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1995
Presented by Albert R
Broccoli
Directed by Martin Campbell
Screenplay by Jeffrey Caine and Bruce Feirstein
Story by Michael France
Produced by Michael G Wilson and Barbara Broccoli
Executive producer Tom Pevsner
Associate producer Anthony Waye
Production designer Peter Lamont
Second unit director Ian Sharp
Additional unit directed and photographed by Arthur Wooster BSC
Director of photography Phil Meheux BSC
Editor Terry Rawlings
Special effects supervisor Chris Corbould
Costume designer Lindy Hemming
Stunt co-ordinator Simon Crane
Main title designed by Daniel Kleinman
James Bond Pierce Brosnan;
Alec Trevelyan (006) Sean Bean; Natalya Fyodorovna Simonova Izabella
Scorupco; Xenia Onatopp Famke Janssen; Jack Wade Joe Don Baker;
M Judi Dench; Valentine Zukovsky Robbie Coltrane; Defense
Minister Dimitri Mishkin Tcheky Karyo; Colonel/General Arkady Grigovich
Ourumov Gottfried John; Boris Grishenko Alan Cumming; Q Desmond
Llewelyn; Miss Moneypenny Samantha Bond; Bill Tanner Michael
Kitchen;
It gets a little better each time I watch it. More
of a straight spy story, rather than a formula Bond film.
The premise is good. Two Double-0's up against each
other. Unfortunately, the execution is underplayed. Brosnan is better than expected as
Bond. I feared a Roger Moore copy, but Brosnan played 007 more seriously than expected.
He also plays Bond more like a cardboard cutout in places. He tries too hard
to be the TOUGH secret agent of the books, but it doesn't work for him too well (in my
opinion).
I also notice that this film is very episodic.
It seems that it's more of a collection of little episodes tied together by fade-in
and fade-out rather than a cohesive film and I chalk this up to direction and film editing
than anything else.
As a whole, the movie was too different. A new Bond,
Moneypenny, M as well as a non-John Barry soundtrack, new director, revamped gun barrel
opening effect, etc was too much for me to take!
Did you know...
- Pierce Brosnan was supposed to replace Roger Moore in
1987's The Living Daylights, but NBC prevented him by signing for a few more
"Remington Steele" episodes!
- Check out Boris' computer screen at the Russian space
agency facility while he's sending the spike to the CIA... the lower left hand corner
shows a changing icon which switches between two communicators from Star Trek!
- Joe Don Baker was also in The Living Daylights
- Goldeneye was the name of Ian Fleming's home in
Jamaica, which he named after Carson McCullers' "Reflections in a Goldeneye"!
The end of Goldeneye... But James Bond will
return in...
Tomorrow Never Dies
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