![]() ![]() ![]() The movie delivered cutting-edge action and spectacular stunts, and Pierce Brosnan was the perfect Bond for the blithe ’90s - flinty enough to seem heroic when it mattered, but with that trademark smirking insouciance that let the audience know we’re still not supposed to take this stuff seriously. Or perhaps it doesn’t, given that its only real purpose was to make a lot of money, which it did, launching Bond firmly back into the box office stratosphere. With capitalism having so resoundingly taken Soviet Communism to the mat, you’d think there would be no more need for the superspy, which is perhaps why the film feels a bit all over the place trying to balance the old with the new. Ironically, despite the M (Judi Dench) line quoted above, the film still played like the series didn’t know the Cold War was over, with a plot involving satellite weapons and Russian villains, even though Goldeneye was not only the first Bond film to be shot in Russia but also to be shown in Russian theaters. It would take a big splash, especially a half-decade after the end of the Cold War, to get people interested again. Six years after the second of Timothy Dalton’s two Bond pictures, License to Kill, withered and died under the box office crush of Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, Batman, and Lethal Weapon 2, 007 had fallen completely off the cultural radar. James Bond 007: GoldenEye - Official® Trailer ![]()
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