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Visually Impressive Bond Film
GOLDENEYE is Pierce Brosnan's first film as James Bond. I think many of the older Bond fans expected a performance in the vein of Roger Moore. Surprisingly, Brosnan seems more like a hybrid of Sean Connery and Timothy Dalton, combing the best elements that each brought to the role. He possesses intelligence, wit, charm and dedication and delivers these with no-nonsense passion and drive. Martin Campbell's direction is on target. GOLDENEYE is a great looking film beautifully filmed by Phil Meheux for mood, atmosphere and action. Some of the film's high points are the miniatures by Derek Meddings. This is probably Derek Meddings' best work in the series. Production Designer Peter Lamont shows greater depths with each Bond film he works on. This is some of his best work since OCTOPUSSY and the massive underground mine he designed for A VIEW TO A KILL. The return of the Astin Martin DB5 is a very welcome sight. Eric Serra's original if controversial score is good in retrospect complementing the work of Meheux and Lamont. Serra's interpretation of "The James Bond Theme" over the opening gun barrel trademark is powerful and very innovative. One cannot appreciate Serra's contribution to this film unless the audio is played through a surround stereo system with a good amount of bass and volume pumped up. This is one of the better Bond films.<
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Cold War Atmosphere Abounds in GoldenEye
GOLDENEYE is a fantastic `post-cold war' espionage film. Pierce Brosnan's screen personification of James Bond is one of the best. Many of us expected a lighter interpretation of the character but we were pleasantly surprised. Instead Brosnan gave a very no-nonsense performance of Fleming's dedicated civil servant. We even get a Fleming-like villain named Xenia Onatopp deliriously played by Famke Janssen thrown in for good measure. Several of the production crew did their best work on this film. Derek Meddings' miniature work is the best of the series. Composer Eric Sera gave us one of the most innovative scores since John Barry. This was a new James Bond entering a new era and the music was right on target. There must be a very large army of lobbyists out there who just will not give up on the notion that John Barry's way is the only way. Unfortunately this is Eric Sera's only James Bond score. It was good to see Desmond Llewelyn return as "Q" and give Brosnan a good step in the right direction. It was good to see the Astin Martin DB5 again. They had to retain a little bit of continuity. I thought the action scenes in this film were excellently filmed especially the fight between Bond and Trevelyan inside the satellite dish. It was pretty intense. All in all this is a good James Bond film. It is moody and very atmospheric depicting a world where Bond may have outgrown his usefulness.