Goldeneye Movie Review 1995

Bond is back, in the long-awaited (eight years) debut of Brosnan as legendary Brit agent 007. Since we're through the Cold War, Bond has to make do with the villainy of the Russian Mafia, who are planning to sabotage global financial markets utilizing the "Goldeneye" satellite weapon. There's a spectacularly impossible stunt to start things out in familiar territory and lots more noisy (if prolonged) action pieces. Brosnan (who looks great in a tux) is slyly self-aware that his character is more myth than man and Janssen does a suitably over-the-top job as bad Bond girl Xenia Onatopp. Tina Turner sings the dreary title track.

Distribution

MGM Home Entertainment, 2500 Broadway, Santa Monica, CA 90404-6061, Phone: (310)449-3000, Fax: (310)449-3100, URL: http://www.mgmhomevideo.com, Remarks: Does not handle retail queries from consumers; contact your local video distributor.

Available on VHS, DVD
Running time 130 minutes.

Cast and Crew

Genres

Spies & Espionage, James Bond, Top Grossing Films of 1995, Dream Girls, Moscow Mafia, Russia/USSR, Technology--Rampant, Boom!, Scared 'Chuteless, Office Surprise

Screenplay

Jeffrey Caine, Michael France

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, Serena Gordon, Samantha Bond, Minnie Driver

Cinematography

Phil Meheux

Director

Martin Campbell

Music

Eric Serra

Producer

Michael G. Wilson, Barbara Broccoli, Tom Pevsner, United Artists

Awards

Blockbuster 1996: Action Actor, T. (Brosnan).