Amazon Prime Video original film GoldenEye was released November 13th, 1995.
#GoldenEye made $352.1M at the international box office.
rottentomatoes: 80%
metacritic: 65
imdb: 7.2
James Bond
Special Agent 007 dismantles a cyber attack in Moscow, Russia.
“Beg your pardon. Forgot to knock. I’m alone. I had to stop in the bathroom. AFter you, 006. For England, Alec. It’s too easy. And the other half? Six minutes. Check. Buy me a pint. How original. Shit the door, Alec. There’s a draught. Alec?” — James Bond
“More often than you’d think. The next girl. What’s that, dear? Engine? We’re having a pleasant drive and you bring psychology into it. Let’s put that behind us, shall we? Ladies first. Really? As you can see, I have no problem with female authority. Let’s toast your evaluation, shall we? A very thorough evaluation.” — James Bond
“Bonsoir, Pierre. Ca va bien? Banco. It appears we share the same passions. Three, anyway. One rises to meet a challenge. Suivez. Carte. The very words I live by. And what words do you live by? That’s one trick I’ve never learned. Perhaps you’ll show me how it’s done. Vodka martini. Shaken, not stirred. And for you? How do you take it? The name’s Bond. James Bond. Onatopp? Your accent… Georgian? Not recently. I used to drop in occasionally. Shoot in and out. With a new Ferrari in every garage?” — James Bond
“A tip for your friend: the French number plates for this year’s model start with ‘L.’ Even the counterfeit ones. Commander. I like a woman who enjoys pulling rank. The pleasure, I’m sure, was all mine.” — James Bond
“Good evening, Moneypenny. Never seen you after hours. Lovely. Out on some kind of assignment? Dressing to kill? Moneypenny, I’m devastated. What would I ever do without you? Hope springs eternal. Really? What’s the penalty for that? After you, Moneypenny. Tanner. What’s up? In the middle of northern Russia? Your hunch was right. Too bad the evil queen of numbers wouldn’t let you play it.” — James Bond
“Good evening, M. What do you think the base is used for? Numbers were never my strong suit. Are these pictures live? No lights. Not one single electric light on in a 30-mile radius. EMP? And the blackout. Yes. No. The helicopter. For stealing the GoldenEye, it was the perfect getaway vehicle. Setting off the blast would wipe out any trace of the crime. It may be linked to the helicopter. I know the Russian fail-safe systems. You just don’t walk in and ask for the keys to the bomb. You need the access codes. There had to be an insider. At least one person probably knows who it is.” — James Bond
“Government’s change. The lies stay the same. Top-flight arms dealers, headquartered in St. Petersburg. Restocked the Iraqis during the Gulf War. The head man’s unreliably described. No photographs. The woman, Onatopp, is our only confirmed contact. Thank you. Your predecessor kept some cognac… yes. Ourumov. They made him a general. Are these the same analysts who said that GoldenEye couldn’t exist? Who said the helicopter posed no threat and wasn’t worth following?” — James Bond
“The thought had occurred to me. Point taken. You didn’t get him killed. Never.” — James Bond
M
“You were saying? Good. Because if I want sarcasm, I’ll talk to my children, thank you very much. Good evening, 007. The prime minister’s waiting for an update. Proceed with your briefing, Mr. Tanner. Our statistical analysis saw they had neither the finance nor technology. Unlike the American government, we prefer not to get our bad news from CNN.”
“It looks like the third went down with the dish. What do you think? Americans and Soviets in the Cold War. I’ve read the brief. Discovered after Hiroshima. Set off a nuclear device in the upper atmosphere. Creates a pulse, a radiation surge, that destroys everything electronic. So, GoldenEye exists. Could this be an accident? The Janus group?”
“Very well, sir. Thank you. Good night. The prime minister’s talked to Moscow. It was ‘an accident on a training exercise.’ What else do we know about Janus? Would you care for a drink? I prefer bourbon. Ice? We pulled the files on whoever may have had access or authority at Severnaya. The top name on the list’s an old friend of yours, I understand. He sees himself as the next ‘iron man of Russia.’ Our political analysts say he doesn’t fit the profile of a traitor.”
