Michael Boriskin
Pianist
JN Entertainment
'GoldenEye'
Mon:, Dec. 4, 1
4 p.m.
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Rated PG-13
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Tues., Dec. 5, 1995
8 p.m.
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he latest in the long series
of James Bond adventure
movies, GoldenEye, could
appropriately be subtitled
"The Return of the Magnificent
007." Pierce Brosnan, whom I for-
merly thought of as Wimpington
Steele, a man suffering from ter-
minal dapperness, has single-
handedly resurrected the Bond
mystique.
Perhaps it's that his 42-year-
old physique and preternatural
handsomeness now carry some
worldly weight. Most assuredly,
Brosnan has stepped into Bond's
shoes and walked off with them.
If it's a given that Sean Connery
personified Bond, then Brosnan
is his fortunate son.
Brosnan's Bond has a harsher
attitude, a knowledge of self, that
is psychologically healthier for
him and palpable on the screen.
He understands his predatory na-
ture. His double-entendres have
Dick Rockwell is a video
producer I instructor for the
Royal Oak Schools. He has
taught film at OCC and teaches
video at DAFT (Detroit Area
Film and Television) summer
workshops at Cranbrook.
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an acerbic bite, a cruelty, that was
missing before. There's a candor
that permits Bond to operate
without guilt or remorse.
At last, we can discern Bond's
politics and his loyalty to Her
Majesty's Secret Service. What
are Bond's politics in the '90s? "A
sexist, misogynist dinosaur," says
the new female "M."
Moreover, the GoldenEye vil-
lain, a betrayed Russian Cossack,
actually resonates with complex-
ity grounded in historical
fact. What we have is a
character with a person-
al ideology that has venom
and verisimilitude.
Let's not overlook the stunts.
Besides an eye-popping opening
scene that will leave you breath-
less, the production designers
have picked an amazing array of
scenic vistas to wreak havoc in —
Puerto Rico, Monte Carlo, and St.
Petersburg, Russia. Forget the
World Adventure series. If you
want to see the world, go see
GoldenEye.
Director Martin Campbell has
pumped up the action and pro-
vided nearly nonstop thrills — by
land, by air and sea. Might I also
mention the other stunts — the
sexy, but PG-13 rated, encoun-
ters? You need a black belt now,
or a degree in Kung Fu, to even
kiss Bond. I haven't seen so many
bites, kicks, leg scissors, licks and
scratches since my last dinner
party at Richard Simmons' house.
And speaking of fights, Gold-
enEye contains the best hand-to-
hand combat scene since the
Pullman car fight between Sean
Connery and Robert Shaw in
From Russia With Love. Here,
once again, Brosnan proves his
mettle.
In high school, I read
all the Ian Fleming nov-
els and in a senior speech
predicted that James Bond
would live on, just as Tarzan had
continued after his creator's
death. Unfortunately, during the
last few Bond films, too-tired
Roger Moore or too-serious Tim-
othy Dalton walked through cook-
ie-cutter plots that were listless
and derivative.
But GoldenEye is a rejuvenat-
ed Bond. The formula still works:
suave secret agent with a license
to kill, gorgeous femmes fatales,
and sinister super villains pitted
against one another in a game
with global consequences. 3 112
out of 4 bagels.
—Dick Rockwell
'Nick of Time'
Rated R
assassinate the governor of Cal-
ifornia (Marsha Mason).
What happened to the good old
days when the villains did their
own handiwork? The plot com-
plication of picking an innocent
man to perform horrendous
ought to, but with results that
will force you to reconsider
xtreme closeups of the in-
whether you could make it as an
terior of a ticking clock. Mi-
action hero. Think again.
croscopic details of bullets
Nick of Time's release, coin-
loaded into the chamber of
ciding with the Yitzhak Rabin as-
a handgun. Clocks ticking.
sassination, may seem
Chambers clicking. Time
coincidental, but Holly-
and terrorism in a dead-
wood has a history of mir-
ly ballet.
roring such events. The
From this opening ti-
Manchurian Candidate
tle sequence to its terri-
predated the Kennedy as-
fying conclusion, Nick of
sassination and The China
Time director John Bad-
Syndrome predated the
ham's new action-
Three Mile Island incident.
thriller propels the view-
But Nick of Time is
er through an electrify-
much more an entertain-
ing 90 minutes in real
ment than an investigation
time. Shot documentary
into the mind and politics
style using multiple cam-
of an assassination.
eras, harsh natural light-
Depp's predicament is
ing and actors who look
made all the more surre-
like real people, the film catches deeds works due to Johnny is quite al and horrifying by the
aDEPPt in
the viewer up in the plight of a Depp's solid performance
casting of Christopher
man (Johnny Depp) and his and the agonizingly real director John Walken as his nemesis, a
Badham's
real-
daughter who are in the wrong time frame the film ticks
time suspense harrowing presence who
place at the wrong
off, second by second.
shadows and threatens
thriller.
time.
A race against
Depp throughout the or-
Moms
Like Cary Grant in
time; a moral dilem-
deal, goading him on and
Hitchcock's The Man
ma. I found myself asking: constantly reminding him of his
Who Knew Too Much, Depp plays What would I do next under sim- daughter's jeopardy.
a man forced to act against his ilar circumstances, however un-
The cinematography is superb,
will. To appease political terror- likely they might be. You'll be from the opening sequence in a
ists and save the life of his 6-year- surprised at how often Depp re- heavenly lit Grand Central Sta-
old daughter, he must sponds exactly as you think he tion to the labyrinthine entrails
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