Year of Release: 1995

Starring:

Pierce Brosnan as James Bond 007

Sean Bean as the villain Alec Trevalyan

Izabella Scorupco as Natalya Simonova

Famke Janssen as Xenia Onatopp

Music by: Eric Serra

Title song performed by: Tina Turner

Written by: Jeffrey Cain and Bruce Feirstein from a story by Michael France

Produced by: Michael G. Wilson & Barbara Broccoli

Directed by: Martin Campbell

James Bond and fellow agent 006, Alec Trevalyan break into a Soviet chemical weapons facility at Archangel. Trevalyan is killed in front of Bond, but Bond manages to destroy the facility and escape.

Nine years later, at a casino in Monte Carlo Bond meets Xenia Onatopp - a beautiful woman who, he discovers, is probably a member of the Janus Crime Syndicate, based in St. Petersberg, Russia. The head of Janus is a Cossack who were traitors to their country in the Second World War.

Onatopp is friendly with a Canadian admiral who is in Monte Carlo to view a demonstration of a revolutionary new helicopter which is hardened against all forms of electromagnetic jamming or radiation. Onatopp kills the admiral and steals his security pass to gain access to the demonstration. She steals the helicopter and uses it later to take General Ouromov (Head of the Russian Space Division) to a satellite control station at Severnaya. There they kill the station staff and steal the control codes for the two highly secret GoldenEye satellites, which use nuclear explosions to create an electromagnetic pulse that can disable and destroy all of the electrical devices in the given area they choose to fire at. Ouromov uses one of the satellites to blow up the Severnaya station to cover his tracks - escaping in the protected helicopter while three MiGs sent to investigate crash, their systems wrecked by the EM pulse. Ouromov is unaware that a woman - Natalya Simonova has escaped after witnessing their crime.

Bond is sent by M to find out what happened. Knowing that Onatopp is somehow involved, he ensures that he comes to the attention of the Janus Syndicate by using the services of an old adversary who was in the KGB, Valentin Zukovsky. When Bond gets to meet with the head of Janus he is shocked to discover that it is run by Alec Trevalyan - his former colleague 006. Trevalyan is bitter about the way his parents were treated by the British (they were Cossacks returned to Stalin after World War Two) and he intends to electronically steal billions of pounds from London's financial markets and then cover his tracks using GoldenEye to wipe all records of the transactions.

After a tense moment where Bond is captured with Natalya, who has found her way to St. Petersburg and was promptly captured by Janus, they both escape from the cell where they are being interrogated by the Russian Defence Minister. Ouromov chases after them and recaptures Natalya. Bond chases them through the streets of St. Petersburg in a tank and then onto Janus' amoured train where he confronts Trevalyan again, Ouromov is shot and Xenia and Trevalyan make their escape. Natalya uses the Janus computer to find out where the syndicate will control the GoldenEye satellite from.

Bond and Natalya follow them to Cuba, where the control station is located and blow up the installation before Trevalyan can transmit the firing signal, Trevalyan is killed in a bloody fight with Bond.

'One rises to meet a challenge' Bond tells Xenia Onatopp in the casino

When he buys her a drink, he asks, 'How do you take it?' 'Straight up, with a twist' Xenia replies!

Zukovsky hears the click of Bond's gun cocking and, without turning, says, 'Walther PPK, seven point six five millimetre. Only three men I know use such a gun: I believe I've killed two of them.'

Trevalyan: 'England is about to learn the cost of betrayal - inflation adjusted for 1945'

Natalya Simonova played by Izabella Scorupco

  Miss Moneypenny played by Samantha Bond

Alec Trevalyan played by Sean Bean

  General Ouromov played by Gottfried John

  Xenia Onatopp played by Famke Janssen

 Boris Grishenko played by Alan Cumming

Trevalyan makes reference to Bond's parents dying in a climbing accident - this is taken from Ian Fleming's novels and is the first time it is mentioned in any of the films

Bond drives an Aston Martin DB5 in the film, although its number plate is two digits lower from that used in Goldfinger and Thunderball

The headquarters of the Secrtet Intelligence Service in this film is the actual SIS building in Vauxhall, London and is featured again in The World is Not Enough

Joe Don Baker who plays the Felix Leiter replacement Jack Wade, played the villainous Brad Whitaker in The Living Daylights

Co-producer Michael G. Wilson is sitting at the conference table in St. Petersburg when Mishkin is confronting Ouromov. Wilson is the man with the moustache sitting on Ouromov's left

Goldeneye was the name of Ian Fleming's house in Jamaica

Watch the cards carefully at the Monte Carlo casino. Xenia's first hand when Bond arrives is two blanks and a 7 - 007. Bond's later winning hand is two picture cards and a 6 - in baccarat 006

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James Bond will return in:

Tomorrow Never Dies