Bond Retrospective: "Goldeneye"
Released: 1995
Actor: Pierce Brosnan
Villain: Alec Trevelyan (Sean Bean)
Henchman: Xenia Onatopp (Famke Janssen), Boris (Alan Cumming)
Allies: Jack Wade (Joe Don Baker), Zukovsky (Robbie Coltrane)
Bond Girl: Natalya Simonova (Izabella Scorupco)
First Appearance: Samantha Bond as Monneypenny, Dench as M, Brosnan as Bond
Precredits sequence: Bond, working with Trevelyan (006), attempt to infiltrate a Russian base headed by Orulov, but the mission goes wrong, Alec is apparently killed, and Bond barely escapes.
Plot: Bond sees Xenia, who works for the Janus syndicate She steals tiger, goes w general to activate goldeneye and destroy weapons area in severnaya. Inside man involved. Orumov blames it on Siberian terrorists, but he killed 006 and is working with Janus. Natalya survived as did Boris. Bond goes to Russia, finds his contact, and is pointed towards janus's competitor, Zukovsky. Zutovsky will set him up for money. Janus is a Cossack, who worked ginst Russia in WWII. Bond is set up with onatopp, who takes him to Janus, who's 006. 006's parents were Cossack and killed themselves from shame; their orphan son became 006. Bond is captured with Natalya, but is caught by he Russian government, and is interrogated by mishkin, who believes they attacked severnaya. Orumovm comes in to the interrogation, kills mishkin, but Bond and Natalya escape. Orumov captures Natalya and speeds away, but Bond chases him in a tank and sees him take her onto a train. Bond stops the train, but Orumov has Natalya. Bond kills Orumov but Alec and Xenia escape. Bond escapes the train, which Alec left to explode, and Natalya hacks into Boris's account and sees that Alec is likely going to Cuba. In Cuba, Xenia attacks but Bond disposes of her rather quickly. Then, Alec tells Boris to open the satellite, which appears from under a lake. Or rather, the lake drains, revealing it. Bond is captured while Natalya aims to stop the satellite. Alec's plan is to steak funds from England, and use goldeneye to erase the transactions, as its an emp thing. The UK goes into the stone age. Natalya reprograms the launch codes, and as Boris tries to break them, Bond sets a bomb and escapes. Alec goes after him. Bond kills him, and stops the satellite by jamming it with a rod. Boris breaks through the codes too late, and he meets his fate, frozen by a chemical compound. Jack Wade, CIAcontact for this film, rescues Bond and Natalya at the end. We are against promised that James Bond will return.
Thoughts: I think Goldeneye holds a special spot for people my age. I don't think saw it when it came out. But I remember how popular the game was for N64. Immensely popular. Brosnan was also the Bond my age group grew up with. That being said, I think Goldeneye remains a stellar Bond film, one of the best. Due, in no short part, to Alec as 006, makes for an interesting foil to Bond, compared to his typical villains. Xenia was also an interesting henchman. The plot itself was also good, and the right mix between intriguing and non-convoluted. And, the theme for this film is, to me, in the top 3 Bond themes. Excellent opening credits as well, better than time after time of silhouetted men and women that Maurice Binder did for years. Brosnan is a good, but safe Bond. Not as serious as Dalton, not as charming as Moore, not as heartfelt as Lazenby, not as hard*ss as Craig, and not as good a mix of almost all the characteristics as Connery. Sort of the safest, middle of the road Bond, to me. Which isn't bad, to me, just not standout. I guess he's the most suave of them all. The mention of M's predecessor lends belief to different M but same 007. Bond's patents died in climbing accident so he's an orphan. Soundtrack is quite annoying and way too prominent, especially at the start of the film. But this remains, I think, Brosnan's best film, and one of the best of the series.
Actor: Pierce Brosnan
Villain: Alec Trevelyan (Sean Bean)
Henchman: Xenia Onatopp (Famke Janssen), Boris (Alan Cumming)
Allies: Jack Wade (Joe Don Baker), Zukovsky (Robbie Coltrane)
Bond Girl: Natalya Simonova (Izabella Scorupco)
First Appearance: Samantha Bond as Monneypenny, Dench as M, Brosnan as Bond
Precredits sequence: Bond, working with Trevelyan (006), attempt to infiltrate a Russian base headed by Orulov, but the mission goes wrong, Alec is apparently killed, and Bond barely escapes.
Plot: Bond sees Xenia, who works for the Janus syndicate She steals tiger, goes w general to activate goldeneye and destroy weapons area in severnaya. Inside man involved. Orumov blames it on Siberian terrorists, but he killed 006 and is working with Janus. Natalya survived as did Boris. Bond goes to Russia, finds his contact, and is pointed towards janus's competitor, Zukovsky. Zutovsky will set him up for money. Janus is a Cossack, who worked ginst Russia in WWII. Bond is set up with onatopp, who takes him to Janus, who's 006. 006's parents were Cossack and killed themselves from shame; their orphan son became 006. Bond is captured with Natalya, but is caught by he Russian government, and is interrogated by mishkin, who believes they attacked severnaya. Orumovm comes in to the interrogation, kills mishkin, but Bond and Natalya escape. Orumov captures Natalya and speeds away, but Bond chases him in a tank and sees him take her onto a train. Bond stops the train, but Orumov has Natalya. Bond kills Orumov but Alec and Xenia escape. Bond escapes the train, which Alec left to explode, and Natalya hacks into Boris's account and sees that Alec is likely going to Cuba. In Cuba, Xenia attacks but Bond disposes of her rather quickly. Then, Alec tells Boris to open the satellite, which appears from under a lake. Or rather, the lake drains, revealing it. Bond is captured while Natalya aims to stop the satellite. Alec's plan is to steak funds from England, and use goldeneye to erase the transactions, as its an emp thing. The UK goes into the stone age. Natalya reprograms the launch codes, and as Boris tries to break them, Bond sets a bomb and escapes. Alec goes after him. Bond kills him, and stops the satellite by jamming it with a rod. Boris breaks through the codes too late, and he meets his fate, frozen by a chemical compound. Jack Wade, CIAcontact for this film, rescues Bond and Natalya at the end. We are against promised that James Bond will return.
Thoughts: I think Goldeneye holds a special spot for people my age. I don't think saw it when it came out. But I remember how popular the game was for N64. Immensely popular. Brosnan was also the Bond my age group grew up with. That being said, I think Goldeneye remains a stellar Bond film, one of the best. Due, in no short part, to Alec as 006, makes for an interesting foil to Bond, compared to his typical villains. Xenia was also an interesting henchman. The plot itself was also good, and the right mix between intriguing and non-convoluted. And, the theme for this film is, to me, in the top 3 Bond themes. Excellent opening credits as well, better than time after time of silhouetted men and women that Maurice Binder did for years. Brosnan is a good, but safe Bond. Not as serious as Dalton, not as charming as Moore, not as heartfelt as Lazenby, not as hard*ss as Craig, and not as good a mix of almost all the characteristics as Connery. Sort of the safest, middle of the road Bond, to me. Which isn't bad, to me, just not standout. I guess he's the most suave of them all. The mention of M's predecessor lends belief to different M but same 007. Bond's patents died in climbing accident so he's an orphan. Soundtrack is quite annoying and way too prominent, especially at the start of the film. But this remains, I think, Brosnan's best film, and one of the best of the series.
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