“You don’t like me, Bond. You don’t like my methods. You think I’m an accountant, more interested in numbers than your instincts. Good. Because I think you’re a sexist, misogynist dinosaur, a relic of the Cold War, whose boyish charms, though wasted on me, obviously appealed to that young woman I sent out to evaluate you. Not quite, 007. If you think I don’t have the balls to send a man out to die, your instincts are dead wrong. I’ve no compunction about sending you to your death. But I won’t do it on a whim, even with you cavalier attitude towards life.”
“I want you to find GoldenEye. Find who took it, what they plan to do with it, and stop it. If you come across Ourumov, guilty or not, don’t run off on a vendetta. Avenging Alec Trevelyan will not bring him back. Neither did you. Don’t make it personal. Bond… come back alive.”
Natalya Simonova
“Select Mir. Orthographic projection. Compute possible intercept with second-stage geo-sat two. Anna. Boris. Boris. What’s the password? You’ve hacked into the US Department of Justice. What if they trace it here? You were sayin, slug-head? Come on, Boris. Just hang up. All right. What’s the password? Okay. Let me guess. It’s not in front of me?”
“I’m getting some coffee.”
“Natalya Fyodorovna Simonova.”
Xenia Onatopp
“I count two– motoring and baccarat. I hope the third is where your real talent lies. Double. Buliatch. Enjoy it while it lasts. The trick is to quit while you’re ahead. The same. Straight up, with a twist. Thank you, Mr… Xenia Zaragevna Onatopp. Onatopp. Very good, Mr. Bond. You’ve been to Russia. It’s very different now. A land of opportunity. No, not quite. That belongs to a friend. And what rank do you hold with the motor vehicles department, Mr. Bond? This one is an admiral. Nice to meet you, Mr. Bond.”
“Lyubeemyets. Yes! Yes! I have a small surprise from your friends at the barracks. Not yet. It’s clean. I had to ventilate someone.”
Moneypenny / MI6
“James, is it necessary to drive so fast? I enjoyed a spirited stride as much as the next girl, but… who’s that? James, stop this. Stop it. I know what you’re doing. You are trying to show off the size of your… ego. I was just sent here to evaluate you. James, I want you to stop this car. Stop this car at once. James, you’re incorrigible. What am I going to do with you?”
“Transmission begins from Moneypenney. Identification confirmed: Onatopp, Xenia. Ex-Soviet fighter pilot. Currently suspected links to the Janus crime syndicate, St. Petersburg. Yacht ‘Manticore’ is leased to a known Janus corporate front. M authorizes you to observe Miss Onatopp, but stipulates no contact without prior approval. End of transmission. Moneypenny. Good night, James. I trust you’ll stay ‘onatopp’ of things.”
“Good evening, James. M will meet you in the Situation Room. I’m to take you in. Thank you, James. I know you’ll find this crushing, 007, but I don’t sit at home praying for an international incident so I can run down here all dressed up to impress James Bond. I was on a date with a gentleman. We went to the theatre. As far as I can remember, James, you’ve never had me. This sort of behavior could qualify as sexual harassment. Someday you have to make good on your innuendoes. No, I insist. You first.”
“Good evening, 007. 16 minutes ago, we intercepted a distress call from a supposedly abandoned radar station at Severnaya. Look. We found a match. Your missing Tiger. No, no. I was just… just… thank you. Yes, after the distress signal, your helicopter took off and the Russians had three MiGs intercept it. We suspected it might be the ground station for a secret space-based weapon called GoldenEye, but…”
“Negative so far. Everything seems normal. What the blood hell was that? Thanks. Our satellite is knocked out. So are two of the Americans’. We have another, coming into range now. Good God. Two of the MiGs are down. It would explain the MiGs and satellites. Electromagnetic pulse. A weapon developed by the… the idea being to knock out the enemy’s communications before they can retaliate.”
