GoldenEye
United Artists | Release Date: November 17, 1995 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
65
METASCORE
Generally favorable reviews based on 20 Critic Reviews
Positive:
13
Mixed:
7
Negative:
0
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60
The GuardianPeter Bradshaw
From the current vantage point, this film, not yet entirely dominated by digital effects, looks like a 1960s-vintage second world war film. Read full review
60
The New YorkerAnthony Lane
Jeffrey Caine and Bruce Feirstein's script promises more fun than it delivers, slowly frittering away its store of jokes and thrills. Read full review
58
Entertainment WeeklyOwen Gleiberman
Still, just about everything in Goldeneye, from its rote nuclear-weapon-in-space plot to the recitation of lines that sound like they're being read off stone tablets (''Shaken, not stirred!''), has been served up with a thirdhand generic competence that's more wearying than it is exhilarating. Read full review
50
The New York TimesJanet Maslin
Mr. Brosnan, as the best-moussed Bond ever to play baccarat in Monte Carlo, makes the character's latest personality transplant viable (not to mention smashingly photogenic), but the series still suffers the blahs. Read full review
50
NewsweekJack Kroll
Technology has squeezed character to a few measly pixels on the digital screens. Explosions have replaced dramatic climaxes. Read full review
50
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)Rick Groen
For devotees of the genre, the bad news is the best news: Bond is back and nothing has changed except the stuntman's canvas - it's bigger than ever, duly pumped up to Schwarzeneggarian standards. Read full review
50
TimeRichard Schickel
How well do Bond's established conventions survive after a third of a century's hard use, the post-cold war deglamourization of espionage and the arrival of yet another actor in the central role? The short answer is, on wobbly knees. Read full review
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