GoldenEye
Starring: Joe Don Baker, Sean Bean, Pierce Brosnan, Robbie Coltrane, Alan CummingStudio: MGM (Video & DVD)
MPAA Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Format: AC-3, Color, Dolby, DTS Surround Sound, Dubbed, DVD-Video, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
Audio: Dolby Digital 5.1, Dolby Digital 5.1
Running Time: 130 minutes
DVD Release: February 6th 2007
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DVD Review
The 18th James Bond adventure was a runaway box-office success when released in 1995, thanks to the arrival of Pierce Brosnan as the fifth actor (following the departure of Timothy Dalton) to play the suave, danger-loving Agent 007. This James Bond is a bit more vulnerable and psychologically complex--and just a shade more politically correct--but he's still a formally attired playboy at heart, with a lovely Russian beauty (Izabella Scorupco) as his sexy ally against a cadre of renegade Russians bent on--what else?--global domination. There's also a seductive villainous with the suggestive name of Xenia Onatopp (Famke Janssen), and the great actress Judi Dench makes her first appearance as Bond's superior, M, who wisecracks about 007's "dinosaur" status as a globetrotting sexist. All in all, this action-packed Bond adventure provided a much-needed boost the long-running movie series, revitalizing the 007 franchise for the turn of the millennium. --Jeff Shannon
User Reviews
Blah!! Blah!! Blah!! - Rating: 1/5
I just saw "Golden Eye" after ten years on cable last night. Are you kidding!! It was terrible. The whole movie was so badly acted and phony one could hardly sit through it. The only welcoming figure was Judi Dench as M. Even Pierce Brosnan was pathethic as Bond. Thank God for "Casino Royale" and Daniel Craig as Bond. What skunk stink!! Avoid " Golden Eye!"
Great, GREAT, Film - Rating: 5/5
007, Goldeneye is magic in so many ways. First of all, the name is one of the best and most memorable in the series, making it entirely marketable in diverse ways. Second, the acting is stellar, incorporating many recognizable stars into one amazing Bond film. Thirdly, the electronic/lush romantic score by Eric Serra is wonderful. Fourth... Let's just say this is a great film.
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My only reservation in reccomending this film are a couple scenes that seem to blur the line between sensuality and violence, (the villianess is a murderer with the style of a black widow.)
I can only give it a 3 of 5 - Rating: 3/5
I thought it was a very silly plot, and really, really disliked the Russian hacker.
Goldeneye DVD - Rating: 4/5
GoldenEye
This is a great movie! Sean Bean is a terrific villain and Pierce Brosnan is a better Bond that Roger Moore.
Brosnan's best Bond but that isn't saying very much - Rating: 2/5
Pierce Brosnan, who did a spectacular job with "The Thomas Crown Affair", makes a surprisingly weak James Bond. He's almost a perfect splicing together of one of the better Bonds, Timothy Dalton, and the all-time worst, Roger Moore. That's too bad because Brosnan is a fairly good actor. If the producers had tried to portray Bond as Dalton and Fleming did, I think he would have done a fairly good job of it. Once again, "The Thomas Crown Affair" demonstrates how good Brosnan can play cool, ruthless and debonair.
The movie itself isn't very good and doesn't really reference Fleming except in the title. They took one plot element from "Moonraker" and that's about all of the Fleming you'll find in "Goldeneye". That's too bad because a lot of Ian Fleming's ideas have never made it to the big screen.
The first four Bonds and OHMSS are fairly faithful to Fleming and that's about it. "Live and Let Die", "Living Daylights" and "For Your Eyes Only" also feature a few of Fleming's ideas but not enough to make them worthwhile.
The new "Casino Royale" had quite a bit of Fleming in it, particularly in the center section of the film. That's a good thing. Remakes of "Live and Let Die", "Moonraker", and "Diamonds Are Forever" would be welcome, particularly if the screenwriters use the Fleming novels as actual launching points, as they did with "Casino Royale".
