Nerds That Geek Movie Review: ‘GoldenEye’

Written by Shae Rufe

​So, if you count up all the girls Bond has been with... it would be a lot. Look, I'm just saying that man needs to just pick a girl and be done with it. Well, Bond is back, and he's got a new girl on his arm. This time the revenge plot is a little more... less Bond revenge and more 006. We've been over this, right? How some other agent is always dying? 

This is no different. In a mission gone wrong, or really right since the bad guys died, 006 is caught in the explosion that kills off their baddie. Fast forward some years and we are back to dealing with was/is left of the KGB. Which, as far as easy target baddies go, isn't terrible.

Bond is following Xenia, a member of the Janus Syndicate, when she murders a Canadian Admiral. With the help of an associate, Xenia steals a fancy helicopter (it can withstand EMPs) and goes to steal something... more valuable. The GoldenEye disk. This controls the GoldenEye weapons satellite, which is kind of bad for bad guys to have. Natalya is the only survivor of the attack, and she's soon betrayed to Janus. This pretty girl is going to need some help to escape.

Bond ends up in Russia around the same time. He's arranged a meeting with Janus, and Xenia is sent to bring him to the man. Or kill him, which she tries to do and fails. Upon meeting Janus, he finds that this crime boss is really the former 006. He plans to get revenge for pretty much everything that has ever happened in his life by using the satellite to completely destroy the Bank of England well... in the process, England too.

And 007 can't have that. So, he and Natalya escape, get captured, escape some more, get captured again, and then defy death. They finally end up at the Satellite's control center in central Cuba. Natalya and Bond plan to disable and destroy it. Xenia meets a fitting end as she tries to kill our master spy. And finally, Bond sends an order to the satellite to re-enter the atmosphere, blowing the sucker up before promptly killing Janus. In the end, Bond and Natalya are still together and the world is saved... for now.

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