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GoldenEye (1995)

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82

Average Rating: 6.9/10
Reviews Counted: 49
Fresh: 40 | Rotten: 9

The first and best Pierce Brosnan Bond film, GoldenEye brings the series into a more modern context, and the result is a 007 entry that's high-tech, action-packed, and urbane.

67

Average Rating: 6.3/10
Critic Reviews: 15
Fresh: 10 | Rotten: 5

The first and best Pierce Brosnan Bond film, GoldenEye brings the series into a more modern context, and the result is a 007 entry that's high-tech, action-packed, and urbane.

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Pierce Brosnan made his first appearance as James Bond in this action thriller, the 17th in the series (excluding the 1967 Casino Royale and the 1983 Never Say Never Again) featuring the suave British super-agent. As the story begins, Agent 007 and his partner, Agent 006 (Sean Bean), pull a daring raid on a chemical weapons plant in the Soviet Union; however, they are captured by Russian troops, and while Bond is able to escape, 006 is not so lucky. Several years later, the Soviet Union and the

PG-13,

Mystery & Suspense, Action & Adventure

Jeffrey Caine, Bruce Feirstein

Oct 19, 1999

MGM/UA

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Critic Reviews for GoldenEye

All Critics (49) | Top Critics (15) | Fresh (42) | Rotten (9) | DVD (18)

Brosnan, however, looks set to stay. He'll never recapture the amused cool of the young Sean Connery, but he does overcome the handicap of looking like a humorless male model.

October 23, 2012 Full Review Source: New Yorker
Anthony Lane
New Yorker
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I don't know whether the Bond series has a future, but if Xenia Onatopp ever returns to try for world domination, he may finally get a battle worth fighting.

October 13, 2008 Full Review Source: Entertainment Weekly
Owen Gleiberman
Entertainment Weekly
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There's something a mite pathetic about our culture still clinging to 007, but it's hard to deny that this is one of the most entertaining entries in the Bond cycle.

October 13, 2008 Full Review Source: Chicago Reader
Jonathan Rosenbaum
Chicago Reader
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Richard Kiel, you are missed.

October 13, 2008 Full Review Source: TIME Magazine
Richard Schickel
TIME Magazine
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Among the better of the 17 Bonds and, perhaps more important for today's audience, a dynamic action entry in its own right, this first 007 adventure in six years breathes fresh creative and commercial life into the 33-year-old series.

October 2, 2008 Full Review Source: Variety
Todd McCarthy
Variety
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Director Campbell keeps matters bowling along and even manages to recapture something of the look of the earlier films.

February 9, 2006 Full Review Source: Time Out
Time Out
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This is a nice, safe, Bond movie that is trying to please the masses. And it does work as a crowd pleaser. Not among the best Bond, but a solid debut for Brosnan and a worthy entry in the series.

November 2, 2012 Full Review Source: Film Geek Central
Austin Kennedy
Film Geek Central

It doesn't completely lay Bond's psychological complexities naked, cold and bare. But "GoldenEye" can hardly be faulted for occasional concessions to casual entertainment - especially with a superior villain, taut action and an all-time Bond girl.

October 14, 2012 Full Review Source: Suite101.com
Nick Rogers
Suite101.com

A smash hit that brought Bond back to life in a great big enjoyable way.

September 30, 2012 Full Review Source: Antagony & Ecstasy
Tim Brayton
Antagony & Ecstasy

One of the more entertaining entries in the series, even if one thinks it's hogwash.

February 25, 2009 Full Review Source: Ozus' World Movie Reviews
Dennis Schwartz
Ozus' World Movie Reviews

Se acerta ao trazer um Bond mais amadurecido, amargurado e auto-consciente, peca terrivelmente por elementos que beiram o trash, como alguns efeitos visuais pavorosos e uma atuação sensual, mas absurda, de Janssen.

February 24, 2009
Pablo Villaca
Cinema em Cena

Brosnan is a stylish 007, the action is fast and the overall result hugely entertaining.

October 13, 2008 Full Review Source: Film4
Film4

This is the best bond movie since On Her Majesty's Secret Service.

October 13, 2008 Full Review Source: Empire Magazine
Kim Newman
Empire Magazine

Lean, dark and graceful, Brosnan wraps his perfectly calculated accent around all the standard phrases without making us hear quotation marks.

