GoldenEye (1995)

Very very predictable, including the post credit scene !!!

The Worst Film Ever

A Brilliant Conflict

This is a coming of age storyline that you've seen in one form or another for decades. It takes a truly unique voice to make yet another one worth watching.

Sean Bean makes the perfect villain -- nemesis for 007 Pierce Brosnan... should have kept him for other films. 8.5/10

Movie Review: "007: GoldenEye" (1995)After years of rearranging the Eon productions' company structure, Producer Barbara Broccoli takes over the producing chair from her father Albert R. Broccoli (1909-1996). Together with U.S. American producer Michael G. Wilson, onboard since "Moonraker" (1979), they deliver a new kind of Bond movie with all the values established in Sean Connery's era, which on its theatrical release in November 1995, let the audience witness a heart-pounding pre-title sequence, where actor Pierce Brosnan, portraying MI6-agent "007" with sharing beats of elegance, knowledge, charms and slight ingredients humorous understatement to a certain death scenario at a Russian military station with a fulminate resurrection after high-class action beats with a machine gun shoot-out, moments of catching breaths in a suspense stranglehold to a motorcycling descending airplane chase.Director Martin Campbell and cinematographer Phil Meheux use the orginally conceived script by newly-acquired Eon staff-writer Bruce Feirstein, supported by co-writer Jeffrey Caine, to present an action-thriller of a new era. Special effect miniature works are accompanied with risky live-action stunts, where the character of James Bond needs to stop a devastating launch of a nuclear space weapon the "GoldenEye", eliminating all electronic circuits, which its encounters. With help of Russian scientist Natalya Simonova, performed by 24-year-old actress Izabella Scorupco, and further hard-lining instructions by "M", portrayed by actress Dame Judi Dench in iron-lady fashions, Bond chases from a classical casino-scene in Monaco, meeting already his deadliest opponent in shapes of actress Famke Janssen, over to St. Petersburg in an highlighted city-wrecking tank-navigating pursuit sequence to a showdown at an hidden Satellite station in the Caribbean, when a surprising plot twist turns "GoldenEye" into a personal internal affair with new-sophistications-striking hand-to-hand combat in vertigo-bringing heights between "007" and "006".The soundtrack by Eric Serra gives a final superior atmosphere of one of the TOP 5 Bond movies, which even nowadays in direct comparison does not need to shy away from the contemporary Daniel Craig portrayal of "007", when story-pacing, action-beats, the selection of supporting characters and a knock-out main title sequence by designer Daniel Kleinman, further polished by Tina Turner's never-growing old classic main theme written by Paul David Hewson aka "Bono" of U2, deliver superbly.© 2017 Felix Alexander Dausend (Cinemajesty Entertainments LLC)

This is the best James Bond film ever made and stands tall above all the others. The bullets don't stop in this awesome ride of Bond fun! The characters are strong and the acting is excellent. Both the male and female caters are well cast, and has once of the best Bond villains ever. The ending is amazing! This is the best in the whole series! I give Goldeneye a 7/10

When it comes to James Bond cinema, there is always a fine balance between "camp" and "seriousness". Too much goofy stuff (like the later years of the Roger Moore reign) and the films turn completely farcical. Too much seriousness (like "Quantum of Solace" and "Skyfall" under Daniel Craig) and the films lack that fun quality that a 007 picture so desperately needs. "Goldeneye" gets the balance just right, providing a film that is both engaging and fun at the same time.For a basic plot summary, "Goldeneye" introduces Pierce Brosnan as Bond, who is sent by the new female M (Judi Dench) into the former Soviet Union to foil a spy satellite plot set up by a nefarious Russian general (Gottfried John). Along the way, Bond meets "good girl" Natalya (Izabella Scorupco), "bad girl" Xenia Onatopp (Famke Janssen), and we are even introduced to a fellow MI6 agent in Alec (Sean Bean).One of the primary reasons that "Goldeneye" works so well is that it introduces a new Bond actor (in Brosnan) into the equation, and those movies (think "Casino Royale" and "Live and Let Die") tend me to just a notch above the rest as the intensity level is set a bit higher. I have to give director Martin Campbell a ton of credit here, as he knows how to create an intriguing-enough plot line around such an already established character.Of course, all the "usual suspects" (M's briefing, Q's weapons, the girls, etc.) are back in force, but nothing is too over-the-top or eye-rollingly bad. Again, that delicate balance between fun & engaging is achieved in spades.Finally, I would be remiss not to mention that the legacy of "Goldeneye" will (going forward) always be partially paved by the extraordinary success of the Nintendo '64 video game of the same name. This movie will always hold a special, nostalgic place in the hearts of 90s kids who played that epic game.Overall, "Goldeneye" is a tremendous Bond effort that has to (on any ranking) be very near if not the top of the list.