Review of GoldenEye (1995) by Gamepro3093 — 19 Aug 2020

A movie more suited to Timothy Dalton isn’t nearly as good of a fit for Pierce Brosnan. He looked pretty uncomfortable and unsure of himself, not what I expect for James Bond. Timothy Dalton displayed more confidence and charm in The Living Daylights ( less so in Licence To Kill but that had more to do with the rubbish script and direction than his abilities).

A shame that after the promise the Dalton era showed for the series with it’s more gritty and down to earth approach that the series headed right back to the worst aspects of the Roger Moore and Sean Connery era immediately after this movie.

I blame a good chunk of that on Brosnan as he didn’t have any real vision for the character. He’s full of fluff when he talks about this so called vision he had of making the character more like he was in the novels.

The World Is Not Enough and moments here and there were the closest he ever got. Most of the time he was just a pale imitation of Roger Moore and Sean Connery. His initial goal was to blend the 2 actors and their take on the character with somewhat of the more gritty Dalton take but it never quite got there.