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GoldenEye

GoldenEye

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This James Bond film sees the famed secret agent take on foreign agents who have stolen the key to a satellite weapons system.

Certificate12

Duration124 mins

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  • rebecca, 26
  • 599 reviews

GoldenEye

3 stars

16 Sep 2023

Welcome to a other James Bond film of the series with Pierce Brosnan playing the spy. So on Thursday the 14th of September 2023 we watched the next Bond film in the list which was called GoldenEye where the film starts in the year of 1986 where Soviet Russia has been arming international terrorists with chemical weapon technology, and a chemical weapons plant in the mountains and where James Bond and his closest compatriot, Alec Trevelyan who is played by Sean Bean. Is infiltrating the compound, while looking around they are spotted and Alec is captured by the ruthless Soviet General Ourumov he then executes Trevelyan. James must now try and escape the place before it goes boom he succeeds just in time. Now in 1995, he is assigned to tail former Red Air Force jet jockey Xenia Onatopp who is working for a Russian crime syndicate known as "Janus", but he is unable to stop her from stealing a powerful helicopter, a theft initially dismissed as a possibility by MI6's new leader, "M" who is played by a woman this time. The actress who played M is Dame Judi Dench who is a woman with a bureaucratic bean counter and, despite her acidic responses to grumbling from her ticked-off men, she is having to learn her job as she goes, and she has to trust James Bond's instincts after a nuclear accident occurs over a Russian region housing the tracking station for a weapons satellite known as "GoldenEye". James then tracks down the stolen gunship and it leads to a second GoldenEye system, along the way, he is horrified to find the true identity of the Janus syndicate, which leads to a spectacular running pursuit from the stolen gunship, through a Soviet Army prison, to a wild street chase involving a tank and confrontation with a Soviet missile train, and eventually a showdown in the jungles of Cuba. This review has been given a three star rating which means I found the film OK because Sean Bean plays a good villain and there are some great chase scenes with the tank but in are own opinion Pierce Brosnan who played the spy was not as good as other actors who have played the spy so far.That is why I have gave such a low rating. Are next James Bond film is going to be Tomorrow Never Dies. There is one more thing I would like to say about the film and that is I really liked the theme song which was sung by Tina Turner. Please join me for the next one in the series.

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