Goldeneye (1995)

Rating: 80%


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Length:

125 minutes

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Review Format:

DVD

Year:

1995

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Predominant Genre:

Action

Director:

Outstanding Performances:

Premiss:

James Bond teams up with the lone survivor of a destroyed research center to stop the hijacking of a nuclear space weapon by a fellow agent believed to be dead.

Themes:

Alienation

Compassion

Courage

Curative

Destiny

Emotional repression

Empathy

Genocide

Guilt

Identity

Individualism

Loneliness

Materialism

Narcissism

Personal

Political

Political Correctness

Republicanism

Sadomasochism

Schizophrenia

Sex

Solipsism

White culture

White supremacy

Similar to:

Living Daylights

Perestroika for 007

Summary: Above-average Bond-movie.

Best thing about this above-average 007 adventure is Izabella SCORUPCO as a spunky heroine with genuine acting talent, personality & sexual charisma. Famke JANSSEN also does well as the villainess in the underwritten role of a murderess sexually-aroused by the murders she commits - she even outperforms the unconvincing principal villain.

The trademark Carry On sexual humor is well in evidence, but the plot is trite and rather silly – still, the action is first-rate. Nevertheless, the story flounders in post-glasnost territory. It desperately seeks suitable baddies in a post-Cold War world that, ironically, agents of decadent capitalist-imperialism - such as James Bond - helped bring about: Talk about being a victim of your own political success! The movie-makers recognize this in the symbolic graveyard-of-Soviet-Communism scene.

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