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The Man with the Golden Gun: The British superspy with a license to kill takes on his dark underworld double, a classy assassin who kills with golden bullets at $1 million a hit. Roger Moore, in his second outing as James Bond, meets Christopher Lee's Scaramanga, one of the most magnetic villains in the entire series, in this entertaining but rather wan entry in the 007 sweepstakes. Moore balances the overplayed humor of the film with a steely performance and Lee's charm and enthusiasm makes Scaramanga a cool, deadly, and thoroughly enchanting adversary. --Sean Axmaker

Goldfinger: To own Goldfinger (1964) on DVD is to have at your fingertips the proof that Sean Connery is the definitive James Bond. No one but Connery can believably seduce women so effortlessly, kill with almost as much ease, and then pull another bottle of Dom Perignon '53 out of the fridge. Goldfinger contains many of the most memorable scenes in the Bond series: gorgeous Shirley Eaton (as Jill Masterson) coated in gold paint by evil Auric Goldfinger and deposited in Bond's bed; silent Oddjob, flipping a razor-sharp derby like a Frisbee to sever heads; our hero spread-eagle on a table while a laser beam moves threateningly toward his crotch. Goldfinger's two climaxes, inside Fort Knox and aboard a private plane, have to be seen to be believed. --Raphael Shargel

The World Is Not Enough:Bond 5.0, Pierce Brosnan, undercuts his usually suave persona with a darker, more brutal edge largely absent since Sean Connery departed. Equally tantalizing are our initial glimpses of Bond's nemesis du jour, Renard (Robert Carlyle), and imminent love interest, Elektra King (Sophie Marceau), both atypically complex characters cast with seemingly shrewd choices, and directed by the capable Michael Apted. The story's focus on post-Soviet geopolitics likewise starts off on a savvy note, before being overtaken by increasingly Byzantine plot twists, hidden motives, and reversals of loyalty superheated by relentless (if intermittently perfunctory) action sequences.--Sam Sutherland

Diamonds Are Forever: Sean Connery retired from the 007 franchise after You Only Live Twice but was lured back for one last official appearance as James Bond in Diamonds Are Forever. Goldfinger director Guy Hamilton keeps the film zipping along gamely from one entertaining set piece to another, including a terrific car chase in a parking lot, a battle with a pair of bikini-clad killer gymnasts named Bambi and Thumper, and a deadly game with a bizarre pair of fey, sardonic killers who dispatch their victims with elaborate invention. Connery retired again after this one but he returned once more, for Never Say Never Again 15 years later. --Sean Axmaker

The Living Daylights: Timothy Dalton made his 007 debut in the lean, mean mode of Sean Connery, doing away with the pun-filled camp of Roger Moore's final outings. This James Bond is ruthless, tough, and romantic. The Living Daylights, set during the thaw of the cold war, begins with the defection of Russian KGB General Koskov (Jeroen Krabb) and his revelation of a Soviet plot to eliminate Britain's secret agent force. Assigned to eliminate Koskov's Soviet boss (John Rhys-Davies), Bond uncovers a conspiracy involving Koskov and an American arms dealer (Joe Don Baker). Veteran series director John Glen's action scenes have never been better--especially the show-stopping mid-air battle on the net of a speeding cargo plane--and he returns the series to the smart, rough, high-energy adventures that made the Bond reputation. --Sean Axmaker

A View to a Kill: Roger Moore's last outing as James Bond is evidence enough that it was time to pass the torch to another actor. Beset by crummy action (an out-of-control fire engine?) and featuring a fading Moore still trying to prop up his mannered idea of style, the film is largely interesting for Christopher Walken's quirky performance as a sort-of supervillain who wants to take out California's Silicon Valley. Grace Jones has a spookily interesting presence as a lethal associate of Walken's (and who, in the best Bond tradition, has sex with 007 before trying to kill him later), and Patrick Macnee (Steed!) has a warm if brief bit. Even directed by John Glen, who brought some crackle to the Moore years in the Bond franchise, this is a very slight effort. -- Tom Keogh

Thunderball: James Bond's fourth adventure takes him to the Bahamas, where a NATO warplane with a nuclear payload has disappeared into the sea. Bond (Sean Connery) travels from a tiny health spa (where he tangles with a mechanized masseuse run amuck) to the casinos of Nassau and soon picks up the trail of SPECTRE's number-two man, Emilio Largo (Adolfo Celi), and his beautiful mistress, Domino (Claudine Auger), whom Bond soon seduces to his side. Equipped with more gadgets than ever, 007 escapes an ambush with a personal-size jet pack and takes to the water as he searches for the undersea plane, battles Largo's pet sharks, and finally leads the battle against Largo's scuba-equipped henchmen in a spectacular underwater climax. This thrilling Bond entry became Connery's most successful outing in the series and was remade in 1983 as Never Say Never Again, with Connery returning to the role after a 12-year hiatus. --Sean Axmaker

Die Another Day: The 20th James Bond adventure, Die Another Day succeeds on three important fronts: it avoids comparison to Austin Powers by keeping its cheesy humor in check, allows Halle Berry to be sexy and worthy of a spinoff franchise, and keeps pace with the technical wizardry that modern action films demand. Pierce Brosnan is paired with American agent Jinx (Berry) in chasing a genetically altered North Korean villain (Rick Yune) armed with a satellite capable of destroying just about anything. John Cleese and Judi Dench reprise their recurring roles (as "Q" and "M," respectively); they're accompanied by weapons-laden sports cars, a hokey cameo by Madonna (who sings the techno-pulsed theme song), and enough double-entendres to keep Bond-philes adequately shaken and stirred. Die Another Day makes you welcome the familiar end-credits promise: James Bond will return. --Jeff Shannon

The Spy Who Loved Me: The best of the James Bond adventures starring Roger Moore as tuxedoed Agent 007, this globe-trotting thriller introduced the steel-toothed Jaws (played by seven-foot-two-inch-tall actor Richard Kiel) as one of the most memorable and indestructible Bond villains. Jaws is so tenacious, in fact, that Moore looks genuinely frightened, and that adds to the abundant fun. This time Bond teams up with yet another lovely Russian agent (Barbara Bach) to track a pair of nuclear submarines that the nefarious Stromberg (Curt Jürgens) plans to use in his plot to start World War III. The Spy Who Loved Me is a galaxy away from the suave Sean Connery exploits of the 1960s, but the film works perfectly as grandiose entertainment. From cavernous undersea lairs to the vast horizons of Egypt, this Bond thriller keeps its tongue firmly in cheek with a plot tailor-made for daredevil escapism. --Jeff Shannon

