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Goldeneye [DVD] [1995]

DVD ~ Pierce Brosnan
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  • Actors: Pierce Brosnan, Tcheky Karyo, Michael Kitchen, Desmond Llewelyn, Gottfried John
  • Directors: Martin Campbell
  • Format: Box set, PAL
  • Region: Region 2 (This DVD may not be viewable outside Europe. Read more about DVD formats.)
  • Number of discs: 2
  • Classification: 15
  • Studio: MGM Entertainment
  • DVD Release Date: 20 Oct 2008
  • Run Time: 124 minutes
  • Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
  • ASIN: B001EINT5U
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 13,050 in DVD (See Bestsellers in DVD)

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Directed by Martin Campbell, GOLDENEYE makes the transition to a more modern image for the James Bond series. Bond's out-of-date womanising is presented with a feminist challenge from the newly cast Judi Dench as an impenetrable M, and Samantha Bond as a wiser and more forthright Moneypenny. The action sequences--replete with helicopter hi-jinks and copious explosions--are complex and stylish, making the film a polished sensation. This instalment in the series introduces actor Pierce Brosnan in the role of suave, debonair, and irresistible 007. Despite the end of the Cold War, James Bond still finds himself pitted against nefarious Russians who want to rule the world. This time around, his enemies are a gang of mobsters and former military men who have gained access to the Goldeneye, which can cut off electrical currents in London. Alec Trevelyan (Sean Bean) is the leader, with General Ourumov (Gottfried John) an additional threat. Sizzling Bond babe Xenia Onatopp (Famke Janssen) is the sleek robber who, with Ourumov, successfully steals the Goldeneye, which the villains plan to use in their quest to control financial markets around the globe. However, this grizzly group of scoundrels is no match for Bond, who constantly outwits their attempts to assassinate him. Bond rescues the tough and lovely Natalya Simonova (Izabella Scorupco)--who was caught in Trevalyan's deadly web--and she eventually helps Bond turn the tables on his foes as he uses his quick instincts, innovative weapons, and cool gadgetry to save the day.

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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars An excellent package for an excellent Bond film - but a flawed transfer, 3 Nov 2008
By Trevor Willsmer (London, England) - See all my reviews
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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 clichéd 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). It's also uncensored in the UK this time, Xenia's headbutt restored (though the alternate shot replacing it in the UK version is now gone). 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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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars fun, 21 April 2009
By Furio (Genova - Italy) - See all my reviews
This Bond movie has just one basic flaw but utterly irritating: why should non Anglo-Saxon characters (here most are Russian) speak English among themselvels when no Anglo-Saxon is present and with an awful accent at that?
This is silly and irritating. Either you let them speak their language with subtitles or, if you think viewers will be annoyed by having to read, you let them speak plain English: otherwise one must think that non-natives alway speak in a language foreign to them just for the heck of producing guttural sounds.

As for the rest it is one of the best bond movies I can recall: action packed, well scripted (not always a given with Bond movies), well acted (Brosnan is good) and interesting in its assumptions.

Children are best kept out of it unless it is with a parent ready to do a lot of explaining.

This new edition is rich in extra features even if most of them are rather useless.
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Brosnan's First and Best Bond film, 21 April 2009
By D. Evans "dantheman95" (Southport) - See all my reviews
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By 1995 six years had passed since the previous James Bond film, Licence to Kill, had been released to mixed fortunes. With the departure of Timonthy Dalton, the producers needed to ensure that the new Bond would help bring the series into the 1990s and importantly would be a hit with the all important American audience. Hugh Grant, fresh from the worldwide hit Four Weddings and a Funeral, was mooted as a possible contender for the role, but ultimately there was never any real doubt that the job wuld not go to Pierce Brosnan. Brosnan had actually been previously cast in 1986, but the producers of his cancelled tv series, Remington Steele, suddenly decided on the back of this publicity to revive the programme, meaning he could not take on Bond. Goldeneye, as a film returns to the style of Sean Connery and Roger Moore era. Gone is the gritty feel of the Dalton era. In contrast to his predecessor, Brosnan is excellent at humour. The film also benefits from good direction by Martn Campbell. Sean Bean plays a memorable role. Easily the best Brosnan film.
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