Martin Campbell is a director best known for his work on major action franchises, including two James Bond films (GoldenEye and Casino Royale) and the superhero adaptation Green Lantern. I have reviewed 3 of his films on the site so far.
Rating: 3.5★
Ask me to picture James Bond, and, sacrilege though it surely is with Connery and Moore both in the room, I don't reach for either of them. I see Pierce Brosnan, tuxedo immaculate, Walther in hand, in GoldenEye. That image is lodged somewhere deep, and after rewatching it
Rating: 3.5★
By 2006, the Bond franchise had well and truly lost the plot. The Brosnan years had drifted into self-parody, and Die Another Day, with its invisible car and that excruciating CGI surfing sequence, was the nadir of a series that had stopped taking itself seriously some time before that.
Genre Drama
★★½ — Beyond Borders (2003)
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