License to Kill: Timothy Dalton's second and last shot at playing James Bond isn't nearly as much fun as his debut, two years earlier, in the 1987 The Living Daylights. This time Bond gets mad after a close friend (David Hedison) from the intelligence sector is assassinated on his wedding day, and 007 goes undercover to link the murder to an international drug cartel. Robert Davi makes an interesting adversary, but as with most of the Bond films in the '70s, '80s, and '90s--and especially since the end of the cold war--one has to wonder why we should still care about these lesser villains and their unimaginative crimes. Still, Dalton did manage in his short time with the character to make 007 his own, which neither Roger Moore did nor Pierce Brosnan did. --Tom Keogh

Goldeneye: The 18th James Bond adventure was a runaway box-office success when released in 1995, thanks to the arrival of Pierce Brosnan as the fifth actor (following the departure of Timothy Dalton) to play the suave, danger-loving Agent 007. This James Bond is a bit more vulnerable and psychologically complex--and just a shade more politically correct--but he's still a formally attired playboy at heart, with a lovely Russian beauty (Izabella Scorupco) as his sexy ally against a cadre of renegade Russians bent on--what else?--global domination. All in all, this action-packed Bond adventure provided a much-needed boost the long-running movie series, revitalizing the 007 franchise for the turn of the millennium. -- Jeff Shannon

Live and Let Die: Roger Moore was introduced as James Bond in this 1973 action movie featuring secret agent 007. This film marks a deviation from the more character-driven stories of the Connery years, a deliberate shift to plastic action (multiple chases, bravura stunts) that made the franchise more of a comic book or machine. If that's not depressing enough, there's even a good British director on board, Guy Hamilton (Force 10 from Navarone). The story finds Bond taking on an international drug dealer (Yaphet Kotto), and while that may be superficially relevant, it isn't exactly the same as fighting supervillains on the order of Goldfinger. --Tom Keogh

For Your Eyes Only: After a ship sunk off the coast of Albania, the world's superpowers begin a feverish search for its valuable lost cargo: the powerful ATAC system, which will give its bearer unlimited control over Polaris nuclear submarines. As Bond joins the search, he suspects the suave Kristatos (Julian Glover) of seizing the device. The competition between nations grows more deadly by the moment, but Bond finds an ally in the beautiful Melina Havelock (Caroline Bouquet), who blames Kristatos for the death of her parents. The non-stop action includes automobile chases, thrilling underwater battles, and even a breathtaking tour over razor-sharp coral reefs. But all of this is merely a prelude to 007's cliffhanging assault of a magnificent mountaintop fortress. -- Robert Lynch

From Russia with Love: Directed with consummate skill by Terence Young, the second James Bond spy thriller is considered by many fans to be the best of them all. Certainly Sean Connery was never better as the dashing Agent 007, whose latest mission takes him to Istanbul to retrieve a top-secret Russian decoding machine. His efforts are thwarted when he gets romantically distracted by a sexy Russian double agent (Daniela Bianchi), and is tracked by a lovely assassin (Lotte Lenya) with switchblade shoes, and by a crazed killer (Robert Shaw), who clashes with Bond during the film's dazzling climax aboard the Orient Express. From Russia with Love is classic James Bond, before the gadgets, pyrotechnics, and Roger Moore steered the movies away from the more realistic tone of the books by Ian Fleming. --Jeff Shannon

Dr. No: Released in 1962, this first James Bond movie remains one of the best, and serves as an entertaining reminder that the Bond series began (in keeping with Ian Fleming's novels) with a surprising lack of gadgetry and big-budget fireworks. In his first adventure James Bond is called to Jamaica where a colleague and secretary have been mysteriously killed. With an American CIA agent (Jack Lord, pre-Hawaii Five-O), they discover that the nefarious Dr. No (Joseph Wiseman) is scheming to blackmail the U.S. government with a device capable of deflecting and destroying U.S. rockets launched from Cape Canaveral. Of course, Bond takes time off from his exploits to enjoy the company of a few gorgeous women, including the bikini-clad Ursula Andress. This is Bond at his purest, kicking off a series of movies that shows no sign of slowing down. --Jeff Shannon

You Only Live Twice: The film boasts the best of the Bond title songs (this one sung on a dreamy track by Nancy Sinatra), but the movie itself is one of the weaker ones of the Sean Connery phase of the 007 franchise. The story concerns an effort by the evil organization SPECTRE to start a world war, but the not-so-super villain behind the plot is the awfully civilized Donald Pleasence. The thin script is by Roald Dahl (shouldn't we have expected a better Bond nemesis from the creator of mad genius Willy Wonka?), and direction is by British veteran Lewis Gilbert (Alfie). But the movie can't hold a candle to Dr. No, From Russia with Love, or Goldfinger. --Tom Keogh

Octopussy: Roger Moore was nearing the end of his reign as James Bond when he made Octopussy, and he looks a little worn out. But the movie itself infuses some new blood into the old franchise, with a frisky pace and a pair of sturdy villains. Maud Adams--who'd also been in the Bond outing The Man with the Golden Gun--plays the improbably named Octopussy, while old smoothie Louis Jourdan is her crafty partner in crime. Two Bond films were actually released in 1983 within a few months of each other, as Octopussy was followed by Sean Connery's comeback in Never Say Never Again. The success of both pictures proved that there was still plenty of mileage left in the old license to kill, though Moore had one more workout--A View to a Kill--before hanging it up. And that title? The franchise had already used up the titles to Ian Fleming's novels, so Octopussy was taken from a lesser-known Fleming short story. -- Robert Horton

Tomorrow Never Dies: Pierce Brosnan returns for his second stint as James Bond (after GoldenEye), and he's doing it in high style with an invigorating cast of costars. It's only appropriate that a Bond film from 1997 would find Agent 007 pitted against a media mogul (Jonathan Pryce) who's going to start a global war (beginning with stolen nuclear missiles aimed at China) to create attention-grabbing headlines for his latest multimedia news channel. It's the information age run amok, and Bond must team up with a lovely and lethal agent from the Chinese External Security Force (played by Honk Kong action star Michelle Yeoh) to foil the madman's plot of global domination. Luckily for Bond, the villain's wife (Teri Hatcher) is one of his former lovers and 007 finds ample opportunity to exploit the connection. Armed with the usual array of gadgets (including a remote-controlled BMW), Brosnan settles into his role with acceptable flair, and the dynamic Yeoh provides a perfect balance to the sexism that once threatened to turn Bond into a politically incorrect anachronism. He's still Bond, to be sure, but he's saving the world with a bit more sophisticated finesse. --Jeff Shannon

