GoldenEye





Love this movie. It's what really got me interested in the Bond series. A

It would've been probably one of the best Bond movies if it weren't for one person. Eric Serra. It's just not a James Bond movie without the famous James Bond theme written by Monty Norman. It's there, but Serra (Probably at the producers request to change things up after the six year hiatus) disguised it and made it sound really awful. Other than that, it's a great Bond movie.

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Talk about your great brithday presents! Not only did the producers of one of my favorite movie series pick the guys that I had wanted since 1986 to play James Bond, but they even released it on my birthday. It couldn't have been a better Bond film for a new and exciting era, as Pirece Brosnan instantly was a hit, and made people quickly forget about the Timothy Dalton misstep. (and I'm one of the few who liked Dalton, but Brosnan buried him in the role.)

It had great villians, with Sean Bean as a former friend and MI6 agent gone bad and Famke Janssen as his amazon hench woman with killer legs. From this point on, the Bond films have served as a springboard for actors who have moved into other big franchises.

Sean Bean - Lord of the Rings
Robbie Coltrane - Harry Potter
Famke Janssen - X-Men
Alan Cumming - X-men
Judi Dench - International sexpot!

Hopefully, director Martin Campbell can strike his brand of lightning twice, as Casino Royale opens on my birthday in 2006, but I'm very unsure about that. On the surface, Daniel Craig is no Pierce Brosnan.

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Eric Sera's score is a masterwork.

Okay not.

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Probably my fave Bond(though I haven't seen that many).

I think this is the best Bond film with Brosnan

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My favorite Brosnan Bond. B+

with everyone talking about the older Bond films, I wanted to bring up one of my favorites.

One of the best. I've always loved the atmosphere.

The music still sucks but the rest still rules.

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awesome film, the pimp slap toward the end always puts a smile on my face.

Solid Bond film, and nice start for Brosnan, but it takes itself a little too seriously, and the music is just terrible. Brosnan slips into the role nicely, and Sean Bean is a great villain, but the whole film is too grim and dark, without a lot of humour. Not to mention the butchering of the classic theme. Some great action set pieces (the tank chase in particular) and Famke Janssen as the crazed Bond girl (the other one was so bland) make up for it. Above average Bond.

It's the best Brosnan Bond film. My sixth favorite Bond overall, behind From Russia with Love, Goldfinger, The Living Daylights, Licence to Kill, and Casino Royale.

Martin Campbell made the best Bond movies.

With Pierce Brosnan's first outing as 007 in Goldeneye, you get a mix of Roger Moore and Timothy Dalton. He's got the charm and charisma of Moore had while also being able to deliver the standard one liners, except he doesn't make them sound horrifically cheesy. And he comes close to matching the serious side of Bond like Dalton could.

Like Licence to Kill, Goldeneye works so well because of the villain Alec "006" Trevelyan. He doesn't have the ruthlessness that Sanchez had (not all Bond villains need it, it just worked really well in LTK), but he's 007's perfect match in intelligence and physicality. And the back and forth they have is quite good.

Also on the villain front we get Xenia Onatopp. And this is how you make a career. Famke Janssen as Onatopp is one of the best henchman in the franchise. She's certainly the sexiest. And like any great Bond henchman she can certainly kick his ass around. It was also a nice touch that she cums whenever she does something even remotely violent. She just oozes with sexuality. There's a reason why so many guys my age began their love for Bond with this film.

As for the other Bond girl, Isabella Scorupco, she's sexy and she holds her own against Bond, but she's just about average as a Bond girl. I think she might also have the distinction of being the first Bond girl to actually lock tongues with 007 (these are the kind of things you notice when you watch these back to back ten times over).

But like I mentioned before, and most others seemed to as well, the score by Eric Serra is well, not great for a Bond film. It's different. That's the highest compliment I could give it. The added addition of the standard Bond theme, instead of the one Serra made that's actually still on the soundtrack, sounds good during the tank chase and makes up for the rest of the score. However, Serra's score at the very end of the film when Bond and 006 are chasing one another on the satellite is very damn good. That part of the score seems to go overlooked.

And speaking of that very tank chase, it's one of the highlights of the series. So is the fist fight between Bond and 006 just before they go up on the satellite. And the opener with the bungee jump off the dam is easily the most iconic shot from the Brosnan era.

It's clear that Goldeneye was written with Dalton in mind (which explains the serious tone), and as much as I would've liked to have seen him get a chance at making at least a couple more Bond films, Pierce Brosnan does more than nicely in taking over the tux.

**** (A-)

1. On Her Majesty's Secret Service (1969) - ***** (A+)
2. Goldfinger (1964) - ***** (A+)
3. The Spy Who Loved Me (1977) - ***** (A+)
4. From Russia with Love (1963) - ****½ (A)
5. Licence to Kill (1989) - ****½ (A)
6. Goldeneye (1995) - **** (A-)
7. The Living Daylights (1987) - **** (A-)
8. Live and Let Die (1973) - ***½ (B+)
9. You Only Live Twice (1967) - *** (B)
10. For Your Eyes Only (1981) - *** (B)
11. Thunderball (1965) - *** (B)
12. Dr. No (1962) - *** (B)
13. A View to a Kill (1985) - **½ (B-)
14. The Man with the Golden Gun (1974) - **½ (C+)
15. Diamonds are Forever (1971) - **½ (C+)
16. Octopussy (1983) - ** (C)
17. Moonraker (1979) - ** (C)

brought bond into the 90s. created one of the best vide games ever. hard to beat.

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Great film with a solid story and amazing characters...

You had the main Villian with Sean Bean but omg Xenia steals the show in this film being a Sadistic thigh lust murderer

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