Alec Trevelyan
“Ni odnoho vyzdoha. Gdye vashy? Aren’t we all? You’re late, 007. Ready to save the world again? James… for England. Half of everything is luck, James. Fate. Set timers: six minutes. Closing time, James. Last call. Finish the job, James. Blow them to hell. For England, James.”
The Russians
“Good morning, General Ourumov. Please, deliver your report.”
“It seems the council does not want your head, Arkady Grigorovich. Merely your assurance that there are no other GoldenEyes. And what of the two missing Severnaya technicians? There was a girl also, whose body was not among the dead. Natalya Fyodorovna Simonova. A level-two programmer.”
Monaco
“Bonsoir, Monsieur Bond. Tres heureux de vous revoir. Tres bien. Et vous? Sept a la banque. Madame wins. Bet, mademoiselle? Non? Monsieur. Bets, ladies and gentlemen? No players? Huit, pour la banque. Seven. Madame wins. Madame stands with five. Six. Madame loses. Shall we go?”
“Xenia, I can’t breathe. Merci, mon amiral. My respects, Admiral. Delighted to have you aboard, mademoiselle. Ladies and gentlemen, please take your seats for the demonstration of the aircraft. What you are about to see is Europe’s answer to the electronic battlefield: the first working prototype of the Tiger helicopter. Uniquely maneuverable, the Tiger not only uses Stealth technology, it is hardened against all forms of electronic interference, radio jamming and electromagnetic radiation. I think I’ve gone to heaven.”
“Please welcome the pilots. Lieutenant Commander Bernard Jaubert and Lieutenant Francois Brouse.”
Russian Space Station
“He wouldn’t know a woman if one came up and sat on his head.”
“What? I thought I’d post it on the Internet, no? I made it easy this time. Even you should be able to break it, borscht-for-brains. All right. All right. I’ll give you a hint. They’re right in front of you and can open very large doors. You’re such a geek. Yes. I’m in.”
“The chief of computers will call me a genius, move me to Moscow and give me a million bucks hard currency. I think not. Besides, the Americans are slug-heads. They’ll never detect me. Nobody screws with Boris Grishenko. Spiked them. No way. I spiked them. I’m not going to tell you. You sit on it, but you can’t take it with you. My program seizes the phone line of whoever’s tracing me and jams their modem so they can’t hang up. Now the hunted becomes the hunter. ‘Better luck next time, slug-heads.’ Bang. Gone. I am invincible. Was it good for you, too? I’m going for a cigarette.”
“General, if I’d known… two operational satellites, sir, Petya and Mischa, in 90-minute earth orbit at 100km.”
General Ourumov
“Fire. This is Colonel Ourumov. Come out with your hands up. Move out. Throw down your weapon and walk towards me, slowly. You have ten seconds. Ten, nine, eight, seven, six, five, four, three, two… hold your fire. You’ll blow the gas tanks. This is your last chance. Come out with your hands… wait. You can’t win. Get out there. Move. Move it. Hold your fire. Wait.”
“General Arkady Grigorovich Ourumov, head of Space Division. You’d have been ready. This is an unscheduled test of Severnaya, Major. War simulation. We are going to test-fire GoldenEye. Report your status. Good. Here is the authorization code. Now, the GoldenEye and today’s access numbers for satellite Petya, please. I am timing you.”
“Good. Thank you, Major. On my count. Three, two, one… set target. Severnaya. Arm the weapon. Check it. Their best response time is 19 minutes. They’ll be late.”
“Defense Minister Mishkin… gentlemen. As you know, 72 hours ago, a secret weapons system- codename GoldenEye- was detonated over Severnaya. As head of Space Division, I personally undertook the investigation. I have concluded this crime was committed by Siberian separatists seeking to create political unrest. Regrettably, the peaceful work and the hard-currency earnings of Severnaya have been set back by several years. Therefore, I tender my resignation. I can give you that assurance, Defense Minister. I was aware only of the one. Boris Grishenko. I will investigate immediately.”
