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General Info - GoldenEye (1995)

After six years of waiting Bond was back! After long legal ranglings between Eon Productions and MGM/UA ended in 1992 a huge push was made to get Bond back on the big screen. Things had changed since the agent's last outing, Licence To Kill - the Cold War had ended and the U.S.S.R. was no more. Those two key facts had contributed most to the Bond missions since Dr. No. That said, GoldenEye was still concerned with the Russians some five years after the break up of the Soviet Union.

GoldenEye was produced in a former Rolls Royce factory outside London as Pinewood Studios was being used by a Sean Connery film... (I think it was a nice touch to remain in Blighty to produce the film considering that Licence To Kill was made in Mexico.)

The Plot

Bond and colleague Alec Trevelyan (006) are sent on a mission to destroy a Russian nerve gas factory. The mission does not go to plan as 006 is captured and executed by General Ourumov. Nine years later, and in a new guise, 'M' tells Bond that a Russian weapons system, GoldenEye has been stolen and could be in the hands of crime kingpin Janus, who operates in post Cold War Russia. Bond finds out that Janus is actually his former comrade-in-arms, 006 who is working in conjunction with Ouromov in a grand plan whereby the City Of London is robbed electronically then has GoldenEye fired over it conceal the offence. With Natalya Simonova by his side, Bond tracks Trevelyan down to Cuba where the duo get into the defector's lair. In an intense battle, Trevelyan is killed and the GoldenEye is prevented from carrying out the devastating plot.

Budget: $50m - Gross: $350m - Fastrac007 Rating: 67%