I just realized tonight that Die Another Day strongly anticipates the breaks with formula in Casino Royale: Bond is clearly called an ASSASSIN rather than a "Secret Agent", he suffers under torture rather than spending the entire film unmussed, and he is easily taken by the scheme. It was my favorite Bond movie until this one, and I think that's why -- The True Bond (of the books) is not really suave or unstoppable. He's an assassin who gets the shit kicked out of him with surprising regularity, and is frequently in over his head.