GoldenEye
When a powerful secret defense system is stolen, James Bond is assigned to stop a Russian crime syndicate from using it.
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Director
Martin Campbell
Writer
Jeffrey Caine, Bruce Feirstein, Ian Fleming, Michael France
Studio
EON Productions
Release
1995-11-16
Runtime
2h 10m
Genres
Adventure, Action, Thriller
Cast & Characters
James Bond
Pierce Brosnan
Alec Trevelyan
Sean Bean
Natalya Simonova
Izabella Scorupco
Xenia Onatopp
Famke Janssen
Jack Wade
Joe Don Baker
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Judi Dench
Valentin Zukovsky
Robbie Coltrane
Dmitri Mishkin
Tchéky Karyo
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Critical Assessment
GoldenEye holds 7.2/10 on IMDb (288K votes), 81% on Rotten Tomatoes, with a 83% audience score.
Critics and audiences are broadly aligned on this one.
Ratings as of August 3, 2026
AI Verdict
AI-generatedGoldenEye's 7.2 IMDb average and 81% Rotten Tomatoes score place it solidly mid-pack in the 60-plus-year Bond franchise.
Fan & Critic Buzz
The public reaction to GoldenEye is largely positive, with some considering it a solid entry into the series. Pierce Brosnan is praised as a great Bond, and Sean Bean's villainous performance is highlighted. The film's plot is seen as thin by some but helped by its characters and action.
Reviews
Really solid entry into the series with Brosnan, who is personally my favorite Bond, is great. The plot is on the thin side but is helped having Sean Bean as the sinister villain and of course Famke Janssen makes for an amazingly sexy psychopath with, ahem, incredible thighs. **4…
JPV852 · 8/10_**The Russia installment, plus Pierce Brosnan’s debut**_ Agent 007 (Pierce Brosnan) returns to Russia to investigate the theft of a space-based electromagnetic pulse weapon, which destroyed a radar facility in Siberia with only one survivor (Izabella Scorupco). Sean Bean plays a…
Wuchak · 7/10**Goldeneye is the gold standard of spy movies and Bond films.** Goldeneye edges out Casino Royale and Skyfall as my favorite Bond film of all time. After decades of campy James Bond movies like Octopussy and A View to a Kill, Bond felt more like a punchline than a suave master s…
The Movie Mob · 10/10Well, it was nice to see Bond back on the screen, and just in time for me to get my Drivers License, so this isn't the 1st 007 film I ever saw on the big screen, but it's the first that I got to drive myself to. And I remember that the media kept asking "who will be 007's villain…
GenerationofSwine · 10/10This 007 movie begins with Bond and a fellow agent performing heroics, and the other agent is killed. However, even when this movie was made, it is quite obvious that the other agent wasn't killed, and that he is actually the villain. That isn't even a spoiler. Bond deals with Ru…
drystyx · 2/10This actually starts out quite promisingly with a double-hander between Pierce Brosnan's "007" and his colleague "006/Alec" (Sean Bean) having a battle royal then a rogue general pinching the controls for a deadly satellites system - and that's pretty much all before Tina Turner…
CinemaSerf · 6/10GoldenEye is another favourite of mine that is so close to being top 5 Bond.
tmdb93836550 · 9/10