Moonraker: This was the first James Bond adventure produced after the success of Star Wars, so it jumped on the sci-fi bandwagon by combining the suave appeal of Agent 007 (once again played by Roger Moore) with enough high-tech hardware and special effects to make Luke Skywalker want to join Her Majesty's Secret Service. This time Bond is up against a criminal industrialist named Drax (Michel Lonsdale) who wants to control the world from his orbiting space station. Bond thwarts this maniacal Neo-Hitler's scheme with the help of a beautiful, sleek-figured scientist (played by Lois Chiles with all the vitality of a department-store mannequin). Despite Moore's passive performance (which Pauline Kael described as "like an office manager who is turning into dead wood but hanging on to collect his pension"), Moonraker had no problem attracting an appreciative audience, and there are even a few renegade Bond-philes who consider it one of their favorites. --Sean Axmaker

Customer Reviews:

Everything It Could Be.......2007-09-12

If you want the first 20 Bond films in premium condition, this is the way to go.

Outstanding Quality ! The Highest Quilty Versions Of The Films I Have Ever Seen !.......2007-08-27

I received this collection from my girlfriend for my birthday and I couldn't be happier with this set. Unfortunately I was not old enough to see the first few Bond films in the theater, but I have seen them MANY times on broadcast tv, VHS and DVD (earlier single releases) and NONE of them compare with the visual and audio quality of this collection.

I wish I could give it 6 stars !

James Bond - 007 Ultimate Edition Set Bundle.......2007-08-24

I am a BIG James Bond fan since I was young I"ve seen every JB movie since 1963.
Any I started to collect the James Bond movies 1st in VHS format then in DVD (singles) but no one store had all the collection together, the store that almost had the whole collection was costco and I went back and forth lookin.
Then I was looking through Amazon and there they were and I jumped on this.

Johnnie Waller

PS, and the price was cool too!

Don't think - Just get.......2007-08-01

If you've been wanting the entire 007 set of DVD like I have, don't even think about buying this, just get it! This set is amazing. All the movies look incredible on my HDTV. I've never seen Dr. No or From Russia With Love look so good. Not to mention they're also in DTS, which makes me very said I don't have a DTS receiver.

Each film has the movie on one disc, then all the bonus features on another disc. The only thing thats a little annoying about this set is the movies aren't in chronological order. I rearranged the films in the four cases to be in chronological order though.

Wonderful Gift!.......2007-07-16

I bought this for my husband for Father's Day. I only gave him the first 2 sets and I'm holding onto the other ones for his birthday. He LOVED them! You can't beat the price for the set of 4. He was actually very happy that the movies were not in order too. This is a great gift for anyone who loves James Bond!

James Bond Ultimate Edition - Vol. 3 (GoldenEye / Live and Let Die / For Your Eyes Only / From Russia With Love / On Her Majesty's Secret Service)

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BEST of the Remastered Bond Collections, with 3 CLASSICS!
Thank goodness for these sets
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Goldeneye: The 18th James Bond adventure was a runaway box-office success when released in 1995, thanks to the arrival of Pierce Brosnan as the fifth actor (following the departure of Timothy Dalton) to play the suave, danger-loving Agent 007. This James Bond is a bit more vulnerable and psychologically complex--and just a shade more politically correct--but he's still a formally attired playboy at heart, with a lovely Russian beauty (Izabella Scorupco) as his sexy ally against a cadre of renegade Russians bent on--what else?--global domination. There's also a seductive villainous with the suggestive name of Xenia Onatopp (Famke Janssen), and the great actress Judi Dench makes her first appearance as Bond's superior, M, who wisecracks about 007's "dinosaur" status as a globetrotting sexist. All in all, this action-packed Bond adventure provided a much-needed boost the long-running movie series, revitalizing the 007 franchise for the turn of the millennium. --Jeff Shannon

Live and Let Die: Roger Moore was introduced as James Bond in this 1973 action movie featuring secret agent 007. More self-consciously suave and formal than predecessor Sean Connery, he immediately reestablished Bond as an uncomplicated and wooden fellow for the feel-good '70s. This film also marks a deviation from the more character-driven stories of the Connery years, a deliberate shift to plastic action (multiple chases, bravura stunts) that made the franchise more of a comic book or machine. If that's not depressing enough, there's even a good British director on board, Guy Hamilton (Force 10 from Navarone). The story finds Bond taking on an international drug dealer (Yaphet Kotto), and while that may be superficially relevant, it isn't exactly the same as fighting supervillains on the order of Goldfinger. --Tom Keogh

On Her Majesty's Secret Service: Australian model George Lazenby took up the mantle of the world's most suave secret agent when Sean Connery retired as James Bond (although Connery returned in Diamonds Are Forever before leaving the role to Roger Moore); Lazenby's subsequent career fizzled, yet this one-hit wonder is responsible for one of the best Bond films of all time. In On Her Majesty's Secret Service, 007 leaves the Service to privately pursue his SPECTRE nemesis Blofeld (played this time by Telly Savalas), whose latest master plan involves a threat to the world's crops by agricultural sterilization. Bond teams up with suave international crime lord Draco (Gabriele Ferzetti) and falls in love with--and marries--his elegant daughter, Tracy (Diana Rigg). Bond goes monogamous? Not at first; after all he has Blofeld's harem to seduce. Lazenby hasn't the intensity of Connery but he has fun with his quips and even lampoons the Bond image in a playful pre-credits sequence, and Rigg, fresh from playing sexy Emma Peel in The Avengers, matches 007 in every way. Former editor Peter Hunt makes a strong directorial debut, deftly handling the elaborate action sequences with a kinetic finesse. Though not a hit on its original release, On Her Majesty's Secret Service has become a fan favorite and the closest the series has come to capturing the spirit of Ian Fleming's books. --Sean Axmaker

