets a most annoying Halle Berry. Bond also meets up with Q (John Cleese) in perhaps the best moment of the film. Bond then speeds off in Q’s sleek invisible car to Gustav Graves’ beautifully designed ice complex, where Jinx is waiting in the shadows.

Graves, played well by Toby Stevens, is an Icelandic diamond entrepreneur up to no good.

In a really confusing ending, Bond saves the day with a bad pun. All in a good day’s work.

As far as a Bond film goes, it’s all right. Definitely better than whatever that crap was with Denise “I’ve seen better acting in low-grade porn” Richards. It is just that I want to expect more out of the franchise. Bond has the possibility of being so cool, so suave, so neat. Instead of the smart, subtle approach, Bond whacks us over the head with bad writing, insane stunts, a clouded plot and an overkill of computer generation.