Uploaded February 2015 | Updated September 2026, 2 hours ago
Video games based on movies are usually terrible. Movies based on video games are usually terrible. This is a universal truth, kind of like “Batman is better than Superman” or “Keanu Reeves has only one facial expression.” Okay, maybe it’s not quite that concrete of a rule, but it’s pretty damn close. As a movie, Goldeneye was good. Better than good, actually. It revived James Bond for the 90s, and brought the Bond franchise back to relevance after several less-than-stellar movies during the 80s. It’s too bad that Brosnan’s other Bond films weren’t anywhere close to as good as Goldeneye, but at the time we didn’t know the pain of Tomorrow Never Dies or Die Another Day. All we knew was that Bond was back, Xenya Onatop could kill a man with her thighs, and Sean Bean dies because that’s what Sean Bean does. Goldeneye as a film was rock solid entertainment. Goldeneye as a game? Well, it was beyond entertaining. It was a revelation.
Video games based on movies are usually terrible. Movies based on video games are usually terrible. This is a universal truth, kind of like “Batman is better than Superman” or “Keanu Reeves has only one facial expression.” Okay, maybe it’s not quite that concrete of a rule, but it’s pretty damn close. As a movie, Goldeneye was good. Better than good, actually. It revived James Bond for the 90s, and brought the Bond franchise back to relevance after several less-than-stellar movies during the 80s. It’s too bad that Brosnan’s other Bond films weren’t anywhere close to as good as Goldeneye, but at the time we didn’t know the pain of Tomorrow Never Dies or Die Another Day. All we knew was that Bond was back, Xenya Onatop could kill a man with her thighs, and Sean Bean dies because that’s what Sean Bean does. Goldeneye as a film was rock solid entertainment. Goldeneye as a game? Well, it was beyond entertaining. It was a revelation.