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*From Russia With Love Disc #1: -Movie with DTS 5.1 Surround and original mono/stereo -Language selections -Audio commentary by director Terence Young and cast and crew

Disc #2: -DECLASSIFIED: MI6 VAULT Ian Fleming: The CBC Interview -Ian Fleming & Raymond Chandler -Ian Fleming on Desert Island Discs -Animated Storyboard Sequence -007 MISSION CONTROL Interactive Guide Into the World of From Russia With Love -THE COMPLETE SPECIAL FEATURES LIBRARY: MISSION DOSSIER -Inside From Russia With Love -Harry Saltzman: Showman -MINISTRY OF PROPAGANDA Original Trailers, TV Spots, Photo Gallery & Radio Communications

*For Your Eyes Only Disc #1: -Movie with DTS 5.1 Surround and original mono/stereo -Newly Recorded Audio Commentary Featuring Sir Roger Moore -Language selections -Audio Commentary Featuring John Glen and Actors -Audio Commentary Featuring Michael G Wilson and Crew

Disc #2 -Newly Recorded Audio Commentary Featuring Sir Roger Moore -DECLASSIFIED: MI6 VAULT Deleted Scenes & Expanded Angles -Bond in Greece Bond in Cortina -Neptune's Journey -007 MISSION CONTROL Interactive Guide Into the World of For Your Eyes Only -THE COMPLETE SPECIAL FEATURES LIBRARY: MISSION DOSSIER -Inside For Your Eyes Only -Animated Storyboard Sequences -Sheena Easton 'For Your Eyes Only' Music Video -MINISTRY OF PROPAGANDA Original Trailers, TV Spots, Photo Gallery & Radio Communications

*On Her Majesty's Secret Service Disc #1: -Movie with DTS 5.1 Surround and original mono/stereo -Language selections -Audio Commentary Featuring Director Peter Hunt and Members of the Cast and Crew

Disc #2: -DECLASSIFIED: MI6 VAULT Casting On Her Majesty's Secret Service -Press Day in Portugal -George Lazenby: In His Own Words -Shot on Ice - Original 1969 Ford Promo -Film Swiss Movement - Original 1969 Featurette 007 -007 MISSION CONTROL Interactive Guide Into the World of On Her Majesty's Secret Service -THE COMPLETE SPECIAL FEATURES LIBRARY: MISSION DOSSIER -Inside On Her Majesty's Secret Service -Inside Q's Lab -Above It All - Original 1969 Featurette

*Live And Let Die Disc #1: -Movie with DTS 5.1 Surround and original mono/stereo -Newly Recorded Audio Commentary Featuring Sir Roger Moore -Language selections -Audio commentary by director Guy Hamilton and Tom Mankiewicz and cast and crew

Disc #2: -DECLASSIFIED: MI6 VAULT Bond 1973: The Lost Documentary -Roger Moore as James Bond, Circa 1964 -Live and Let Die Conceptual Art -007 MISSION CONTROL Interactive Guide Into the World of Live and Let Die -THE COMPLETE SPECIAL FEATURES LIBRARY: MISSION DOSSIER -Inside Live and Let Die -On Set With Roger Moore

*GoldenEye Disc #1: -Movie with DTS 5.1 Surround and original stereo -Language selections -Audio Commentary Featuring Martin Campbell and Michael G. Wilson

Disc #2: -DECLASSIFIED: MI6 VAULT Deleted Scenes With Introductions by -Director Martin Campbell -Directing Bond: The Martin Chronicles -Building a Better Bond: Pre-Production Featurette -The Return of Bond - The Start of Production Press Event -Driven to Bond: Remy Julienne -Anatomy of a Stunt: Tank Versus Perrier -Making it in Small Pictures: Derek Meddings -On Location With Peter Lamont -GoldenEye: The Secret Files -Pre-Title Storyboard Sequence With Director Martin Campbell -007 MISSION CONTROL Interactive Guide Into the World of GoldenEye -THE COMPLETE SPECIAL FEATURES LIBRARY: MISSION DOSSIER -The World of 007 - Original 1995 Television Special Hosted by Elizabeth Hurley -The GoldenEye Video Journal Promotional Featurette -Tina Turner 'GoldenEye' Music Video -MINISTRY OF PROPAGANDA Original Trailers, TV Spots, Photo Gallery & Radio Communications

Customer Reviews:

Great Gift!.......2007-08-31

I got this for my husband for his birthday-he is a big James Bond fan. He really enjoyed it. Shipping was very quick.

Picked up whole collection in one pack - great deal.......2007-06-14

Great deal for the hard-code Bond fan.

BEST of the Remastered Bond Collections, with 3 CLASSICS!.......2007-06-14

While all of the frame-by-frame restored 007 collections are fabulous, "James Bond Ultimate Edition - Vol. 3" is truly the pinnacle, with 3 of the greatest Bond adventures, ever!

"GoldenEye" (1995), Pierce Brosnan's long-delayed debut as Bond, offers a revamped 007 more in tune with a post-Cold War world. With the fabulous Judi Dench as the new 'M', and a new generation of leading ladies (Izabella Scorupco) and villains (Famke Janssen and Sean Bean are standouts), youthful Brosnan, while not as decisive as Sean Connery, shows the characteristic swagger! While the hijacked nuclear satellite plot is derivative, it was great to see 007 back, after 6 years. (3 1/2 stars out of 5)

"Live and Let Die" (1973), Roger Moore's debut as 007, clearly redefined the character as stylishly 'cool' rather than dangerous. Campy, with a silly Voodoo subplot, and a less-than-stellar villain (Yaphet Kotto), the film does offer beautiful young Jane Seymour as the heroine, ridiculous Clifton James as a redneck sheriff, and a plot, somewhere, involving drug shipments to America. Listen to Paul McCartney's title song, then just go with the flow, and you may enjoy Moore, and the '70s 'feel'! (3 stars out of 5)

"For Your Eyes Only" (1981), follow-up to the disastrous "Moonraker", returned 007 Roger Moore to the grittier, more physical films of Sean Connery. A British encryption device is missing, and Bond must deal with a vengeance-minded Greek girl (Carole Bouquet), rival gangs (headed by Topol and Julian Glover), and an amorous ice skater (Lynn-Holly Johnson). Eschewing hi-tech devices, Moore's aging Bond climbs a mountain, gets dragged through a coral reef...and is terrific! (4 1/2 stars out of 5)

