GoldenEye (2-Disc Ultimate Edition)
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Primary Contributor: Pierce BrosnanDVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown); French (Unknown); English (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled)
Format: Closed-captioned, NTSC, Widescreen
Running Time: 130 unknown-units
Audience Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
DVD Reviews of GoldenEye (2-Disc Ultimate Edition)
DVD Review: Goldeneye Packs a Punch
Summary: 5 Stars
Double 007 gets a big surprise when a supposedly formerly murdered agent resurrects on the other side! Packed with adventure and with sometime for reflection Goldeneye delivers one of the best Bond films to date.DVD Review: Campbell's "GoldenEye" embraces many of the best-loved motifs and situations from the classic Bond movies...
Summary: 3 Stars
Brosnan has the look, the style, the intelligence and the bravura that James Bond should have... As charming, sophisticated, and always in control of the situation, Bond called upon all his ability for improvising escapes from truly impossible situations... The new Bond drives a BMW, remains preferring his vodka martinis 'shaken but not stirred,' and uses a Walther PPK, 7.65mm... The famous announcement "Bond, James Bond" is changed...
The plot line of "Goldeneye" revolves around an international terrorist organization calling itself Janus that steels a top-secret Russian weapon system named GoldenEye and threatens to use it to destroy a major European city unless paid off...
Bond's mission was to find and stop the GoldenEye, struggling with a sadistic assassin, a treacherous general, an 'invincible' computer hacker, and most dangerous of all, a colleague and friend...
The opening scene is spectacular with a great bungee jump from a top of a dam to an exciting racing over a cliff in a motorcycle and skydiving into a crushing private plane... Martin Campbell's film comes with a phenomenal tank chase through the streets of St. Petersburg; a brutal showdown in the jungle; and a battle to the death on a high gantry...
Goldeneye's female characters are honestly beautiful with particular techniques... The bad one is Xenia Onatopp (Famke Janssen), an ex-Soviet fighter pilot who tranquilly smokes big cigars and knocks off her victims with her 'killer thighs.' In one scene, she challenges Bond's legendary Aston Martin DB5 to a wild road race outside Monte Carlo with her red Ferrari; in another she was so smart that she snatches a top-secret helicopter from under the noses of the French navy...
The good Bond girl is the irresistible Natalya Simonova (Izabella Scorupco) who 'tastes like strawberries.' Natalya possesses all the technical ability to neutralize Janus' scheme or to destroy all computer records with the GoldenEye... As one who survived a mass murder, this lovely beauty is suddenly a marked woman...
The other supporting actors are all fine:
Sean Bean plays a potentially fascinating bad character, the embittered and cynical traitor who was believed to have been killed on a mission... Alec Trevelyan has sworn revenge on the country that was responsible for his parents' suicide...
Alan Cumming plays the 'invincible' Boris Grishenko who sees crime as a chance to show off his skills; and Gottfried John, the renegade ambitious general who provides inside access to Russian military secrets...
Award-winning Judi Dench is terrific as Bond's unshaken spy chief...
Samantha Bond as MoneyPenny puts forward for consideration that Bond's behavior might be interpreted as sexual harassment...
Serena Gordon as the neurotic MI6 assessor Caroline evaluates 007 for just 'trying to show off the size of his... ego.'
One familiar face among the MI6 staff was that of the redoubtable Q, played once again by Desmond Llewelyn who introduces 007 to his latest chariot, the BMW Z3... Although convertible, this agile vehicle doesn't play a significant action role in the film... Q doesn't forget to deliver Bond a typical leather belt, a watch that expels a laser beam, and a silver pen used to clever effect...
The 17th Bond film takes us from Russia, Puerto Rico, Monaco and back to England... It features one of the best title tunes performed by the "Queen of Rock & Roll," Tina Turner...
For trivia buffs: Kate Gayson appears as an extra at the Chemin De Fer table at Monte Carlo's gambling casino; she's the daughter of Eunice Gayson, who played Bond's fetching girlfriend, Sylvia Trench in the first two Bond films, "Dr. No" and "From Russia With Love." It was to Sylvia Trench that Sean Connery uttered his first line of dialog, "I admire your luck, Mr. ...?"
