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Goldeneye Trailer

Synopsis:

World security is imperilled when an international terrorist organization calling itself Janus, steals top secret Russian weapons system called Goldeneye and threatens to use it to to destroy a major city unless paid off. Bond's mission is to recover the Goldeneye -- no easy task, for he is faced by a collection of utterly ruthless foes: beautiful, but sadistic, assassin Xenia Onatopp, treacherous General Ourumov, obsessive computer Boris Grishenko, and most devious of all, Bond's former MI6 colleague and friend, Alec Trevelyan (006).

Release Date:

• November 13, 1995

Plot:

• The destruction of all electronic devices in England

Box Office Results:

• $350.7 million

Running Time:

• 2 hours, 5 minutes

Gadgets:

• Grappling/Laser Gun
• Laser Equipped Omega
• Explosive Pen
• The GoldenEye
• Aston Martin DB5
• Tiger Helicopter

Director:

• Martin Campbell

Screenplay:

• Jeffrey Caine
• Bruce Feirstein

Title Song:

• Goldeneye

Title Song Artist:

• Tina Turner

Starring:

• Pierce Brosnan as James Bond

Villain:

• Sean Bean as Alec Trevelyan (Agent 006)

Henchmen:

• Famke Janssen as Xenia Zirgavna Onatopp
• Gottfried John as General Arkady Grigorovich Ourumov
• Alan Cumming as Boris Grishenko

Bond Girls:

• Izabella Scorupco as Natalya Fyodorovna Simonova
• Serena Gordon as Caroline

Supporting Cast:

• Tcheky Karyo as Defence Minister Dimitri Mishkin
• Michael Kitchen as Bill Tanner
• Judi Dench as M
• Desmond Llewelyn as Q
• Samantha Bond as Miss Moneypenny

• Joe Don Baker as Jack Wade
• Robbie Coltrane as Valentin Dimitrovich Zukovsky

Filming Locations:

• Arkangel Chemical Weapons Facility, USSR; Monte Carlo; French Riviera, France; Severnaya, Russia; London, UK; St Petersburg, Russia; Caribbean island; Cuba.

Best Quotes:

• Caroline: "I enjoy a spirited ride as much as the next girl.....Who's that?"
• Bond: "The next girl."

• Alec: "For England James?"
• Bond ''No, for me."

Best Mistake: (According to mi6.co.uk)

• The color of Bond's bungee rope in the opening sequence changes.

Distinguishing Feature (According to mi6.co.uk)

• The first film of the Pierce Brosnan era and the amazing tank chase in St. Petersburg

Vital Statistics (According to mi6.co.uk)

• Conquests: 2
• Martinis: 1
• Kills: 12
• "Bond, James Bond": 1

Trivia:

• If you look closely or if you have alreadly noticed that the DB5 that Brosnan drove in Goldenye had a different licence plate then the one used in Goldfinger, Thunderball. In Goldeneye the licence plate read BMT 216A, while in Goldinger and Thunderball it read BMT 214A.
• This is the last Bond film to be produced by Albert R. Broccoli.
• First film to star Pierce Brosnan playing Bond
• First James Bond film not to have Maurice Binder creating the titles.
• Pierce Brosnan was the ideal choice for Bond before Dalton, but contract troubles with Brosnan's hit show "Remmington Steele" kept him for taking up the role.

Detailed synopsis:

MI6 agents 007 (James Bond) and 006 (Alec Trevelyan) infiltrate an illicit Soviet chemical weapons facility at Arkhangel and plant explosive charges. Trevelyan is captured and shot by Colonel Arkady Ourumov, but Bond steals an airplane and escapes the exploding facility.






In London M assigns Bond to investigate the attack, and he flies to St. Petersburg to meet CIA agent Jack Wade, who suggests he meet Valentin Zukovsky , a Russian Mafia head and business rival of Janus. After Bond gives him a tip on a potential heist, Zukovsky arranges a meeting between Bond and Janus, who reveals himself as Trevelyan. A Lienz Cossack, Trevelyan faked his death, having vowed revenge against Britain for their involvement in his parents' deaths. He ties Bond up with Simonova in the Tiger helicopter programmed to self-destruct, which the two escape using its ejection system. They are immediately arrested by the Russian police and interrogated by the Minister of Defence, Dmitri Mishkin. Just as Simonova reveals the existence of a second satellite and Ourumov's involvement in the massacre at Severnaya, Ourumov bursts into the room, shooting Mishkin and dragging Simonova into a car. Bond steals a T-80 tank and audaciously pursues Ourumov through St. Petersburg to Janus' train, where he kills Ourumov as Trevelyan escapes, locking Bond in the train with Simonova. As the train's self-destruct countdown begins, Bond slices through the floor with his laser watch while Simonova locates Grishenko's satellite dish in Cuba. The two escape just before the train explodes.






In Cuba, Bond and Simonova fly a plane over the jungle before they are shot down. As they stumble out of it, Onatopp rappels down from a helicopter and tortures Bond, who resists and kills her. Minutes later, he and Simonova watch a lake being drained of its water, uncovering the dish. They infiltrate the control station, where Bond is captured by Trevelyan, who reveals his plan of stealing money from the Bank of England before destroying it with the remaining GoldenEye, concealing the theft and destroying Britain's economy.




Meanwhile, Simonova programs the satellite to initi ateatmospheric reentry and destroy itself. As Trevelyan captures Simonova and orders Grishenko to save the satellite, Bond triggers an explosion with his Parker Jotter pen grenade and escapes to the antenna cradle. Bond sabotages the antenna, preventing Grishenko from regaining control of the satellite, before turning and facing Trevelyan. Bond shoves Trevelyan off the antenna and into the dish before escaping aboard a helicopter commandeered by Simonova. The cradle collapses, crushing Trevelyan and rupturing liquid nitrogen tanks that freeze Grishenko. Meanwhile on the surface, while solacing each other, Bond and Simonova are rescued by Wade and his platoon of U.S. Marines.