"GoldenEye was the first to star Pierce Brosnan as 007, the first to see Judi Dench as M, and the first film to challenge its own franchise identity. As M crisply says to Bond: I think you are a sexist, misogynist dinosaur and a relic of the cold war although her criticism of her star agent begins and ends with that description."
"There are other historical points of interest: like many 90s films, it is waking up to the possibilities of the online world, with blocky computer graphics of Microsoft Internet Explorer vintage and quaint Chicago font. Alan Cumming plays a figure who was to become an almost indispensable staple of drama-thrillers for decades to come: the geeky, nerdy computer hacker who can conveniently perform near-magical feats inside a plausibly realist scenario."
GoldenEye (1995) reintroduces James Bond in a post‑Soviet world, marking Pierce Brosnan's first outing as 007 and Judi Dench's debut as M. The film contrasts Cold War relics with new threats, staging scenes among crumbling Soviet statues and invoking the Lienz Cossacks' repatriation. Early internet motifs appear through blocky Microsoft Internet Explorer–era graphics and Chicago font. Alan Cumming portrays a geeky hacker capable of dramatic technical feats. The plot opens with a Soviet facility infiltration alongside agent 006 (Sean Bean), resulting in disaster, then jumps nine years to a rogue Russian plot to steal the GoldenEye space weapon.
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