The difficult for Brosnan and director Martin Campbell is that we are looking for more from the thrills and spills genre now than when Dr No could survive on a smile and a nod.

There’s a fair bit to enjoy here, although perhaps it’s best experienced on TV over Christmas in a Quality Street stupor.

With a dynamite opening reel that showcases the series renewed vigor, GoldenEye is two hours of well-executed thrills, high-tech mayhem and one-of-a-kind comedy.

This new era of Brosnan films became a little campy as time went on, but Goldeneye stands out among the rest.