GOLDENEYE: DVD

SYNOPSIS:
James Bond (Pierce Brosnan) gets mixed up with stolen weapons in Russia and the renegade activities of former 00 colleague Alec Trevelyan (Sean Bean). The women fare better here than ever, with heroine Natalya Simonova (Izabella Scorupco) playing a pro-active part in the plot and Xenia Onatopp (Famke Janssen) registering as one of Bond's most formidable adversaries.

After the failure of Licence To Kill in 1989, there were doubts that James Bond would ever return to the big screen. Six years elapsed before Goldeneye was made - double the longest waiting time between any previous film in the series.

Timothy Dalton was replaced by Pierce Brosnan (whose Remington Steele TV commitments had prevented him taking the role almost a decade earlier) and old-fashioned values were given a major overhaul. M was now a woman (Judi Dench) who wasn't afraid to call her top gun "a sexist dinosaur". It was like a public confessional and an appeal to audiences to accept the new man on the job. It worked spectacularly and remains one of the most successful of all 007 adventures.

Brosnan slips into the role comfortably.