GoldenEye

GoldenEye

Pierce Brosnan replaces Timothy Dalton as James Bond. 1995. Director: Martin Campbell.

Bond (Pierce Brosnan) and his colleague, agent 006 Alec Trevelyan (Sean Bean) infiltrate a Soviet weapon facility. Something goes wrong and Alec is shot by a man named Ourumov (Gottfrid John). Bond escapes and leaves in an airplane just as the place explodes.

Nine years later Bond arrives to Monte Carlo after a wild car chase along a road in the mountains. He's following Xenia Onatopp (Famke Janssen) who's a suspect as a member of the Janus crime syndicate. She's having an affair with a Navy admiral.

The next day, a Tiger helicopter is stolen by Xenia and others from Janus. Bond tries to stop them but is stopped just before getting to the helicopter as it leaves. It's a very advanced helicopter that can withstand an electromagnetic pulse.

In Severnaya, there's a hidden station of computers and such. The Tiger helicopter arrives and Ourumov and Xenia enters the office underground. Xenia murder everyone there, except for the frightened Natalya (Isabella Scorupco) who's hiding in the little kitchen.

Natalya believes that everyone else is dead, but she's not aware that her odd colleague Boris (Alan Cumming) has left with the killers. She makes it out of there alive, but Ourumov and his people doesn't know that. Luckily for Natalya, the MI6 does.

In Severnaya, Xenia and Ourumov stole the key to a satellite called GoldenEye. It can radiate a strong electromagnetic pulse. That's what destroyed the station and the three planes that chrashed into the station. M (Judi Dench) sends Bond to investigate and meet Natalya who may know something.

But it is not Ourumov who's behind the stealing of GoldenEye. It's someone who Bond thought was dead since many years ago. To stop him will be harder then Bond first thought!

This is a splended Bond film. It's all right, but not good enough I must say. Pierce Brosnan is really good as Bond except how he's running. Well, he's charming, handsome, cold and cool and that's enough. But the rest is just a bit to bad to be good enough.

It's still exiting and good entertainment. Good enough to watch. There's a lot of action but sometimes just too much, like the fight in the end. Just too much.