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19 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 80Washington PostHal HinsonWashington PostHal HinsonAnd yet, Goldeneye proves the character's viability as a pop icon: It isn't a great movie, but it's great, preposterous fun.
- 80Chicago ReaderJonathan RosenbaumChicago ReaderJonathan RosenbaumThere's something a mite pathetic about our culture still clinging to 007, but it's hard to deny that this is one of the most entertaining entries in the Bond cycle, which started with "Dr. No" (1962).
- 80EmpireEmpireThis is the best bond movie since "On Her Majesty's Secret Service".
- 75Chicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertChicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertThis is the first Bond film that is self-aware, that has lost its innocence and the simplicity of its world view, and has some understanding of the absurdity and sadness of its hero.
- 75ReelViewsJames BerardinelliReelViewsJames BerardinelliAlso, there's more action in Goldeneye than in previous 007 entries -- enough to keep a ninety-minute film moving at a frantic pace. Unfortunately, this movie isn't ninety-minutes long -- it's one-hundred thirty, which means that fully one-quarter of Goldeneye is momentum-killing padding.
- 75San Francisco ChroniclePeter StackSan Francisco ChroniclePeter StackWhen the action is extreme, GoldenEye is supercharged with spectacular, thundering, brain-numbing fun.
- 75San Francisco ExaminerSan Francisco ExaminerIt is both the best-looking James Bond film and the best-looking James Bond.
- 70Washington PostDesson ThomsonWashington PostDesson ThomsonNew Bond man Brosnan can't be faulted for much. He's always been generically sexy, a sort of programmed cover boy. In this new venture, he's appropriately handsome, British-accented and suave.
- 58Entertainment WeeklyOwen GleibermanEntertainment WeeklyOwen GleibermanStill, just about everything in Goldeneye, from its rote nuclear-weapon-in-space plot to the recitation of lines that sound like they're being read off stone tablets (''Shaken, not stirred!''), has been served up with a thirdhand generic competence that's more wearying than it is exhilarating.
- 50The New York TimesJanet MaslinThe New York TimesJanet MaslinMr. Brosnan, as the best-moussed Bond ever to play baccarat in Monte Carlo, makes the character's latest personality transplant viable (not to mention smashingly photogenic), but the series still suffers the blahs.