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Directed By
Martin Campbell
Written By:
Michael France, Jeffrey Caine
Cast:
Pierce Brosnan, Famke Janssen, Sean Bean, Izabela Scorupco, Joe Don Baker, Robbie Coltrane, Judi Dench, Tcheky Karyo, Gottfried John, Alan Cumming, Desmond Llewelyn, Michael Kitchen, Samantha Bond, Minnie Driver
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Goldeneye (1995)
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Movie Review by Jarrod
August 20th, 2007
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Pierce Brosnan may be my favorite James Bond after Connery, but I learned that ranking the quality of the actors who have played 007 is useless and completely subjective, but for the sake of it, I would place Connery first, then Brosnan, then Moore, then Daniel Craig, then George Lazenby (who played him once, in On Her Majesty's Secret Service), and finally Timothy Dalton, but most everybody places him last, so that is one common denominator, I suppose.
'Goldeneye' was Brosnan's debut as James Bond, and it is an explosive and thrilling action extravaganza, Bond for the modern age, with a bigger budget, niftier gadgets, and slicker sports cars with amazing features. Bond tries to stop a former agent, 006, Alec Trevelyan (Sean Bean), thought to be dead, who seeks to control a space satellite and use it to destroy England. Working with him is a rogue Russian army officer named Ourumov, and the beautiful and deadly Xenia (Famke Janssen), who snaps men's necks between her legs. Bond is accompanied by another lass, Natalya (Scorupco), a computer whiz, who is committed to settling a score with an old friend and colleague named Boris (c*mming), another computer whiz, who happens to be working for Trevelyan.
Judi Dench, of course, is M, Bond's boss, who is strict yet reliable, and Desmond Llewelyn is Q, who creates all of Bond's gadgets, and gets flustered as he destroys them. 'Goldeneye' has a superb opening segment, and an equally good finale, and everything in between is fast paced and exciting, with stunts involving cars, tanks, and motorcycles, with Brosnan delivering witty one-liners, and romancing Scorupco, even engaging in playfully sinister and suggestive confrontations with Xenia. Bean makes for a good villain, in the classic Bond tradition. Out of the four Brosnan Bond films, I would rank it third, after The World Is Not Enough and Tomorrow Never Dies.
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