DVD Review: Golden Eye 007
Summary: 5 Stars
Item was shipped and received in an expediant manner. Packaged in near perfect condition as promised. No complaints. 5 STARS.DVD Review: "" A sexist, misognest dinosaur, a relic of the cold war..."
Summary: 5 Stars
Brosnan's debut as James Bond, nearly a decade after he had been originally tapped for the part -- but had to withdraw because NBC wouldn't release him from his contract on REMINGTON STEELE. It's a rousing adventure with the new Bond in a post cold war thriller involving a faceless arms dealer, a stolen french helicopter and a secret satellite system called "Goldeneye". Pierce Brosnan is great as Bond, Sean Bean his usual top-notch performance as Janus with Isabella Scorupcca (?) and the incredible Famke Jansen (5'11", 38-24-36) as Xenia Onnatopp. DVD Review: An excellent package for an excellent Bond film - but a flawed transfer
Summary: 5 Stars
After six years in limbo as EON and the new owners of MGM/UA found themselves and the series locked in legal action at lawsuits, Timothy Dalton decided too much time had elapsed to renew his licence to kill, ushering in the Brosnan era. At the time hailed for `saving' the series (just as Dalton and Moore had been before him), the star's own bitter feud with the producers and the success of Daniel Craig in reinventing the role seem to have combined with disappointment with some of Brosnan's subsequent Bond films to the point where it's harder and harder to find any Bond fans with a good word to say about his tenure. But in 1995 GoldenEye was certainly welcomed with open arms and blockbuster business and it holds up remarkably well.
If there's a problem with Brosnan's take on Bond, it's that there really isn't much of one. He looks good in the suits, does what's required but where every other Bond actor brought something new or of their own to the part, Brosnan is more of a composite of previous Bonds, an across-the-board demographic-pleasing but nothing radical Bond, veering more towards the unflappable suavity of Roger Moore than the danger of Connery or Lazenby or the gritty bleakness of Dalton. But then, if Brosnan brings nothing new but his face to the part, in many ways, like The Living Daylights, GoldenEye is a kind of transitional Bond film rather than anything as radical as Casino Royale, the old Bond formula recognisably in place with all the surface gloss and expected ingredients but with a post-Cold War spin to dust off some of the more clich?d aspects.
While the plot isn't exactly realistic, revolving around a scheme to use a stolen Russian electromagnetic pulse satellite weapon to wreak a lucrative revenge for past wrongs done to the villain's family, the treatment isn't as over the top or as arch as it could have been (for that, you need to see Brosnan's final outing, Die Another Day). The writing is much stronger than usual, the film plot-led and finding a good mix between the action you expect and some insights into the characters you don't, for the first time in the series' history the leading ladies really do have decent roles, and Martin Campbell's direction is particularly powerful: while it is a little short on long shots, betraying his TV background, it's got none of that going-through-the-motions feel to many of the more prolific Bond directors' efforts. Terry Rawlings' editing is also interesting and often highly effective, while even Eric Serra's much criticised score - that hideous post-title sequence car chase aside - is often stronger than it's given credit for even if it is perhaps too giant a leap from the traditional Bond sound for most purists.
If the film is still highly enjoyable, the Ultimate Edition DVD, however, is a definite mixed blessing. The new extras are particularly good - 4 deleted scenes and several new featurettes, including ones on the tank chase, car stunts, model work, pre-production, location scouting and Campbell's directing (which much footage of him in a bad mood on a particularly bad day). There's also the press conference introducing Brosnan, the original TV promo `GoldenEye - The Secret Files' and all the extras from the original release (though curiously the extra TV spot from the laserdisc release is still is missing). All of which SHOULD make this a perfect disc - with one notable caveat. Unfortunately the new transfer is not, with the picture wildly overcropped - it's still in the 2.35:1 ratio, but top, bottom and both sides have been cropped, which is very noticeable on the computer readouts in the film. For that reason, if you aren't bothered about the extras you might want to stick with the previous special edition, which IS in the right ratio.
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