GoldenEye™

GoldenEye™ (also GOLDENEYE). Martin Campbell, dir. Pierce Brosnan, star. Sean Bean, Izabella Scorupco, Famke Janssen and Joe Don Baker, featured. UK/USA: United Artists-MGM, 1995.

James Bond movie making explicit part of Bondian appeal: "boys with toys." Note Goldeneye as a very high-tech. weapon that destroys high-tech. electronics; note also final sequence where Bond almost literally throws a monkey wrench (British "spanner") into an oldfashioned toothed wheel and chain mechanism to ensure destruction of highly computerized Goldeneye. Boris, the Russian computer hacker, is a major villain (cf. and contrast Matthew Broderick character in WarGames [sic]: a computer hacker who endangers and then helps save the world). (RDE, 18/11/95)