Year: 1995
Director: Martin Campbell
Country: UK
Language: English
GoldenEye (1995) is the seventeenth spy film in the James Bond series, and the first to star Pierce Brosnan. It is also the first in the series not to take elements from Ian Fleming's original source novels. Upon release it recieved fairly positive views and did very well at the box office, becoming the most financially successful of the series since Moonraker (1979).
James Bond (Pierce Brosnan) teams up with the lone survivor of a destroyed Russian research center to stop the hijacking of a nuclear space weapon by a fellow agent formerly believed to be dead.
As a child I had played the Nintendo 64 version of Goldeneye obsessively. My brother and I would play multiplayer for hours on the weekend, obliterating each other with proximity mines and rocket launchers. Strangely, I hadn't seen the film until a few years ago. It's a film that feels very different from every other Bond picture even though it has many of the same trademarks (fast pace, loose women, intense action). The writing, and thus character development, is quite sophisticated for this series.
I quite liked the villain Trevelyan (Sean Bean), the bond girl Natalya (Izabella Scorupco) and the femme fatale Xenia Onatopp (Famke Janssen) I felt Pierce Brosnan was a great James Bond, perhaps better than Roger Moore. The cinematography, editing and score all fit the picture's consistent tone and pace.
Though there are better Bond flicks, like From Russia with Love & Goldfinger, I would certainly say that this belongs up with the Bond elite. It's a fine picture that unfortunately may seem a bit dated because of how many current action films copied its plot points. Some of the action seems bewildering, but that is par for the course with Mr.Bond.
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