17th movie and the first Pierce Brosnan-movie. Together with Judi Dench as M and Samantha Bond (haha) as Moneypenny. Q is still Q. It was also 6 years after the last movie so that was the longest delay between Bond-movies and still is. It begins in Archangels as 007 infiltrates a chemical plant together with 006. The mission goes wrong when 006 is captured by General Ourumov. 006 is shoot and Bond blows the plant up after escaping on an airplane. Credits and we go 9 years into the future. During an evaluation in Monaco Bonds encounters an operative of the Janus syndicate, Xenia Onatopp who seems to take a Canadian admiral to a yacht owned by Janus.
Infiltrating the ship the next day he finds the corpse of the admiral and figures out that the target is the showing of a new french military helicopter. It's invisible for the radar and can withstand an electric magnetic pulse (EMP). He can't stop it being stolen and returns to London. The helicopter travels to Russia and an old military space base which contains the keys to a weapon called GoldenEye. A couple of satellites that can once shoot an EMP. Xenia works together with Ourumov as they take the keys together with the hacker Boris that worked on the base. The only survivor is Natalya Simonova after Xenia kills all the worker and sets one of the satellites to fire at the base to hide the theft.
In London they watched the theft in realtime by satellite until the EMP blows all equipment. Connecting the fact that the Tiger Helicopter was at the place and probably stolen by the Janus syndicate Bond is sent to Moscow to confront the unknown leader of Janus. In Moscow he meets the CIA-agent Wade (who is played by John Don Baker that played Whitaker in the Living Daylights) that shows him to an ex-KGB-agent turned mob boss that leads him to Janus that turns out to be the very much, but scarred 006. 007 is knocked out and put in the Tiger Helicopter together with Natalya that searched for Boris the hacker and got caught by the bad guys. After escaping the heat seeking missiles they are taken in by the Russian military. The Russian Defence minister is questioning them, but seems to be aware of Ourumov's foul play. Doesn't help much when Ourumov appears, kills the minister, escapes with Natalya and Bond chases after them with a tank.
Ourumov escapes to an armoured train where 006 is. They use Natalaya as hostage to ensure that Bond can't kill them. Doesn't help that much since Ourumov gets killed, but 007 and Natalya is looked on the train with a bomb as 006 and Xenia escapes. Natalya tracks Boris with some hacker mumbo jumbo and that leads to Cuba. They escape the train and we are in Cuba. Wade gives them a plane, they get shot down from a secret base under a lake and taken in. Action, explosions. The plan of 006 is to fire the last GoldeEye on London after they hacked the banks and stolen all money to destroy the trace back to them, and also so that 006 can get vengeance on the British for betraying the cosacks in 2nd World War which was 006 family or something like that. Bonds blows everything up and then the marines and Wade show up from Guantanamo... another poor choice by the Bond crew after 9/11.
On one hand, I haven't seen it that much, but I played the N64 game a lot more so the first parts of the movie I know fully well. Never finished it though. For some reason I never got that they where in St. Petersburg, I thought they where in Minsk, Belarus. Don't know why I thought that. Back to the movie, watching it now... it's alright, but I don't get the nostalgia like for the older movies (even though I pretty much have seen all of them around the same time). It could also be due the effects not giving that aura of fantasy since the picture quality might be too good. Most of the time I couldn't see the tricks and miniatures on the old movies beside the documentaries, but here I clearly saw that it was a miniature setting they crashed the MIG-plane into and the heat seeking missiles on the Tiger looks really fake.
Could also be that there doesn't seem to be the same documentaries that existed for every other movie, might be that there was more things saved that was shown around the release. I still want an explanation why Dalton quit, why it took 6 years for the next movie and the casting process for the other. And the other actors as well. They had Baker for The Living Daylights, why not his other Bond-movies? And the discussion of the music? It has some decent sounding themes, but they aren't that bombastic, and John Barry said himself that the sound should sound bombastic. But the main theme is nice, didn't know Bono wrote it. I should actually like the movie more than I do now, since I was obsessed with helicopters as a kid, with reruns of AirWolf and such. Maybe it's because the helicopter seems very much like the helicopter from the Batman the Animated Series.
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