Goldeneye: Critic Reviews

I don't know whether the Bond series has a future, but if Xenia Onatopp ever returns to try for world domination, he may finally get a battle worth fighting.

Suffers the blahs.

It's BS -- Babes and Stunts -- and that's where GoldenEye excels.

Directed with top-dollar proficiency (and some real wit).

Watching the film, I got caught up in the special effects and the neat stunts, and I observed with a certain satisfaction Bond's belated entry into a more modern world.

There's something a mite pathetic about our culture still clinging to 007, but it's hard to deny that this is one of the most entertaining entries in the Bond cycle.

Among the better of the 17 Bonds and, perhaps more important for today's audience, a dynamic action entry in its own right, this first 007 adventure in six years breathes fresh creative and commercial life into the 33-year-old series.

Perhaps the best entry in the series since The Spy Who Loved Me.

Richard Kiel, you are missed.

A reasonable facsimile more than any kind of original, and it's hard not to feel a certain weariness while watching it unfold.

One of the more entertaining entries in the series, even if one thinks it's hogwash.

Se acerta ao trazer um Bond mais amadurecido, amargurado e auto-consciente, peca terrivelmente por elementos que beiram o trash, como alguns efeitos visuais pavorosos e uma atuacao sensual, mas absurda, de Janssen.

This is the best bond movie since On Her Majesty's Secret Service.

Brosnan is a stylish 007, the action is fast and the overall result hugely entertaining.

Lean, dark and graceful, Brosnan wraps his perfectly calculated accent around all the standard phrases without making us hear quotation marks.

Fast and light.

Pierce is fantastic

...a solid, sporadically electrifying entry in this ongoing series.

It's only slightly better than the movies of the last fifteen years or so, but that alone makes it worth seeing. License to Kill was so absolutely horrid, that I'm relieved to see an upswing.

Director Campbell keeps matters bowling along and even manages to recapture something of the look of the earlier films.

The entry that salvages the franchise.

Execs at MGM/UA can rest easy: the Bond franchise has been successfully salvaged.

Instead of continuing as a comedy of thrills, Goldeneye rapidly disintegrates into an endless series of gratuitous explosions and suspense-free motor vehicle chases, each one louder and less interesting than its predecessor.

Pierce Brosnan turns in a fine performance, establishing himself as a fine heir to the Bond throne. The plotting isn't as solid as in the best Bond films, but this is still a good time.