"From Russia With Love" (1963), Sean Connery's second 007 outing, is considered by many the finest Bond film. If "Dr. No" provided the Bond 'framework', "FRWL" provided the 'style'; set in London, Istanbul, and aboard the Orient Express, with fabulous villains (Robert Shaw and Lotte Lenya), a sexy heroine (Daniela Bianchi), and, in his final role, wonderful Pedro Armendáriz as a doomed ally, everything is top-notch! A CLASSIC! (5 stars out of 5)

"On Her Majesty's Secret Service" (1969), the most controversial Bond film, with the most daring plot (Bond marries!), and inept 007 (George Lazenby, replacing Sean Connery). In Lazenby's defense, this WAS his first acting job, and the film had been intended as a powerful finale for Connery; however, Japan's lucrative package deal pushed "You Only Live Twice" ahead, throwing off the series' continuity, and taking Connery out of the picture! Nonetheless, "OHMSS" is a remarkable film, with Diana Rigg, a perfect 'Bond Girl', and Telly Savalas, a truly villainous Blofeld. With it's unique ending, and very human 007, it would have been a classic, whoever played 007...but fans will always wish Connery had made the film (and his absence killed the box office). (5 stars out of 5)

Of all the Bond collections, THIS is the most ESSENTIAL!

Thank goodness for these sets.......2007-05-16

These four JB sets are the perfect way to get your Bond fix in enormous doses. The special features are great and the quality of the picture is unbeatable. My only small quibble is that the setup of the DVD menus is sort of obnoxious, but that seems to be the way of DVDs these days. If you are a Bond fan, or if you have a Bond fan in your home and want to give him an amazing gift (as I did), these aren't to be missed.

Great Package!.......2007-05-12

What a treat to have everything in one group. My husband had some of the movies on VHS, but some of them were next to impossible to find by themselves--now he has them in a lasting format.

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Release Date: 2007-02-06

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The 18th James Bond adventure was a runaway box-office success when released in 1995, thanks to the arrival of Pierce Brosnan as the fifth actor (following the departure of Timothy Dalton) to play the suave, danger-loving Agent 007. This James Bond is a bit more vulnerable and psychologically complex--and just a shade more politically correct--but he's still a formally attired playboy at heart, with a lovely Russian beauty (Izabella Scorupco) as his sexy ally against a cadre of renegade Russians bent on--what else?--global domination. There's also a seductive villainous with the suggestive name of Xenia Onatopp (Famke Janssen), and the great actress Judi Dench makes her first appearance as Bond's superior, M, who wisecracks about 007's "dinosaur" status as a globetrotting sexist. All in all, this action-packed Bond adventure provided a much-needed boost the long-running movie series, revitalizing the 007 franchise for the turn of the millennium. --Jeff Shannon

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Pierce Brosnan ignites the screen in his first adventure as the unstoppable James Bond. When a powerful satellite system falls into the hands of a former ally-turned-enemy, only 007 can save the world from an awesome space weapon that -- in one short puls

Customer Reviews:

GoldenEye.......2007-08-28

This movie is worth the price of admission just for the tank chase alone. Not your usual Bond movie as the females aren't evil supermodels and true a woman who crushes her prey to death with her thighs is a little campy but other than that this is one of the better takes on Ian Flemmings 007 character.

Still entertaining if you feel like some fast-moving nuttiness .......2007-08-28

Well, I thought I'd just catch up on this Bond - may I call it a golden oldie? (sorry!) seeing I missed it first time around. What's the verdict in 2007? Let's see -

Continuous action rating - Very high.

Acting - Pretty good considering the nutty situations.

Unusual effects rating - excellent. Loved the big old Russian train (why can't we have some of those!) the famous tank chase, etc. (Of course you have to forget that a car could outrun a tank on any open street.)

Credibility of main theme - so-so. An electromagnetic pulse could be trouble, but it would be silent and invisible, not the good 'ol sizzling blue force-fields like St Elmo's fire - the movie cliché.

Credibility of combat sequences - don't ask. But in those days we took it for granted that hundreds of bad guys shooting at a visible target could never hit their man once, while the good guy could blast them by the dozen. And someone could take innumerable knockout blows and recover to send the opponent flying. 'Twas always thus.

Credibility of explosions, crashes, etc - low. I get tired of seeing large all-metal structures suddenly combust for no particular reason. And people surviving the most disastrous plane crashes etc. with a few scratches and a dazed moment. But the explosions sure looked good.

General absurdity rating - stratospheric.

But overall entertainment value - not bad! Nobody takes those things seriously anyway. And it was kinda nice to remember those innocent days when a visit to Guantanamo was offered as a welcome suggestion, and we could enjoy a few non-PC double entendres. How everything has changed.

Blah!! Blah!! Blah!!.......2007-07-10

I just saw "Golden Eye" after ten years on cable last night. Are you kidding!! It was terrible. The whole movie was so badly acted and phony one could hardly sit through it. The only welcoming figure was Judi Dench as M. Even Pierce Brosnan was pathethic as Bond. Thank God for "Casino Royale" and Daniel Craig as Bond. What skunk stink!! Avoid " Golden Eye!"

Great, GREAT, Film.......2007-06-24

007, Goldeneye is magic in so many ways. First of all, the name is one of the best and most memorable in the series, making it entirely marketable in diverse ways. Second, the acting is stellar, incorporating many recognizable stars into one amazing Bond film. Thirdly, the electronic/lush romantic score by Eric Serra is wonderful. Fourth... Let's just say this is a great film.
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My only reservation in reccomending this film are a couple scenes that seem to blur the line between sensuality and violence, (the villianess is a murderer with the style of a black widow.)

I can only give it a 3 of 5.......2007-06-14

I thought it was a very silly plot, and really, really disliked the Russian hacker.

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I can only give it a 3 of 5.......2007-06-14

I thought it was a very silly plot, and really, really disliked the Russian hacker.

The James Bond Collection, Vol. 1 (Special Edition)

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The James Bond Collection, Vol. 1 collects the same feature-packed DVDs that appeared in previous Bond boxes, but in a new combination of titles, one with a decidedly golden gleam. In 1962 Sean Connery defined the cinematic James Bond as a tough, charming, and thoroughly professional cold war spy with a license to kill in the lean, hard-edged Dr. No. With Ursula Andress (as the original Bond girl Honeychile Ryder, who makes her entrance in a bikini), Bond battles a renegade supervillain with little more than his wits, his cunning, and his Walther PPK. In Goldfinger (1964) Connery's steely presence helped forge the formula of tongue-in-cheek wit, wondrous secret agent toys created by Q, and megalomaniac supervillains bent on world destruction.

