GoldenEye Is Proof That Pierce Brosnan Was a Great James Bond Who Never Got a Great James Bond Film. Pierce Brosnan, | Carey Mulligan, | What Empire called “the most important ten minutes in Bond’s career” didn’t just bring 007 back with a banging bungee jump off a dam, or expertly tease the reveal of Brosnan (because it was really a stuntman). | A divorced couple scheme to recover the retirement money that was stolen from them. Chris Columbus Dylan McDermott, | Director: $17.85M, PG-13 Edgar Wright A very rich and successful playboy amuses himself by stealing artwork, but may have met his match in a seductive detective. Director: David Jackson | Stars: Pierce Brosnan, Patrick Stewart, Alexandra Paul, Ted Levine Stars: Tim Burton 90 min Director: | Director: | Mark Bringelson, Votes: Sophie Vavasseur, Votes: A simple man is turned into a genius through the application of computer science. Ben Gazzara, Votes: Rosamund Pike, Celia Imrie, Votes: 179,712 | Gross: Jon Bernthal, Votes: Bill Smitrovich, Votes: A humble businessman with a buried past seeks justice when his daughter is killed in an act of terrorism. (Liking it is fashionable now, less so then.). Pierce Brosnan, Rosamund Pike, Votes: 119 min Stars: 155,362 Ewan McGregor, $144.13M, R | Comedy. Susan Sarandon, Votes: Olivia Williams, | Karen Moskow, $1.48M, PG-13 | Jeff Bridges, Studios Learned The Wrong Lesson From 'Tenet', Sean Connery's Bond Legacy Will Live On Forever, Remi Weekes on the Haunting Ending of 'His House', Recommended Re-Viewing: Hoop Dreams Still Rules, 5 Sean Connery Films That Aren't James Bond, The Lasting Impact of Sean Connery's Style, ESQUIRE, PART OF THE HEARST UK FASHION & BEAUTY NETWORK. | Alison Doody, Katie Leung, 97 min | Stars: Leo Dolan, R Pierce Brosnan, | November 24 2020 marks 25 years since the release of 1995’s GoldenEye. Stars: The story of a bride-to-be trying to find her real father told using hit songs by the popular 1970s group ABBA. | Pierce Brosnan, Lauren Bacall, Pierce Brosnan, Halle Berry, The story of what happens after a master thief achieves his last big score, when the F.B.I. By the time he finally took on the role, the franchise was in peril. Famke Jansen’s femme fatale might’ve just been Alotta Fagina, so to speak, if she weren’t an indelible sicko who gets off on crushing men to death between her legs. 98 min Stars: Pierce Brosnan, | $12.42M, R $160.94M, PG-13 Subscribe to Esquire now for a hit of style, fitness, culture and advice from the experts. Spectre tried to bring back the trademark Bond humour hitherto mostly lacking in the Craig era but only succeeded in undermining any tension - like when Bond gets stuck behind a slow-driving pensioner while fleeing Mr Hinx, who has just gouged out a colleague’s eyes at the all-hands meeting with his otherwise pointless metal thumbs. Meryl Streep, GoldenEye’s bruising satellite dish showdown was inspired by From Russia With Love’s brutal train fight between Bond and Red Grant, technically a glorified henchman but effectively a great villain because, like Trevelyan, he’s established as an anti-Bond (only bigger, stronger and meaner) who makes you really fear for 007’s wellbeing. | A millionaire has his life turned upside down after firing his I.T. James Bond is sent to investigate the connection between a North Korean terrorist and a diamond mogul, who is funding the development of an international space weapon. A drama that is centered around a troubled teenage girl, and a family that is trying to get over the loss of their son. Four people meet on New Year's Eve, and form a surrogate family to help one another with the difficulties of their lives. And his budget of $55m for GoldenEye was, even in those days, measly for a “big” action film. $0.30M, R | Gross: He ends up as only survivor on a desolate island. Comedy, Drama, Thriller. | 108 min ), Admittedly, GoldenEye has more than its fair share of one-liners, plus a standard-issue comic-relief briefing by Desmond Llewelyn’s Q. Roger Donaldson | Director: | | | Mark Tandy, Votes: Jackie Chan, Pierce Brosnan OBE is an Irish actor, film producer, and environmental activist. John Preston is a British Agent with the task of preventing the Russians detonating a nuclear explosion next to an American base in the UK. | Helen Mirren, Amanda Seyfried, $0.01M, R 208,453 | (Thankfully I didn’t understand that enough as a boy to be overly disturbed.) Their rivalry is especially perilous for 007, and personal - but not as contrived as Blofeld being Bond’s stepbrother. Comedy, Romance. That’s swiftly followed by Bond quaffing martinis in a casino and blithely introducing himself to Xenia Zaragevna Onatopp: “Onatopp?” “Onatopp.”. But he more than repaid the producers’ faith, breaking franchise box office records and ushering in a new Bond era - a trick he repeated with Casino Royale. $13.73M, PG Director: | | Gross: John Moore | | Gross: Tom Vaughan Joanna Cassidy, Votes: