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It's great Bond movie with an interesting opening. The reason I like this movie is it's music, action, and ending. I didn't like how there were so many deaths though.
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Perhaps the best part of this 130-minute film is the first 10.5 minutes. It's so spectacular that the rest of the film almost becomes a letdown.
When I first saw this a dozen years ago, I thought that opening action scene, contained the most outrageous stunt I had seen to that point in film. It had James Bond falling off a cliff and catching up in mid-flight to a falling airplane, landing in the cockpit and righting the plane! It was, of course, ridiculous, but great fun to watch.
The rest of the film is more typical Bond silliness with far less spectacular scenes. When it comes to gadgets, sexual innuendos, unrealistic action with Bond escaping from impossible situations, lots of pretty women and exotic scenery to ogle, these James Bond films always give plenty of the above. Sad to say, in this film, the dialog is much dumber than usual and the fake Russian accents are hard to decipher which is very annoying.
One good point: there is almost no profanity in this film, even minor stuff....but overall, it's just a "fair" Bond flick. decent but nothing to write home about, except to note that it was Pierce Brosnan's debut as Bond and h proved to be fine in that role.
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So Bond may be a "dinosaur" but he took a slight evolutionary step forward with Pierce Brosnan who at the time seemed born to play Bond. So it was the 90s, the coldwar had thawed out, so-called political correctness was in the air and so what's a "sexist", coldwar warrior, relic of the 1960s to do? Well, pretty much what he's always done. Because really the world hadn't changed so much that women don't no longer go for cocky, smooth talking alpha-males (no matter how p.c. things get) and governments don't use remorseless assassins to spy and kill for them. Heh, Bond's new boss, a woman (it's the 90s see) by the name of "M", calls Bond a dinosaur but she sure does need him and he's still popular with movie goers. Somethings don't change I guess and sometimes that's a good thing... A James Bond that doesn't know how to have a good time would be Bond in name only and having dumb lighthearted escapist fun is what the Bond franchise is/was all about. (In fairness to the newest Bond, getting serious and tougher is fine, but not caring about your drink and smooth talkin' the ladies is going too far! Bond ain't, and never can be, Jason Bourne) GOLDENEYE surely ranks amoung the top 5 best Bond flicks.
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This is the first Brosnan Bond picture I've seen. I actually tried watching it, and was bored by the point he reached the hotel casino, but decided to try it again. I'm glad I did.
This was an above average Bond movie. It will not replace my favorites ("Diamonds Are Forever", "You Only Live Twice", "Man With A Golden Gun", and "For Your Eyes Only"), but it belongs in the group picture.
Being a "Remington Steele" fan, I'm not surprised to see Brosnan succeed in this role. My favorite of the bad guys was Bruno; he was a riot.
The back of the DVD commented on the eye-popping opening sequence. My hunch is it was talking about a stunt that was as spectacular as the necessary suspension of disbelief -- could that have happened in real life? I doubt it.
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This 1995 movie is the first of 4 Bond films that starred Pierce Brosnan, and by far, I believe his best. This is also the 18th Bond (if you include Never Say Never Again).
I tend to favor Pierce as my favorite 007 because he has the wit and sex appeal that I feel Bond should have.
This movie begins with a stunt that only Bond could do---bungy cording down a dam. It makes it special because they used Hoover Dam (near where I reside) as the location. They had to insert trees and vegetation, because we all know that you can't find that in the Mojave desert. I just moved here when they filmed this scene and I remember it being on our news.
Bond does everything right again and saves the world from Russian nuclear weapons. With this you get a very action packed adventure, complete with gadgets, car chases, beautiful scenery and the whole wonderful Bond package.
While Daniel Craig has taken over as the new agent 007, nothing can replace Pierce, but Craig (I know) will continue to do an excellent job.
This version plays so good on a 5.1 surround sound system, it makes you feel like you were there in the midst of the action.
Watch this movie. Sit back and relax as it is Pierce's best Bond film and one of my top favorites.
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