Roger Moore brought a light tone and a suave assurance to the series, and in The Man with the Golden Gun (1974), he battles million-dollar assassin Christopher Lee, one of Bond's most magnetic adversaries. The Spy Who Loved Me (1977), perhaps Moore's finest hour, is a return to the extravagant set pieces and cold war thrills of Connery's pictures and introduces Richard Kiel's steel-dentured Jaws to the series. Timothy Dalton made his second and final appearance as Bond in Licence to Kill (1989), the toughest of the Bond films since Connery's early efforts. Though not a fan favorite, it's a sleek, solid adventure with an edge missing from the Moore pictures.

Pierce Brosnan is the latest to take on the 007 mantle, combining the best of Connery's cool and Moore's humor. GoldenEye (1995) is a grand globetrotting adventure with lovely Bond girls and a tough new M (Judy Dench). Tomorrow Never Dies (1997) doesn't recapture that magic mix of action, gadgetry, and romance, but does feature the first Bond girl to match 007 blow for blow: Hong Kong action superstar Michelle Yeoh. The DVD editions of the films each feature audio commentary tracks by the director and key members of the crew, making-of documentaries, and a host of stills, TV spots, and trailers. --Sean Axmaker

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oh sean,sean,where have you been?.......2006-12-26

i don't know if anybody mentioned this(ihaven't read all the reviews)but why is it these movies aren't released in box sets according to the indiviual actors who played the secret agent?you know,a sean connery set,a roger moore set,etc.for years i've been yelling for a connery set(whom i consider the best,though they're all good)but to no avail.as many times as they've released these,you'd think they would've done so.therefore i was dissapointed when these collections came out.please give us a chance to pick the bonds we like,without throwing them all together.

Good...but not THAT good.......2006-11-29

Ok, this is the best set in this collection in my opinion. The movies are some of my favorites in the series. You have 2 great Sean Connery movies in Dr. No and Goldfinger; probably the best Roger Moore movie in The Spy Who Loved Me, and a great Brosnan film in Goldeneye (How can you not like Sean Bean as a bad guy) The problem I have with this collection is the quality and the price. While watching these movies I noticed, especially on the older movies, the poor picture quality. I felt like I was watching a movie on 1960's film. I also had disk problems with this set. My copy of Goldfinger would skip as the menus came up. The only other physical problem with this set is that on my copy (and most copies) of Tomorrow Never Dies there was a little camera icon at the top for like half of the movie. Now, you can usually get rid of it by pushing clear, but it is still very annoying. My biggest problem with this set is the price. It costs about $100 for Volume 1 and the other 2 sets can be upwards of $160. That means to have all the bond movies in this set could cost you around $400. I would recommend the new Ultimate Edition (UE) James Bond collection to anyone looking at this set. The picture and disk quality of the (UE) are SOOOO much better, and you can buy all 4 sets for a little over $200.00 total. So to sum up this is a good set, but the UEs are a MUCH better value and the quality is considerable better. My advice spend your money on the Ultimate Editions.

James Bond Collection, Vol. 1.......2005-09-16

Although I'm not sure who's at fault, I ordered all three volumes of the James Bond Collections, from three different sellers. This seller failed to include the box for the set, which angered me. I was pretty sure that it did not say in his description that the box wasn't included! He is purchasing the movies individually and selling them as a box set (to command more money)and to me that is very misleading! I wanted to have all three box sets and ended up with 7 seperate Bond movies without the box! I won't ever buy from this seller again!

Great...more Bond..........2005-08-24

Great, they brought out more James Bond. As if the original Dr. No theme wasn't annoying enough before, now it sounds twice as good (or bad if you don't like the music). And if you dont want to spend more than $100.00 each set, watch Spike TV during Thanksgiving - they repeat all the James Bond movies so much it really gets on your nerves. Good stories, the movies weren't so good...

Must Have Bond, James Bond.......2005-08-12

This collection includes various Bond movies from four of the actors that have played James Bond in the "official" Bond movies, which excludes "Never Say Never Again." My only complaint about the three collections is that the movies are not in order. I have all three sets because I like Bond rather than wanting all the Bond movies by one of the three actors. However, you have to take them as you can get them sometimes.

Each of the movies in this collection is a "special edition," which is a fancy name for DVDs that include extras that range in value from high to low. I have been very fascinated with some of the commentaries (those by Terence Young were very fascinating) and some of the features just seemed like filler. However, what I found interesting other may not, and vice versa. Rather than listing all the extras, a list of which is available, I will discuss the movies briefly.

"Dr. No" launched the Bond franchise. Sean Connery set the tone for Bond, suave, debonair, and terminally cool. He drove nice cars and had a penchant for dry one-liners. Ursula Andress set the tone for future Bond women, and Dr. No was coolly ruthless. Ken Adam's sets were artistic and artfully filmed by Terence Young, who also provided the stylistic role model for Connery's Bond. In the extras you learn that Connery was mentored by Young and acquired expensive tastes and hobbies in the process.

Many people consider the second movie in this collection, 1964's "Goldfinger," to be the best Bond film ever. Bond's villains continued to be ruthless and megalomaniacs, and Connery has a close encounter with a laser. Shirley Bassey belts out the title song and sets the standard for future Bond music. James Bond also quips that drinking Dom Perignon above 38 degrees Fahrenheit is "...as bad as listening to the Beatles without earmuffs." Fortunately, Paul McCartney did not take it personally as he recorded the title track to the 1973 Bond movie "Live and Let Die." Bond also got ever more gadgets from Q, played by Desmond Llewelyn, who went on to appear in more Bond movies than any other major actor.

The third movie in the collection is Roger Moore's second outing as Bond. "The Man with the Golden Gun" from 1974 is a mixed bag. Christopher Lee as Scaramanga and Herve Villechaize are two of the most bizarre and ruthless Bond villains ever. There are fewer gadgets than in some of the surrounding Bond movies, but Moore's performance is a bit wooden and Clifton James was a bit over-the-top as comic relief. The title song by singer Lulu is pretty good, but pales in comparison to many of the other title songs in the series.