October 13, 2008 Full Review Source: TV Guide's Movie Guide
Maitland McDonagh
TV Guide's Movie Guide

Fast and light.

February 14, 2008 Full Review Source: eFilmCritic.com
Rob Gonsalves
eFilmCritic.com

Pierce is fantastic

February 10, 2008
Stefan Birgir Stefansson
sbs.is

...a solid, sporadically electrifying entry in this ongoing series.

November 25, 2006 Full Review Source: Reel Film Reviews
David Nusair
Reel Film Reviews

It's only slightly better than the movies of the last fifteen years or so, but that alone makes it worth seeing. License to Kill was so absolutely horrid, that I'm relieved to see an upswing.

May 26, 2006 Full Review Source: Combustible Celluloid
Jeffrey M. Anderson
Combustible Celluloid

The entry that salvages the franchise.

October 27, 2005
Bill Clark
FromTheBalcony Source: FromTheBalcony

Execs at MGM/UA can rest easy: the Bond franchise has been successfully salvaged.

August 7, 2004 Full Review Source: TheMovieReport.com
Michael Dequina
TheMovieReport.com
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Audience Reviews for GoldenEye

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With Goldeneye, the 17th Bond film, we finally get a successor that can pull of the dashing wit and coldness of Bond in the tradition of Sean Connery. Pierce Brosnan is the best Bond since Connery no question (at least until Craig came and shocked everyone). Goldeneye takes the series back to basics after the atypical Licence to Kill and the result is a slick and satisfying action film that follows the typical formula, but modernizes the look and feel for the first time in decades. Goldeneye isn't really any different than past successful Bond films, but as far as the formula goes this one applies it in the best ways since the heyday of the Connery era. The story is your typical maniac trying to take over the world with high tech gadgetry, but is actually one of the most intriguing because of the addition of 006. Sean Bean's 006 won't go down as one of the best villain performances, but he is solid and gets the job done and the character itself is one the better thought out villains. Famke Janssen's Xenia Onatopp is the more entertaining and memorable villain in the tradition of Oddjob. One of the major differences between this film and the past is that it is self-aware of many of the traditions and cliches of a Bond film and flips some of it on its head in funny and interesting ways. There's not a whole lot of humor, but what is there works and it's never cheesy (something that can't be said for any Roger Moore film). The action is pretty good in this, and there's tons of it (probably the most of any Bond I've seen up to this point in the series) and helps the film go at a decent pace until it hits a few slower spots in the middle. One criticism I do have, and it's not just levied at Goldeneye but Bond films in general, is that over 2 hours is starting to be too long and tiresome. Cut about 20-30 minutes off some of these films and they would be much better. Overall, Goldeneye is the best traditional Bond film since the Connery era and that makes it one of the strongest entries in the storied franchise.
August 21, 2008
jlewis07
Josh Lewis

Super Reviewer

"Goldeneye" is Pierce Brosnan's first turn as Bond, James Bond and it was also the first Bond movie I saw in the theater. I remember my dad taking me, and just being completely captivated. He and I have gone to each one since, and they just get better and better. Here Bond goes against the Soviet Union as they threaten the world with nuclear weapons. Sean Bean plays 006, and old associate of Bond's who is the mastermind behind war in search for world domination. This is also the first time Judi Dench plays M, and she does great. This really was a breath of fresh air for the franchise and helped keep it relevant.
December 22, 2012
Everett Johnson
Everett Johnson

Super Reviewer

GoldenEye Quotes

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    1. James Bond: Morning Q sorry about the leg. Skiing?
    2. Q: Hunting!
    – Submitted by Aaron P (22 days ago)
    1. James Bond: No more foreplay.
    – Submitted by Brendan C (5 months ago)
    1. James Bond: She always did like a good squeeze!
    – Submitted by Eric J (17 months ago)
    1. Alec Trevelyan: For England, James?
    – Submitted by john g (21 months ago)
    1. James Bond: Name's Bond. James Bond
    – Submitted by john g (21 months ago)
    1. Alec Trevelyan: For England, James?
    2. James Bond: No, for me.
    – Submitted by Wesley R (22 months ago)

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