007 # 17 Goldeneye - Special Edition

Action, Adventure, Thriller

Joe Don Baker	Jack Wade
Sean Bean	Alec Trevelyan
Samantha Bond
Pierce Brosnan	James Bond
Robbie Coltrane	Valentin Dmitrovich Zukovsky
Alan Cumming	Boris Grishenko
Judi Dench	M
Pavel Douglas
Serena Gordon
Constantine Gregory
Famke Janssen	Xenia Onatopp
Izabella Scorupco	Natalya Fyodorovna Simonova
Gottfried John	Gen. Arkady Grigorovich Ourumov
Tchéky Karyo	Defense Minister Dmitri Mishkin

Director	Martin Campbell
Producer	Michael G. Wilson; Barbara Broccoli; Tom Pevsner
Writer	Bruce Feirstein; Michael France; Jeffrey Caine; Ian Fleming

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