The fourth movie in this collection attempted to put Bond back on track. The 1977 movie "The Spy Who Loved Me" had a very serious undertone. The gadgets are back, but effective. We meet Jaws (Richard Kiel) and Karl Stromberg (Curt Jürgens). We also meet incredible Bond women Caroline Munro and Barbara Bach. The stunts are awesome, the plot is incredible, the locations fantastic and the title song by Carly Simon pushed Bond music back into relevancy. This movie was one of Roger Moore's best as James Bond.

Timothy Dalton's second film, 1989's "License to Kill," is the weaker of the two Dalton Bond films. However, the supporting cast is excellent, including Carey Lowell of "Law and Order" fame, Robert Davi, Talisa Soto, and David Hedison as Felix Leiter in his last appearance in a Bond film. The location shots are very good, and the stunts are among the best of any Bond film. They actually had those semi-tractor trailers up on two wheels, according to the extras. The bad guy may have been a mere drug czar, but everyone was suitably evil. Gladys Knight takes the honors for the title song and Patti LaBelle sings the pop hit "If You Asked Me To" to close the movie.

The last two movies in this collection are Pierce Brosnan's first and second Bond movies. In 1995's "Goldeneye," Bond is more dynamic and a more traditional spy. This movie raised the location stakes by filming for the first time in Russia, along with a number of other exotic locations. The gadgets are better, and the women are nearly more than Bond can handle, especially Xenia Onatopp. This movie contains more plot twists than a typical Bond movie, so be prepared to think a little as things go boom. Tina Turner does the title song reasonably well, but her performance has powerful competition in many of the other recent Bond films.

The final film in this collection is 1997's "Tomorrow Never Dies." The supporting cast this time is phenomenal, with the great actor Jonathan Pryce as Elliot Carver, Teri Hatcher as his wife Paris Carver, and Michelle Yeoh as Chinese agent Wei Lin, among numerous others. Jonathan Pryce steals nearly every scene he is in, reminiscent of some other great Bond villains. The locations are ever more incredible, digital effects abound, and the stunts are even more thrilling. That motorcycle jump was really performed! Cheryl Crow does a great job on the title song, and the excellent video is included.

Because of all the extras these DVDs require hours to watch. While the value of the extras varies, watching them gives a fan much more information about the difficulties of making each movie, and how many of the stunts were performed. I consider these movies to be among the gems of my DVD collection. I recommend this set very highly as long as you plan on collecting all the Bond films.

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A New Bond with a New Style.......2007-03-13

James Bond changed for a fifth time with this, the 17th official Bond film, emulating the venerable Dr. Who once again. Fans welcomed the change from Timothy Dalton to Pierce Brosnan, and they vaulted this movie to the highest grossing Bond movie at that time. Brosnan made Bond more suave and sophisticated than Dalton's Bond, with a dash more humor, though less humor than Roger Moore's Bond. It helped that this movie featured non-stop action and a foe with malice toward England in his heart, and the ability to execute a nefarious plot.

In the opening scenes of this movie we see a breath-taking stunt, as Bond, well his double actually, leaps off the side of a dam on a bungee cord. Bond is penetrating a secret Soviet chemical weapons facility. We learn that Bond is on this mission with Alec Trevelyan, Agent 006 (Sean Bean). Unfortunately it appears that Alec does not survive an encounter with General Arkady Ourumov (Gottfried John). After a daring escape involving multiple close calls, the movie forwards into the present to the Mediterranean.

Bond encounters Xenia Onatopp (Famke Janssen), and she is behaving in a most unusual fashion. Of course, Bond may have been attracted to her because of her incredible beauty, but regardless of the reason, she has gained Bond's interest. We soon observe that Xenia is a most cruel person, and she is ruthless in stealing a super secret helicopter that is resistance to electromagnetic pulses, such as a nuclear weapon might cause.

We now move to Severnaya, Russia, where the helicopter has been spotted by satellite. We have the benefit of going into Severnaya as General Ourumov and sadistic sidekick Onatopp enter the facility and demand an inspection of the Goldeneye system. It seems that during the cold war the Soviet Union had developed an electromagnetic pulse (EMP) weapon, Goldeneye, which was capable of wreaking all sorts of havoc on any electronic equipment in the weapon's aim. Unfortunately for the personnel of Severnaya, once General Ourumov obtains the control module he has Xenia eliminate the staff of Severnaya. However, one member of the staff, Natalya Simonova (Izabella Scorupco), has survived Xenia and the activation of the first of two Goldeneye satellites.

M (Judi Dench) sends Bond to Russia to find out what is going on. Bond soon meets with former foe Valentin Zukovsky (Robbie Coltrane), who gives him some clues that might lead Bond to the information he seeks. As a side note, Minnie Driver has a brief role as Irina, Zukovsky's tone deaf mistress.

While Bond has been tracking down Ourumov, Natalya has been tracking former Severnaya associate Boris Grishenko (Alan Cumming). After a surprised Bond encounters Alec, he awakes to the yells of Natalya, and quickly learns that they are in the cockpit of super secret helicopter, and missiles have been programmed to fire and destroy the helicopter. After a typically close call, Bond and Natalya soon end up in the hands of Ourumov and Alec once again. The ever-resourceful Bond escapes, of course, in one of the best chase scenes of all time.

The action speeds onward to a hidden satellite dish, which looks remarkably like the observatory at Arecibo, Puerto Rico. Okay, I am kidding, it really is Arecibo, except when it is a model. The action intensifies toward the exciting conclusion that takes place under, around and on the huge radio telescope facility.

This Bond movie is as good as you might think it is. We hungered for a new Bond film in the six years between the release of "License to Kill" in 1989, and the release of this film in 1995. The world had changed a lot in that time. The Soviet Union was gone, and the nature of Bond villains changed as well. As a point of trivia, this Bond marked the first time a Bond movie actually filmed in the former Soviet Union.

You can tell the style of this movie a little by the nomination for Saturn Awards this movie received for Best Action/Adventure Film and Best Actor by the Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films (USA). The movie was nominated for a couple of other awards, and won a BMI award for music and a Golden Screen award (Germany).

Pierce Brosnan occasionally looks slightly uncomfortable as Bond, but he quickly makes Bond his own. By the end of the movie I was comfortable that Brosnan made a suitable James Bond, and was already looking forward to the next Bond film. I recommend this movie highly to fans of the James Bond series and for fans of action-adventure movies. This movie is a winner and a keeper.

