Bond investigates a powerful satellite weapon called , which can disable electronics via a nuclear electromagnetic pulse (EMP). The weapon is in the hands of a rogue former MI6 agent, Alec Trevelyan (Sean Bean), also known as 006 .

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Here is everything you need to know about the full movie that reintroduced 007 to the world. Before GoldenEye , James Bond was in trouble. Legal wars between studios had created a six-year gap since the lackluster Licence to Kill (1989). The Cold War was over, and many believed the character of Bond—a womanizing relic of the 1960s—was obsolete.

If you were to ask a group of movie fans, "Who is the best James Bond?" you’d likely start a fistfight. But if you ask, "Which Bond movie saved the franchise and defined the 1990s?" the answer is clear: GoldenEye .