Enjoy!

Goldeneye.......2007-03-10

I think, whenever I watch Pierce Brosnan in action as James Bond, that the casting is almost too perfect. A risk-free phone call for all concerned if ever there was one: "Pierce...we're ready for you. You're free now, right?--Or do we call again in another ten years?".

Goldeneye delivers Bond as it was known and loved for so many years. How do you complain about something that is designed to work so well? The biggest challenge is selling Dame Judi as M, and she gets mere minutes of screen time, delivering the most contrived speech of the film.

What exactly am I supposed to say here about the plot of your standard James Bond film, as displayed in Goldeneye? Do you really need the rundown? Should I just give the 4 star review and leave? Okay, okay. There's this Russian dude, General Ourumov, who gets a bit above himself by stealing things that don't belong to him but which help him threaten parts of the world, on behalf of some sinister criminal mastermind code-named Janus. First he steals a Tiger helicopter, which is, like all tigers, immune to the effects of an Electromagnetic Pulse. Then he steals the Goldeneye weapon, which can create a massive and uber-destructive Electromagnetic Pulse. In the process, he kills a lot of Russian comrades, which does make the Russian Defence Minister a bit suspicious about a slight internal problem, but what he really needs to clear up this mess--mostly after he's been murdered, unfortunately--is a buttinksy British superspy teamed with the only surviving witness to Ourumov's treachery, following the trail to Janus, via a rather circuitous route.

Along the way, Bond gets help from some CIA guy who is not Felix Leiter, gets mauled a few times by the lovely Xena Onatopp, who has definitely blurred the line between unsafe sex and the best way to die with a smile on your face. She's Ourumov's chief muscle--there's just something so wrong about putting it quite that way--and other peoples' pain is her ecstasy. A gorgeous Famke Janssen, as Onatopp, is another example of risk-free casting--those cowards (thank goodness!). And Onatopp is just one method that Ourumov and the mysterious Janus employ to kill Bond; most of the others don't involve spine-crushing sex. They aim a whole train at him, some missiles, many many machine-guns, another missile, and Bond must think fast to side-step them all, especially a Russian gangster with a grudge, splendidly played by Robbie Coltrane--and believe me, side-stepping Robbie Coltrane is no easy task.

Minnie Driver has a cameo as fingernails being scraped across a blackboard, by the way. I love Minnie so this is a bonus, except for that noise coming out of her mouth. (Don't worry, Minnie, I bought your CD, so I know the truth). Meanwhile, back to Famke Janssen, who is much more memorable than whoever that good-girl Bond girl was, in this film. Sean Bean got some bad reviews for his role in this film, but I think he's just fine as a cretin. Meanwhile back to Famke Janssen.

Bond's fight to save London from being Electromagnetically Pulsed back to the Stone Age ends with the usual bright orange bang, which only goes to prove that real explosions are much more fun than electromagnetic pulses anyway. And Bond gets to walk away from all the mayhem with the good-girl on his arm secure in the knowledge that he has made no emotional commitments to anything. Thus, this film cannot rank as high as On Her Majesty's Secret Service, or Casino Royale, even in its most terrific moments, and there are many. But we need eighteen-or-so formulaic Bond films that do their job well, so that the bold experiments can stand out all the more.

As trad Bond outings go, this is a winner. Alan Cumming becomes gradually less annoying every time I watch his performance as a Russian computer nerd, meanwhile back to Famke Janssen, and Pierce Brosnan is too perfect as Bond James Bond. But then, too perfect is still perfect, though that's not quite the same as very unique (Daniel Craig).

Visually Impressive Bond Film.......2007-01-05

For a 2 Disc DVD there really is not that much noteworthy material on the second disc of extras. There is a short on director Martin Campbell where you get to see footage of him in action directing scenes from the film. There are also some deleted scenes with introductions by director Martin Campbell which are somewhat interesting but they are minor in nature. Actually there was one scene with Bond and CIA agent Wade in the car in Petersburg that could have remained in the film that would have helped the transition into the next scene. The making of GOLDENEYE feature was a hodgepodge of footage slapped together and it was not narrated. I was disappointed with this disc.

GOLDENEYE is Pierce Brosnan's first film as James Bond. I think many of the older Bond fans expected a performance in the vein of Roger Moore. Surprisingly, Brosnan seems more like a hybrid of Sean Connery, combing his own instinctive talents with the best elements that Connery brought to the role. Brosnan possesses intelligence, wit, charm and dedication and delivers these with no-nonsense passion and drive. However, Brosnan's physical appearance does look lightweight especially when compared to his beefed up physique in TOMORROW NEVER DIES. Martin Campbell's direction is on target. The overall plot is weak and the film's strong points are its vignettes of very well staged scenes strewn together. Over ten years later with CASINO ROYALE Martin Campbell was given that outstanding script based on Ian Fleming's novel to fulfill what he was trying to achieve here in GOLDENEYE. However, GOLDENEYE is a great looking film beautifully filmed by Phil Meheux for mood, atmosphere and action. Some of the film's high points are the miniatures by Derek Meddings. This is probably Derek Meddings' best work in the series. Production Designer Peter Lamont shows greater depths with each Bond film he works on. This is some of his best work since OCTOPUSSY and the massive underground mine he designed for A VIEW TO A KILL. The return of the Aston Martin DB5 is a very welcome sight. Eric Serra's original if controversial score is good in retrospect complementing the work of Meheux and Lamont. Serra's interpretation of "The James Bond Theme" over the opening gun barrel trademark is powerful and very innovative. Serra's contribution to this film seems more impressive with time and seems akin to David Arnold's score for CASINO ROYALE. This is an interesting Bond film and certainly revitalized the series.

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GoldenEye.......2007-08-28

Still entertaining if you feel like some fast-moving nuttiness .......2007-08-28

Blah!! Blah!! Blah!!.......2007-07-10

Great, GREAT, Film.......2007-06-24

I can only give it a 3 of 5.......2007-06-14

I thought it was a very silly plot, and really, really disliked the Russian hacker.

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GoldenEye.......2007-08-28

Still entertaining if you feel like some fast-moving nuttiness .......2007-08-28

Blah!! Blah!! Blah!!.......2007-07-10

Great, GREAT, Film.......2007-06-24

I can only give it a 3 of 5.......2007-06-14

I thought it was a very sill